Jamont Gordon-(Dan Phillips)

AT FIRST GLANCE - IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE JAMONT GORDON HAS MUCH TO SMILE ABOUT THESE DAYS.

AFTER ALL - THE FORMER GLENCLIFF STAR WAS SNUBBED IN LAST WEEK'S N-B-A DRAFT.

BUT AS FOX 17'S DAN PHILLIPS REPORTS - GORDON ISN'T LETTING THE DISAPPOINTMENT DE-RAIL HIS DREAMS!

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE HAPPIEST DAY OF JAMONT GORDON'S LIFE...

((Nat Sound: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome the NBA Draft."))

HEARING N-B-A COMMISSIONER DAVID STERN CALL HIS NAME.

((Stern quick nats "With the 23rd pick // With the 34th pick // with the 42nd pick."))

BUT STERN NEVER ANNOUNCED GORDON AND NEITHER DID DEPUTY COMMISSIONER ADAM SILVER WITH THE FINAL SELECTION...

((Nat Sound: "With the 60th pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, the Boston Celtics select Semih Erden."))

HAPPINESS TURNED TO HEARTACHE FOR JAMONT...OR DID IT?

((Jamont Gordon: "I really didn't get too upset about it. After Indiana didn't take me with the 42nd pick, I was like, 'Man, I don't think it's going to happen tonight."))

AND ALTHOUGH THE 1ST TEAM ALL-SEC GUARD WASN'T SELECTED... HE DIDN'T GET MAD...OR SAD...BUT HE KNOWS HE BELONGS...

((Jamont Gordon: "I played against a lot of those guys that were picked before me. My stats, my numbers, the multiple things I can do on the basketball court with a ball, I really feel disrespected. I think I can play with the best of them."))

GORDON WILL GET HIS CHANCE STARTING SUNDAY...WHEN THE FORMER GLENCLIFF MR. BASKETBALL JOINS THE PHILADELPHIA 76ERS SUMMER LEAGUE TEAM...SIXERS FOES WILL FIND ONE SERIOUSLY MOTIVATED MAN...

((Jamont Gordon: "Can't wait to go down there and play. I'm hungry. I'm ready to play."))

SHOWING THE WORLD, AND HIS BIGGEST FAN---HIS MOTHER--- THAT HE CAN OVERCOME ADVERSITY...

((Jamont Gordon: "It's another roadblock. But I'm going to get over this roadblock also."))

JUST ANOTHER HURDLE FOR JAMONT TO JUMP OVER ON THE WAY TO HIS N-B-A DREAM. DAN PHILLIPS, FOX 17 SPORTS.

GOOD LUCK TO JAMONT AS HE HEADS OFF TO LAS VEGAS FOR NBA SUMMER LEAGUE GAMES.

THEY'LL TAKE PLACE OVER THE NEXT THREE WEEKS - THEN JAMONT HOPES TO LAND A SPOT IN SIXERS TRAINING CAMP!
Jamont Gordon-(Dan Phillips)