NBA stars, draft prospects work out at Attack Athletics

You can tell when it's getting close to 11 a.m. on any given summer weekday.

That's when the sweetest cars (with the flashiest rims money can buy) start to roll through the electronically controlled gates at 2641 Harrison on Chicago's near West Side.

Though the address isn't one usually favored by multi-millionaires - there's a homeless person sitting in a chair and several other homeless men stationed outside the soup kitchen a block away _ Dwyane Wade, Juwan Howard, Antoine Walker, Quentin Richardson and other NBA royalty always show up on time for their daily workout at Tim Grover's gleaming Attack Athletics facility.

On certain afternoons, particularly the ones a few weeks ago when LeBron James and Chris Paul showed up to run while they were in town, there is more than $1 billion worth of ballplayers playing on Attack's main court.

"You never know who's going to be here," Glover said.

"One day, Shannon Brown was playing the '1,' Antoine was playing the '2,' Andre (Brown) was at the '3,' I was at the '4' and Sun was at the '5,'" said former Illinois center Shaun Pruitt. "Not many guards (were) here that day."

"Sun," by the way, is China's 7-foot-9, 380-pound Sun Ming Ming, the co-star of "Rush Hour 3" who asked to be evaluated by Grover in hopes of developing into an NBA player.

While guests such as James and Paul are welcome to stop by and play, everyone else pays between $1,200 and $15,000 per month to be Glover's client.

Wade, Howard, Walker, Richardson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Andre Igoudala, Michael Finley, Bobby Simmons, Eddy Curry and a half-dozen other NBA stars are among the clients who retain cubicles in Attack's sumptuous locker rooms.

It's the same locker room that predraft clients such as Shaun Pruitt, O.J. Mayo and Chirs Douglas Roberts also use, though being a veteran has its perks.

They get to park in the secret back lot, and they can use their thumb prints to access the locker room and other important rooms.

Rookies have to park their rides in the front lot. And when they want to get into the locker room, they have to wait for someone to come by and open the door.

But once rookies get in the door, they can take advantage of everything Attack has to offer.

There's everything you can imagine a multimillionaire NBA player might want, including a special game room with six easy chairs, three Samsung flatscreen TVs and PlayStation 3 and XBox360 game consoles.

But on the day before the NBA draft, after a two-hour workout, Pruitt has just one thing on his mind.

The massage table just vacated by Antoine Walker.

"It's here," Pruitt said. "I might as well take advantage of it."