Payne joins USC Upstate as assistant coach
Luke Payne had a great life.
The former Spartanburg High School and USC Upstate basketball standout was playing professional basketball in Australia. The blonde bombshell spent some of his off time on the western-shore beaches of a continent that averages 70 degrees year-round. His biggest worry, it seemed, was a kangaroo jumping out in front of his vehicle.
“I couldn’t do that forever,” Payne said.
Sad, but true.
And he was good, too.
Payne, playing for the Lakeside Lightning, led the Western Australia State Basketball League in 2009 with more than 25 points per game and was still one of the best players on one of the best teams when the 2012 season, his fourth, ended just short of a championship.
Click here to read the full article by Todd Shanesy at the USC Upstate website.
Photo by Helen Theoharakis (Hoop Shots)
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