All the work and the disappointment and getting out of Roseland on the South Side to Peoria, where there were cheers but nobody knew his name, and the passport stamps in Hungary and Germany and Greece and Turkey and the bus rides from Fort Wayne, Portland, Me., and then from Hoffman Estates, and then it seemed like maybe it was all over for Walt Lemon Jr., 26 years old and a one-game playoff elimination loss in New York this week. So now what?
"When we lost to Westchester in New York, I was pretty out of it because my season was over in the G-league," Lemon related.