Kevin Duckworth and Wayman Tisdale: Remembering the Good Times

This article was written by George Irvine of Basketball.org. George was a long-time NBA Head Coach, Executive and Player. In the past couple of days, there have been a couple of sad stories relating to retired NBA players. First was the story about the untimely death of Kevin Duckworth, of which Jaime wrote. I knew Kevin a little bit, about as much as an opposing coach gets to know players on other teams. Kevin was a solid player, a big guy who could cause problems for the opposition because of his size, and he possessed a nice shooting touch. He was an integral part of those very good Blazer teams in the 80’s. Kevin was a very nice person. Polite, humble, but with a fun personality. He was liked and respected, not only by his teammates and coaches, but by opposing players and coaches. A gentle giant of a man.  I was very saddened by the news. Today, I learned about Wayman Tisdale needing to amputate part of his right leg due to bone cancer. I know Wayman very well. I was the ... (link)