SKY WALKER: Kemba Walker, who was named MVP of the Big East tournament, goes up for a layup during Connecticicut’s 69-66 victory over Louisville last night at the Garden. (
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The most dominating performance ever turned in by a guard in Big East tournament should also serve as one of the most inspiring.
If not for the support of his parents, Paul and Andrea Walker, Kemba Walker might not have gotten a chance to play big time college basketball.
Walker was not yet a year old when he was diagnosed with asthma. He needed at least daily nebulizer treatments that required him to inhale the medication Albuterol.
But Walker’s parents never considered restricting his son. And even if they had tried, it probably wouldn’t have worked.
“We still have the machine,” Andrea told The Post before Connecticut’s 69-66 Big East-title clinching victory last night at the Garden. “We had to sit with him when he was little because he always wanted to go outside and play.
“If you look at the side of his nose you’ll see a scratch. He was chasing a ball on the sidewalk, I think he was two or three, and he was run over by a guy on a bicycle. It almost ripped his nose off. Kemba didn’t stop. He went and got his ball. Then I patched him up.”
Not asthma, nor runaway cyclists, nor Big East defenses have been able to stop Walker.


