Orioles reset: Gunnar Henderson was shattering backboards in basketball before becoming MVP candidate

When Gunnar Henderson was on the court, no backboard was safe.

Before the Orioles’ 22-year-old phenom was manning shortstop at Camden Yards, before he was the consensus No. 1 prospect in baseball, before he heard his name called as the 42nd overall pick in the 2019 MLB draft, Henderson was a three-sport athlete at John T. Morgan Academy in Selma, Alabama.

During the fall, “G,” as many back home call him, was a mobile gunslinger of a quarterback who stayed on the field when the defense...