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From NBA glory to homeless shelter
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... Thirty years ago next month, Pace slept in one of Seattle's finest hotels, though he can't remember which one, as a visiting pro basketball player for the Washington Bullets, sharing in an NBA championship won in this city at the expense of the Sonics. [Read] ...
From NBA glory to homeless shelter
BallerBlogger.com —
... Thirty years ago next month, Pace slept in one of Seattle’s finest hotels, though he can’t remember which one, as a visiting pro basketball player for the Washington Bullets, sharing in an NBA championship won in this city at the expense of the Sonics. [Read] ...
Conversin' With The Rain
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A day off from Mariners fun left me hoping that the San Antonio/New Orleans game would turn into something worth watching. I kept my eye on the score, wondering if it would start to tighten up, but it never did, and I think I went an entire evening without watching a sporting event of any kind. Instead, I watched last week's 30 Rock, which was, sadly, the season finale. Thanks, writers strike. Dan Raley with a touching piece on former NBAer Joe Pace, who's living in a Seattle homeless shelter. The Times and P-I both preview the Storm season. The team feels it has ...
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Empty the Bench —
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From the NBA to the Depths of Poverty
MVN Outsider —
... a league championship with the Bullets in 1978, and earned a healthy paycheck of $35,000 per year.
After two seasons in the NBA, Pace left the United States to play basketball abroad. He made stops in Italy, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, England, and the Philippines, ultimately ending up in Argentina, where he purchased a convenience store. He lived comfortably, marrying an Argentinian woman and sending some money back to relatives who needed financial assistance.
Then, as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports, things went completely wrong for ...
