Monday, November 1, 2010

maurice lucas...

The power forward who was the enforcer for Bill Walton and the Portland Trailblazers when they won the NBA Championship in 1977.

Maurice Lucas played for the legendary Al McGuire @ Marquette leading his team to the 1974 NCAA Division One Mens Basketball Championship game against eventual champion North Carolina State led by David Thompson.

Lucas lost a long battle with bladder cancer and he was just 58 years old.

Cancer is such an insidious disease. Back in April, I lost my Aunt Eloise to pancreatic cancer.

I believe Maurice Lucas is worthy of being inducted in Basketballs Hall of Fame.

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