By John Nash

February 15th, 2008

Wilton Villager

Unless your shelling out thousands of dollars to a highly-qualified, big-city plastic surgeon, change oftentimes does not happen overnight.

In the sport-scape that surrounds the humble little burg you call home, the Wilton Basketball Association is proof of that.

Wilton, after all, is football country. Wilton is a lacrosse town. Wilton is a place where soccer can thrive.

But basketball? Putting a competitively planned youth basketball program would be akin to planting a cactus in a rain forest. It's like matching up Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep to headline a movie. It's like Stephen King writing a Harlequin Romance.

On the surface, it just didn't seem right.

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