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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.
1 posted on 12/07/2009 11:50:12 AM PST by ETL
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Very sad. Hope they catch those punks.


2 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)
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Lloyd Free was a pretty good player for the Sixers, back in their hey day.


3 posted on 12/07/2009 11:53:15 AM PST by Nonstatist
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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?

4 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.)
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It's both sad and sickening.

Aww, come on. It could have been worse.

It could have been a "hate crime".

5 posted on 12/07/2009 11:56:36 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Ack, is that the site with "Responsibility2nd"? Some weirdo. ...)
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I thought New York B. Free of guns. How could this possibly happen?


7 posted on 12/07/2009 12:01:11 PM PST by Overtaxed Patriot (Lock and load)
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Oops. It was her niece’s boyfriend. Not her nephew.


9 posted on 12/07/2009 12:05:33 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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I do hope they catch the punks and leave them in some dark hellhole for the rest of their lives.


10 posted on 12/07/2009 12:06:12 PM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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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.


11 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")
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Whether she was a wife (Wikipedia) pr “long-time lover,” what the heck isshe doing living in Bedford-Stuy?!


15 posted on 12/07/2009 12:26:19 PM PST by Dr. Sivana
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Very sad.

Why would ANYBODY be crazy enough to try to stop some “urban youths” from fighting?

Nothing good ever came of it.


18 posted on 12/07/2009 12:41:35 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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RIP.


27 posted on 12/07/2009 2:23:43 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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