‘A long time coming’: Sincere Parker’s special night was months in the making
Memphis Tigers guard Sincere Parker (in a photo from the Tigers’ Jan. 18 game against the UTSA Roadrunners) finished Thursday’s game against UAB with a career-high 40 points and led Memphis to a 90-80 win against the Blazers in Birmingham. (Wes Hale/Special to The Daily Memphian)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Sincere Parker stood near the edge of the court at Bartow Arena with his hands resting on his knees as he tried to catch his breath.
A little more than 12 minutes remained in Memphis’ Thursday night matchup against UAB in Birmingham, Alabama, when the 6-foot-3 shooting guard looked coach Penny Hardaway in his eyes and told him he needed to come out of the game for rest.
Hardaway then did something he’d done consistently since late July of last offseason, about three months after Parker first committed to play for him as a transfer from McNeese State.
He patted Parker on the back and told him to keep going.
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Parth Upadhyaya
Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
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