When asked what kind of man Holcombe Rucker was, Pelham Fritz, present director of the Rucker Summer Basketball Tournament, summed it up very nicely: “Holcombe Rucker was a man—a man in every sense of the word.”
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Connie Hawkins: The Unjust Exile of a Superstar, 1969
Hawkins was a tiny piece of evidence. Why did the DA’s office grill him so rigorously? Because it wasn’t easy to tell which players were lying.
Big Lew—Already Great, 1971
Fast or slow, the game is usually Alcindor’s. He leads the NBA in scoring with 31-plus points a game, he ranks one-two in shooting accuracy, and he is among the leaders in rebounding. There really isn’t anything he can’t do.
From Way Downtown 