Victor Page
Victor Page (born February 19, 1975[1]) is an American former basketball player who once played for the Georgetown University Hoyas and Sioux Falls Skyforce.
Biography
Early years
Page grew up in the Barry Farm Community in Southeast D.C.. Page was a standout player at McKinley Tech High School, where he led the team to win the DC Championship during his senior year. He was named Washington Post All Met Basketball Player of the Year.
Basketball career
Victor Page (jersey #44) was a member of the 1995-96 Hoyas team that advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and in 1996-97 he led the Big East in scoring. After that season, Page entered the 1997 NBA Draft.
Page went 11th in the CBA draft; he briefly ascended to the NBA in September 1997 for the Minnesota Timberwolves' training camp roster, but was cut a few weeks later.
He returned to the CBA to play for the Sioux Falls Skyforce. Page remains one of the greatest players in Skyforce history; he left the team in 2001 as its all-time leading scorer (since passed). His jersey, #20, was retired in 2004.
Recent years
In 2003, Page was shot in the right eye while in his childhood neighborhood. Page lost the eye completely and now wears an eyepatch.
In September 2013, Page was sentenced to ten years in jail for second-degree assault.[2][3]
Footnotes
See also
- "Without Bad Luck, He'd Have No Luck at All", New York Times, John Branch, p. 24, March 24, 2006 (requires registration)
- "Victor Page" at Georgetown Basketball History
