Richie Parker is a basketball player from New York City. well He began his sport career at Manhattan Center high school in East Harlem and became considered one of the top 50 senior basketball players in the nation. During his time there he ran into some issues and lost scholarship offers from Seton Hall and the University of Utah. In January 1994, Parker and a schoolmate, Leslie Francis, while attending Manhattan Center, committed a sexual assault on a 16-year-old freshman girl. Parker and Francis were arrested at the scene, and convicted of first-degree sexual abuse in January 1995.