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He liked the contact, too. "He bumped into things," Dexter Trent said yesterday from Columbus. "When he was a baby, we started calling him Bump. The game became basketball when jump was added to bump, when Gary Trent went to high school and grew to be 6-5. By that time, his father was gone, to a prison in Ashland, Ky., sentenced, at 31, to life for dealing crack. Dexter Trent was guilty of many things, all right, but now he wanted to say that failing to love his children certainly wasn't one of them. "What I was doing was wrong, but what I was doing with my money was right," he said. I was damned good at it. But the money I made was for my kids. I didn't want them to grow up with nothing, like me." His own father, gone from his life before he could walk, drank himself to an early death. Dexter Trent was raised by his grandmother. He met his wife, Cheryl Gunnell, in seventh grade. They had their first child at 17. The street, he said, seemed the only way to go. It led him down his father's road.
Awash in trouble, away from his kids. "Don't be like me," he'd say, when Gary would visit. "Be better than me." His son had inherited his easy smile, his gift for gab, but had also kept growing, and soon was talking about all the points he was scoring at Hamilton Township High School. Down in Athens, Ohio University Coach Larry Hunter heard about Trent from contacts in Columbus. The kid was right in Ohio State's backyard, but the Big Ten power was taking a pass. "There was some baggage," Hunter said. Trent's grades were poor. He hadn't scored the minimum on his college entrance exam. He liked to hang out. His father sold crack. Hunter, with no stars begging to play for him, like Dean Smith, heard encouraging reports. Trent's situation looked worse than it was. His high school coach called him bright, loyal, determined. Hunter called him up, offered a scholarship. Right on the phone, without so much as a visit to Athens. Putting the city behind him wasn't going to be that simple.
Hunter got him out of bed every morning at 6 A.M. to lift weights. He sent him to study hall three hours every day, to the gym to work on his jump shot. He assigned another player to stay close to him at night. Soon, the freshman had passed his exams. He'd grown three inches and quickly become Hunter's best player, a professional forward in the making. Down in Ashland, Dexter Trent was suddenly a celebrity among 1,500 inmates. That was his boy, dunking on TV. "When I saw him, the first thing I said was, 'If he can do that, then I can make it out of here,' " he said. "He inspired me, gave me hope. I wanted to be there with him, with my whole family. It made me toe the line because I realized if there was any chance of getting out, I couldn't have one flaw against me." Over the years, Dexter Trent's sentence had been reduced, to 60 years, then 12. He wrote his own petition to file for early release. The court appointed a lawyer, Ken Murray, to handle his case. After six years and seven months in prison, Dexter Trent returned home last May, to do handiwork at his wife's hair salon.