Sam Dekker is on the phone.



He is calling from Sheboygan.



I find this sort of funny, because Sheboygan sounds like an imaginary town from “Little House on the Prairie.” Pa has to take the coach to Sheboygan to fetch Mary’s medicine. He’ll be back in two weeks, so Albert, you’re the man of the house.



A Sheboygan is a steel object you ride in the snow. Sheboygan is the sound the rim used to make in the wake of a Shaquille O’Neal dunk. Sheboygan is a drink at Marty and Lenny’s, the cheesy dive bar I used to sneak off to as a high schooler. I’ll take two Woo Woos, a White Russian and a Sheboygan.



“It’s my home,” says Dekker. “I love it here.”



Um, oh.



The Los Angeles Clippers’ 24-year-old power forward has a busy June day in Sheboygan, so he can’t talk for long. First, he needs to take his dog Riggins for a walk up the boardwalk along...