Alvarado credits his success to his New York City outer-borough upbringing. “I got my toughness and my grittiness from Brooklyn,” he says. “I got a lot of my skills playing great opponents from Queens.” Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted the seasons of many college players, in 2021 Alvarado could have returned to Georgia Tech for a fifth year of eligibility. He asked Pastner for $60,000 in name, image, and likeness money—chump change in today’s lucrative college sports economy. But five years ago, NIL rules hadn’t been formally put in place, so Pastner didn’t pay him. Alvarado bet on himself and went into the NBA draft. “Thank…
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