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Wessler: Anthony Parker's perspective on life began at Bradley

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  • By Kirk Wessler
    Journal Star sports editor Follow @@kirkwessler


    ST. LOUIS -- Anthony Parker remembers the last major rebuilding project in Bradley basketball.
    Bradley was coming off five successive losing seasons, with only 26 wins in the last three. Coach Jim Molinari was relying on seven freshmen, who had started to show improvement toward the end of the year, and Parker was a skinny high school senior at Naperville Central.
    Molinari was the first to offer Parker a scholarship, and Bradley was the only school the kid visited.