Ama Sow moved to Pennsylvania to fulfill his basketball dreams. But when his school closed unexpectedly, he was left penniless and homeless. That's when a local family opened their home to him.

So when the 6-7 forward-center went undrafted by an NBA team in 1997, he set out to play ... Aliyah: African-American Hoopsters in the Holy Land,” Watson is far from the only black basketball ...