Victor Page

Victor Martin Page (born February 19, 1975 ) 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 Barry Farm in Southeast D.C. Page was a standout player at McKinley Tech High School. During his senior season he led the team the DC City Championship game where it lost to DeMatha Catholic. He averaging 31 points per game for the season. He was named Washington Post All DC Metro Basketball Player of the Year. He recorded a career-high 47 points in a single game in the 1993–94 season while at McKinley Tech. After his senior year of high school he spent an additional year at The Winchendon School, a prep school in Winchendon, Massachusetts. In 1996–97, Page led the Big East in scoring and was named in the All-Big East first team.

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 before the start of the season, Page remains one of the greatest players in Skyforce history; he left the team in 2001 as its all-time leading scorer He also played in the 1998 PBA Centennial Cup in the Philippines with the Pop Cola 800s and in the Italian Serie A with Scaligera Basket of Verona in the 1999–00 season, averaging 18.3 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 8 games played in Italy.

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Recent years In 2003, Page was shot in the right eye while in his childhood neighborhood. Page now wears an eyepatch.

In September 2013, Page was sentenced to ten years in jail for second-degree assault.

In June 2019, after being paroled for his previous offense, Page pled guilty to the assault and attempted rape of a 17-year-old girl in Prince George's County, Maryland. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.