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Ex-Lover Of Former NBA Star Fatally Shot In NYC
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| Dec 7, 2009
| Magee Hickey
Posted on 12/07/2009 11:50:05 AM PST by ETL
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The "celebrity" aspect of this story didn't interest me. I never even heard of this NBA player before this. It was the ruthlessness of it. The poor woman, who it appears was a very decent, caring person, was simply trying to protect her 14-year old nephew from a group of punks. 2-1/2 weeks before Christmas they shoot her in the head and kill her. It's both sad and sickening.
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posted on
12/07/2009 11:50:12 AM PST
by
ETL
To: ETL
Very sad. Hope they catch those punks.
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posted on
12/07/2009 11:52:14 AM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: ETL
Lloyd Free was a pretty good player for the Sixers, back in their hey day.
To: ETL
Johnson was a longtime companion of former NBA All-Star Lloyd "World" B. Free of the Philadelphia 76ers and other teams in the late 70s. His wife is remembered as a loving, generous person. Why do they call her a "companion" if she was Free's wife?
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posted on
12/07/2009 11:55:12 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: ETL
It's both sad and sickening.Aww, come on. It could have been worse.
It could have been a "hate crime".
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posted on
12/07/2009 11:56:36 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(Ack, is that the site with "Responsibility2nd"? Some weirdo. ...)
To: Izzy Dunne
Why do they call her a "companion" if she was Free's wife? This entire article reads like it was written by an 8th grader for the school paper.
Typical TV journalism.
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posted on
12/07/2009 11:59:21 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(Ack, is that the site with "Responsibility2nd"? Some weirdo. ...)
To: ETL
I thought New York B. Free of guns. How could this possibly happen?
To: Izzy Dunne
Why do they call her a "companion" if she was Free's wife? I don't know. WCBS.com is a strange/liberal website.
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posted on
12/07/2009 12:02:19 PM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
Oops. It was her niece’s boyfriend. Not her nephew.
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posted on
12/07/2009 12:05:33 PM PST
by
ETL
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To: ETL
I do hope they catch the punks and leave them in some dark hellhole for the rest of their lives.
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posted on
12/07/2009 12:06:12 PM PST
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: ETL
Lloyd Free was a 6th Man guard on the Sixers team that featured Doctor J, Doug Collins, George McGinnis, and Billy Cunningham. Actually there was a group of young players that came of the bench as a unit to shake things up. The baby-Sixers included Free, Darryl Dawkins & Kobe Bryant’s Dad — Joe “Jellybean” Bryant.
Free left for the Denver Nuggets. I think it was there that he christened himself “World B” Free. He averaged something like 30 ppg in the high-flying Denver Nuggets offense for a few years.
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posted on
12/07/2009 12:06:15 PM PST
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Tallguy
Thanks for the info on “Free”. I wasn’t into basketball much at that time. Just football, and horse racing.
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posted on
12/07/2009 12:12:05 PM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Tallguy
Didn’t he play for the Cavs for a while too?
To: Tallguy
Great background info on "Free".
The whole incident reminds me of Chicago, and the honors student beaten to death by thugs.
The Vicious preying on the Good.
This is very disheartening.
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posted on
12/07/2009 12:19:22 PM PST
by
happygrl
(Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
To: ETL
Whether she was a wife (Wikipedia) pr “long-time lover,” what the heck isshe doing living in Bedford-Stuy?!
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I think so. I followed those Sixers pretty closely back in high school. When I was in college I followed the college game — Big East, mostly.
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posted on
12/07/2009 12:27:24 PM PST
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; happygrl
Philadelphia 76ers (19751978)
San Diego Clippers (19791980)
Golden State Warriors (19801982)
Cleveland Cavaliers (19821986)
Miami Tropics (USBL) (19861987)
Houston Rockets(19871988)
My mistake. Free went to the Clippers, not the Nuggets. Free finished 2nd twice to George “iceman” Gervin in scoring. Gervin could really fill-it-up.
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posted on
12/07/2009 12:30:50 PM PST
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: ETL
Very sad.
Why would ANYBODY be crazy enough to try to stop some “urban youths” from fighting?
Nothing good ever came of it.
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posted on
12/07/2009 12:41:35 PM PST
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Tallguy
World was an out-sized personality when the NBA really needed it in the late 70s. He was one of the first players that the media referred to as a “scorer” rather than a “shooter” (at least that I remember). Iceman was a much better all around player, though, and then came Magic and Bird to take the NBA in a different direction...
hh
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posted on
12/07/2009 1:28:52 PM PST
by
hoosier hick
(Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
To: hoosier hick
There were 2 distinct games in the NBA back then: the eastern style had a lot more banging, illegal ‘zone’ defenses, etc. The western game was far more fast-break & free-wheeling. I think Bird & Magic really re-inforced those stereotypes, plus it made the western-variant competitive as far as winning championships went.
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posted on
12/07/2009 1:37:44 PM PST
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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