Growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania during the 1990s didn’t offer much in terms of sports. Our schools didn’t win state titles and few major prospects came through our ranks. In 1994, though, a basketball player for Solanco High School named Johnny Miller was throwing down dunks and getting major attention from college scouts. My family went to one of their games and I scored his auto (mid-game, if I remember correctly) along with the auto of Jeff, a screwball team manager who intercepted my program as it was being returned to me, and some foreigner named Šarūnas Jasikevičius.
Although Miller played at Temple and Clemson, injuries prevented his full stardom and he never played pro ball. That said, a few years later I was watching Team USA play Lithuania in the semifinal game of the 2000 Olympics and some guy with a familiar name put up 27 points and nearly took down a Team USA squad that included future NBA Hall-of-Famers Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Gary Payton, Alonzo Mourning, Jason Kidd, Tim Hardaway, and Vince Carter. That guy was Šarūnas Jasikevičius, and he later went on to play for the Pacers and Golden State Warriors.
I wonder whatever happened to Jeff?
