![]() I sold it."įrancis always had basketball, but not in the way that others did. "Crack devastated our entire community," Francis said. His father was in jail, and his mother had died. "Four years before I was on that plane with Hakeem telling me we're going shopping for cashmere suits together - four years before I was about to go play against Gary Payton - I was on the corner of Maple Ave in Takoma Park, Maryland, selling drugs outside the Chinese joint," Francis said.įrancis said that he grew up in Washington, D.C., during the crack epidemic of the 1980s. □: /AmrG4p3sOf- The Players' Tribune March 8, 2018 When was 10 years old, he got his first job as a phone boy. He told a story of taking a plane ride to a game with teammate and future Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon when Francis was a rookie. ![]() In a story for The Players' Tribune, Francis opened up about his journey. ![]() Former Houston Rockets star Steve Francis is as surprised as anyone else that he made it to the NBA, saying that a few short years before being drafted, he was selling crack on a street corner. ![]()
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