His musical ability is like his basketball potential: unlimited and unrefined. Drew Gooden can play the piano by ear, something he picked up as a kid listening to his father, Andrew, stroke the ivories. "Since I couldn't read music, I would just listen to a song and play it," says Drew, who spent much of his spare time at Kansas in the recording studio. "It's a gift."

	Drew is looking to make some sweet music in the NBA.

It's not the only gift he picked up from his dad, a 6'3" guard who played college ball at Central Washington and pro hoops in Finland. Dad put the rock in Drew's crib when the doctor told him his son would grow to seven feet, then encouraged his son to play a small man's game in a big man's body. Mission accomplished: It's Gooden's ability to play inside and out that puts him in the top five of this draft.

As for music? "I'm trying to make basketball happen first," he says. "But I might pull a Shaq." Shoot a bit higher, Drew. Ever listen to Shaq Fu -- Da Return? Don't think so.

This article appears in the June 24 issue of ESPN The Magazine.