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  Nickname Milt
  Position Point Guard
  Height Ft 6
  Height In 4
  Weight Lbs 210
  League Sinalco Superleague
  Team Partizan Igokea
  Nationality USA
  Nationality 2 Belize
  Birth Date
  Birth Place Los Angeles, California
  Highschool Gardena High School
  College Colorado State
  Draft Undrafted
  Draft Year 1999
  Career Start 1999
  Former Teams Vancouver Grizzlies (1999-2000) <br> Boston Celtics (2000-2002) <br> Phoenix Suns (2002) <br> Cleveland Cavaliers (2002-2003) <br> Toronto Raptors (2003-2005) <br> Utah Jazz (2005-2006)


Milton S. Palacio (born February 7 1978 in Los Angeles, California ) is a professional Basketball player, formerly in the NBA . He was born to Belize an parents and is a Belizean citizen.

Palacio attended Gardena High School , located near Los Angeles, CA , and Compton, CA . He played College Basketball at Colorado State University and went Undrafted in 1999. He has played for the Vancouver Grizzlies , the Boston Celtics , the Phoenix Suns , the Cleveland Cavaliers , Toronto Raptors , and the Utah Jazz with a career scoring average of 4.8 points per game.

He led Belize to a gold medal in the 1998 CARICOM Men's Basketball Tournament, which the country hosted. Palacio has recently held summer camps in his parents' homeland for aspiring Belizean basketball players.

Despite a solid season with the Utah Jazz, Palacio was a Free Agent at the start of the 2006-2007 preseason. He eventually caught on with the Seattle SuperSonics and was subsequently waived because he couldn't unseat Mike Wilks as the third-string point guard behind Luke Ridnour and Earl Watson .


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