Posted on 10/21/2013 12:45:28 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
**FILE** Former Georgetown star Victor Page averaged 15.8 points per game in with the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA Developmental League from 1997-2002. Page currently is serving a 10-year jail sentence in Prince George's County, Md. (Sioux Falls Skyforce)
Victor Page jerked away from the officer.
“Don’t touch me,” he said.
A tattered black patch covered the spot where Page’s right eye used to reside. Gray hair advanced on his temples. The white uniform from the Prince George’s County Correctional Center looked awkward on his long arms and legs. A white uniform means the once-fearless Georgetown guard who led the Big East in scoring during the 1996-97 season works in the jail’s food service operation five days each week.
A few minutes after 8 a.m., Page looked worn out. Older than his 38 years. A haggard, beaten shadow of the dunk-happy man named most valuable player of the 1996 Big East Tournament over teammate Allen Iverson.
The staffers all know inmate No. A53173. An officer at the first metal-detector checkpoint shook his head when he looked at the name scrawled in the visitor’s ledger.
“Victor Page?” the officer said. “He’s a frequent flier here.”
Deep in the maze of locked doors and thick glass, easy smiles on a trio of officers disappeared when Page’s name emerged. The story of the prodigious basketball talent from Washington’s rough Barry Farms neighborhood who couldn’t escape trouble has been told and retold.
The basketball career fizzled years ago, one wasted opportunity after another.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
If he could hit the jump shot..he’d never have made it to college..
For every player who makes the NBA, there are thousands who don’t and have nothing to fall back on.
As my dad use to say many moons ago, Aint no cure for stupid.
Presumably he’ll get out of prison at the age of 48, and who knows where he’ll end up. Will he straighten out? I doubt it.
After parole, maybe he can find work as a pirate.
You might consider changing your tagline for a few days in his honor.
You’re right! I hadn’t even thought of that!
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