An NBA star's family fought for years to help their brother. Now they want to help others.

As a child, Eli Robinson liked his noodles covered in ketchup. So his younger brother Duncan did, too.

"Disgusting in hindsight," Duncan Robinson said. "But there was legitimately a three-month stretch where I tried to convince myself and others that I actually liked that, because that’s what he did. I just wanted to be him."

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It was why when Eli became interested in animals, that passion became Duncan’s, too.

“Steve Irwin,” Duncan said, “was like our LeBron James .”

In grade school, their shared obsession turned toward basketball.

Born three-and-a-half years apart, the brothers overlapped one season as high school teammates near their home in New Castle, New Hampshire.

As Duncan traveled an unlikely route from