Lloyd Walton knows first-hand what it's like when the cheering stops, when you're 28 and your best years — at least, in an athletic sense — are behind you. He knows what it's like to face the question all professional athletes must answer, sooner or later:
What do I do with the rest of my life?
Luckily for Walton, the point guard on some of Al McGuire's greatest teams at Marquette University, he figured it out. Not that it was easy.
"I was unprepared, and most guys are," he said. "You're going to leave the game at some point.