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Sarah Holmgren remembers asking her then 8-year-old son Chet what he wanted to be when he grew up. He said A pro basketball player, she recalled. There were long odds against that, so my husband, David, and I asked him about a back-up plan. David and I disagree on our memories of this. David remembers him saying he was going to be a pro football player. I remember him saying he was going to be an astronaut, which has worse odds than going pro. When we said that those odds were worse, he remarked with I know, so leave me alone. He s always been laser-focused on his goal.