Celebrities Who Were Secretly Incredible Athletes

HeMahershala Ali: Basketball

Long before all of that fame and success, he was a college basketball player. He went to Saint Mary's College of California on a basketball scholarship. By the end of his time there, he had lost interest in the game. Coincidentally, he wasn't into the politics of it all. His breaking point was when he was threatened to get "shipped off" to the University of Denver. 

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