While people weep and wail and gnash their teeth over whether or not Rick Pitino should continue to coach at Louisville or if Mike Vick should continue to play football, here's one of those stories that you may not have heard yet.

Lavelle Felton loved playing basketball.  After growing up in Milwaukee, he moved on to a collegiate career at Louisiana Tech.  When he couldn't get a job in the NBA, he played overseas in Turkey, Greece, Cyprus and France.  Last season, he led a German team to the playoffs for the first time. Felton didn't care that he was playing overseas, just that he was playing.

Tragically, Lavelle Felton's story came to an end on a Wednesday night in his home town when he was shot in the head during driving away from a gas station.  According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

The shooting stemmed from jealousy over his stepson's customized 1976 black, convertible Buick Centurion. McLean said the driver of another customized car pulled up to Felton's car, revved up the engine and took off. A short time later, McLean said, the driver of the other car returned, firing a gun into the air while a man who had been in that car but now was on foot crept up and shot Felton.

 A senseless and inexplicable end to the life of a good man who just wanted to play basketball.

He leaves behind two children.

Unfortunately, being a blue state, there is no death penalty in Wisconsin.  Here's hoping the guy that did this never makes it to prison.