one-on-one, they would sneak a black student into the gym to test Reed. "Everybody wanted to play the white kid," remembered one teammate.

One after another came in and lost to Reed, and his teammates soon found humor in seeing him win time and time again.

In an overall, official sense, no, there's no racial or ethnic differentiation or discrimination. Pick your preferred cliche: If you can play, you can play; game respects game; and so on. But as basketball has changed from a sport played primarily by white people to a sport played primarily by black people over the last few decades, and as the NBA has become a predominantly black league — 77 percent of all NBA players last season were African-American, according to The Institute for DiversityPensacola-area health officials held a press conference Thursday about a presumed positive case of the new coronavirus in Santa Rosa County, but they provided very little new information about the impacted individual and who he may have been in contact with.

On Thursday morning, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that an elderly man with a history of international travel and pre-existing health conditions was being tested for COVID-19.

DeSantis said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were verifying local test results, but there was a high degree of confidence the CDC's test results would come back positive.

"He had been doing international travel," DeSantis said at the press conference at the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office. "He's not in shape to fully answer all the questions, so there's an investigation ongoing,