Pamela McGee
was scheduled for an abortion in 1987. McGee was a single, 24-year-old professional
basketball player, and could not take maternity leave. She prayed for guidance, "I prayed and prayed and prayed and felt like I heard a voice from
God," McGee said. "He was telling me, 'This is your gift.' " Then she
went to a Church in and the pastor delivered a
sermon about not aborting one's blessings. O.K., God, McGee thought.
She cancelled the abortion and on Jan. 19, 1988, gave birth to a boy with extraordinary abilities.JaVale McGee, her son, is 7 feet, with a 7'6½" wingspan and a 31½-inch vertical leap.
Basketball was in JaVale's family—his father, George Montgomery, was a player in Illinois; and Pamela starred at USC alongside her twin sister, Paula, and Cheryl Miller.
She told her son when at church together; "For me," she told her son, "you've been such a blessing." (Pictured Pamela and Javale)
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