Former Arizona State basketball star Curtis Millage now head coach of Valley JUCO team


The Sun Devil alumnus is teaching and motivating the next generation of athletes.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It has been more than 20 years since former Arizona State basketball star Curtis Millage was lighting up the scoreboard for the Sun Devils. These days you can find him leading a different basketball team in the valley: the Fighting Artichokes of Scottsdale Community College (SCC).

Millage is in his first full season as head coach at SCC, but this is his seventh year coaching in the Valley. He was an assistant coach at Chandler-Gilbert Community College for two years, then went off to Shadow Mountain High School for four years before joining the ‘Chokes. 

Millage’s new home gym is less than 10 miles away from ASU’s Desert Financial Arena in Tempe where he turned in a remarkable two-year career as a guard for the Sun Devils from 2001-03.“Ever since I’ve been playing at ASU, I’ve always been like a coach out there, especially being a point guard and shooting guard. Then with the transition, going to Europe playing over there, I alw …

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