Gary Wilkinson (basketball)

Gary Kristopher Wilkinson is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Utah State and has played previously for professional teams in Greece, South Korea, New Zealand, Estonia and Puerto Rico.

Wilkinson was born in Salt Lake City and grew up in South Jordan, Utah. At Bingham High School, Wilkinson was cut from the basketball team and dropped out his senior year he told ESPN The Magazine I really didnt have any goals. I didnt have any ambition to play college basketball, didnt have any ambition to go to the Utah State university at all. I just sat around and partied with my friends. One of Wilkinsons friends committed suicide eight months after Wilkinson quit school a friend of that friend recommended The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints for Wilkinson. Eventually, Wilkinson earned his GED, went on a twoyear mission in Alberta, Canada, and enrolled in Salt Lake Community College. Recalling his missionary work in Canada, Wilkinson said in an interview with the New Zealand Herald Sometimes it was so cold I actually couldnt speak because my jaw was frozen. We had to write with pencils as the ink in the pens would freeze. Wilkinson now shares his life story with youth gr

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