“We’ve had a lot of wonderful coaches, and we’ve had a lot of great players, but one player who gave us international respect was Lucy Harris.” Pat Summitt, Legendary Tennessee Basketball Coach In life, all Lusia Harris wanted was to be recognized. Ten days after her death, Harris is being showered with compliments and praise … Read more
Walt Disney Television via Getty Images SPORTS – 1976 SUMMER OLYMPICS – Women’s Basketball – July 20, 1976. LUSIA HARRIS shoots the basket in the game between the United States and Bulgaria. Lucia Harris He died untimely on January 18 and everything he achieved in life and on the court was going to receive greater … Read more
Lusia Harris, “the queen of basketball,” has died, reads the family statement on the death of this 66-year-old woman. Sometimes, many times, the obituary literature overflows at the seams with hyperbolic praise of the deceased that possibly would have been haggled over in life. The New Orleans Jazz drafted her in 1977, but Harris was … Read more
Lusia Harris, the only woman in history to be selected in an NBA Draft, has died at the age of 66 (Photo: AP) A sad news has generated commotion in the most important basketball league in the world: the former American player Lusia Harris-Stewart, the only woman officially selected in a Draft of the NBA, … Read more
When the NBA organized a vote to choose weirdest draft pick ever, won the sixth pick of the seventh round, number 137 of 1977. LThe chosen one was Lusia Harris, the only woman officially selected in an NBA draft. It was June 10. Last night, Still January 18 in the United States, Luisa Harris passed … Read more
Lusia Harris, the legendary basketball player who entered NBA history for being the only woman chosen in the draft, died on Tuesday at the age of 66. “We are deeply saddened to share the news that our angel, matriarch, sister, mother, grandmother, Olympic medalist, basketball queen Lusia Harris has passed away unexpectedly in Mississippi,” the … Read more
