I approached him at halftime, while his son went to the concession stand. If Wagner didn't want to talk, he didn't act like it. He was soft-spoken and polite, shy even. He told me he's on the court almost every day, alone in empty gyms and or playing in pickup games that have become profoundly meaningful to him. His skills, his dead-on radar for the basket, haven't left, but he did say he needs time to feel right before he thinks about coming back. He needs to be confident that his body can do what it once did without question. "My goal is to be out there playing basketball someday," he says. "No one's ever had the problems I've had and come back. I'm getting there. This is the best I've ever felt in a long, long time. People think I'm out there just sitting around, but I'm not."