The other players on the sun-drenched court at Benny Babcock Park have six to 10 inches on Gretel Martinez. Some of them must be almost double her weight, 110 pounds soaking wet, which she is right now in the 110-degree heat of a Miami summer. The only other girls around are chatting on benches in the shade. But Martinez has something that none of the boys do: a mother watching over her. Mom is Marina Medina, always ready to unleash her "big mouth" on any competitor who decides that the quickest route to the basket is over, not around, the S-foot-6 Martinez. "When she was little and she was beating them badly they used to get mad and hit her," Medina says. "But later they realized she was better than they were, and now they respect her."
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