LOS ANGELES – Brad Leaf remains the No. 7 scorer in Evansville basketball history.
In 1982 he played an NCAA Tournament first-round game against Marquette, which had Glenn “Doc” Rivers. The Aces lost, and Leaf was a fourth-round pick by the Indiana Pacers and wound up playing in Israel, when Euro basketball wasn’t such a cushy option, when the 6 o’clock news would tell you never to remove your gas mask.
He spent 18 years there. It was OK.
“When I went over there,” TJ Leaf said Tuesday, “and I’d be walking around, and people would say, ‘Hey, you’re Brad Leaf’s son.