- Raymond Lewis
Raymond Lewis (
September 3 ,1952 -February 11 ,2001 ) was abasketball andstreetball player.Lewis was born in
Los Angeles and is regarded as one of the best players never to have played in theNBA . When thePhiladelphia 76ers attempted to sign him after drafting him in 1973, he was reported to have had a nasty contract dispute and was told to mature for another year. He never tried to enter a professional league again.Lewis played in several streetball and summer pro league matches and became a bona fide "street legend". Lewis is reported to have dropped 56 points in a 1983 summer pro league game against
Michael Cooper , a winner of theNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award [http://www.raymondlewis.com/achievements.htm] . Jerry Tarkanian, legendary coach at UNLV said in his 2005 Novel "Runnin' Rebel that "Raymond Lewis was the greatest basketball player I ever saw.Lewis died of complications following an attempted amputation of an infected leg.
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