Morley, Mo. — It’s 2:30 p.m. on a sunny Wednesday in the small hometown of Otto Porter Jr., and the legendary coach who tutored both Porter and his father is asleep in his office.

Ronnie Cookson owns a seed shop about three miles down the street from Scott County Central High School in Morley, Mo., population 696, and he wakes up to tell stories of the Porters. Every story seems more unbelievable than the next for a guy who is about to be one of the first picks in the NBA draft on Thursday.

One of Cookson's favorites is how John Thompson III got Porter to Georgetown, or rather how Cookson’s wife got Port...

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