At eight a.m., every day save Sunday, he played his three-on-three basketball game, dribbling and shooting on the actual court where the San Antonio Spurs had won multiple NBA titles. He had had that very court ripped up, plank by plank, and relaid here in the office compound of his mega-church, which at one point had been the home stadium of the Dallas Cowboys. His body man, a former Los Angeles Jaguars fullback, Devin Dudley, and security man and former Texas State small forward, Gerald Nutley, were his teammates and they regularly thrashed their opposition, primarily because nobody was willing to hard-foul Pastor Roger during his infrequent drives to the hoop. Pastor Roger was a shoot-first, pass-never point guard whose teammates had better be good rebounders and defenders, because that was the only way they would ever get the ball. When Anderson Cooper from 60 Minutes asked him about his style of play, Pastor Roger described himself as a facilitator, a player who sacrificed his own numbers so that his teammates might thrive.
