The physical distance between George Reese and a few dozen high school boys was only a matter of feet. It just took quite a few years to cross them. Tuesday morning at Independence, the former Ohio State men’s basketball player was back at his alma mater and seated at one of four chairs on the floor inside the auditorium. Staring back at him were members of the school’s freshmen class, clustered into about a dozen rows with hand-written letters denoting the seat locations. They were seats Reese once sat in. The journey from those yellow fold-out chairs in the audience to the navy blue ones on the floor stretched back nearly 30 years, but after a basketball career that took him to a Final Four with Ohio State while playing for the Buckeyes from 1998-2000 and around the world as a professional, it had brought him back to a time…
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