Victor Page

Victor Page (born February 19, 1975) is an American former basketball player who once played for the Georgetown University Hoyas and Sioux Falls Skyforce.

Page grew up in Barry Farms 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.

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.

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.

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