Rodney Ray Rogers (born June 20, 1971, in Durham, North Carolina) is a retired American basketball player who last played power forward for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers.
Rogers was the fourth and youngest child born to Willie Wadsworth and Estella Rogers in Durham, North Carolina. His father left the family and moved to Texas when Rogers was a toddler, and then died when he was 8. He spent most of his childhood growing up in the McDougald Terrace...
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Rodney Ray Rogers (born June 20, 1971, in Durham, North Carolina) is a retired American basketball player who last played power forward for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers.
Rogers was the fourth and youngest child born to Willie Wadsworth and Estella Rogers in Durham, North Carolina. His father left the family and moved to Texas when Rogers was a toddler, and then died when he was 8. He spent most of his childhood growing up in the McDougald Terrace Housing Project in Durham.
Estella Rogers sustained severe head injuries and required two operations when she was nearly killed in an automobile wreck in 1988. She was in a coma for more than two weeks and then remained hospitalized for three more months. Even after she returned home she still had memory loss and needed extra care. While his mother recovered, Rogers moved in with Nathaniel Brooks, a man who was once his youth league coach, spending his last two seasons at Hillside High School with the Brooks family.
His stepfather, James...
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