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.
Thanks for the info on “Free”. I wasn’t into basketball much at that time. Just football, and horse racing.
Didn’t he play for the Cavs for a while too?
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.
World never played for Denver...it was th San Diego Clippers that he played w/ (& was a team mate of Bill Walton) after he left Philly. I think he played for Cleveland, too.
He changed his name from Lloyd to World because he said he was All-World. He was a scorer with some great moves, he’s one of many players I’ve “stolen” moves from.