<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Rafer Alston can remember the play. It came in the middle of a three-on-one fast break at New York's famed Rucker Park, on a summer night nearly 14 years ago. Alston started skipping down the court, dribbling on his knees, rising quickly before wrapping the ball around the back of a defender and delivering it to one of his teammates. Alston was already well-known on the city's Amateur Athletic Union circuit. But now, his basketball persona was born. "Everyone started calling me 'Skip To My Lou,' " Alston, now 28 and a point guard with the Toronto Raptors, recalled recently. "That nickname's been with me ever since." Through four years at a high school in Queens, where Alston was often overshadowed by another phenom from Brooklyn named Stephon Marbury. Through three years and two junior colleges in California and one tumultuous season at Fresno State.</div> Source
