“Guess what my nickname on the court was, knowing me to be the spiritual person you see me as?” asks Krishna Das mischievously, sipping a densely brewed coffee at Muddy Waters in Burlington.

“The Leaping Angel,” I suggest, caught a bit off guard, and knowing about the former basketball player’s light-heartedness as well as his fiery, true-blue-New-Yorker persona. But I wasn’t even close.... Read more