NEW YORK — Cam Reddish has always been in the gym. Really didn’t have much choice. A mere three days after Reddish was born, his father, Bob — a former college player at VCU still scratching his itch to play competitive ball — pulled up to Finley Gym, home of the legendary Philly pro-am, plopped the newborn baby and his car seat on the bench and commenced to hooping.



“It was my first kid. So, I didn’t know,” he said Thursday with a chuckle, “I should’ve stayed home.”



But all of those afternoons responding to the sound of the whistles, and other days resting on mom’s lap, watching dad play and imagining when it would be his turn, initiated a passion for the game that resulted in Cam Reddish plopping a red Atlanta Hawks cap on his mini-Afro Thursday night and commencing to an NBA career.



Cam fell so hard in love with the game that basketballs, and the gear and sneakers associated with playing it,...