Raymond Lewis

Raymond Lewis

Raymond Lewis (September 3, 1952 - February 11, 2001) was a basketball and streetball player.

Lewis was born in Los Angeles and is regarded as one of the best players never to have played in the NBA. When the Philadelphia 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 the NBA 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.

External links

* [http://www.raymondlewis.com/index.htm www.raymondlewis.com]


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