LOUISVILLE, Ky.
Before the jokes about him being an old man, the jokes were that Perry Ellis played like an old man. They said he had a YMCA game. That he was all pump-fakes and spin moves, and they actually, seriously, without-being-sarcastic wondered if this major college basketball player who stood 6 feet 8 could even dunk.
“Yeah,” Ellis says. “I do remember that. I heard a lot of that.”
Not anymore. One of the consequences of a star college basketball player sticking around through his senior year is that he is taken for granted.