He Set an All-Time Scoring Record. Then the Basketball World Forgot Him.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Faint yellow with a blue screened-in entrance, the house on Cypress Street is squeezed in among the others, easy to miss if you’re driving past. The roof is adorned with exposed rafters beneath the eaves. A blotch of grass buffers a short, black, chainlink fence from the street. Things are typically quiet inside, other than the chatter of daytime TV or an occasional developer knocking on the front door, trying to buy the place.

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The looks shooting around the living room early last month weren’t accusatory, but cautious. Maybe confused. Jackie White and her mother, Mary Lee Rhodes, had known a stranger was coming down to visit,

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