MIAMI — He did all right for himself, the “young fat kid from Liberty City.”
That is how Udonis Haslem once described himself growing up in one of the tougher, poorer areas of Miami, one beset with violence and crack and wrong turns inviting you everywhere you looked.
Now, he nears the end of an historic 20-year career with the Miami Heat, and does so without rival or peer as the professional athlete who has meant the most to the soul of the city — born-and-raised and ever-rising. No. 40. U.D.
