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Jerry Lucas: From the Playbook to the Good Book
by Eric Haubert
Posted: 03.26.2012

Former Buckeye and one of the '50 Greatest' in NBA history Jerry Lucas, speaks to the congregation at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Maumee.
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He may not have made the millions current NBA basketball players pull-in, in fact Jerry Lucas only made just $30,000 in his first year in the league.

However, it was still pro ball and Lucas walked away from it with three years left on a contract with the New York Knicks in 1974, not because of an injury but because of a higher power.

The decision didn't exactly sit well with his teammates.

"They thought I was crazy, giving up an NBA career," said Lucas, who was in Maumee speaking at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. "But I knew what I was supposed to do with my life. God called me to a ministry and I was going to be obedient to that so, I'm thankful I did."

Lucas, who will turn 72 this week, has never looked back.

"I never missed it. Not even one iota of a second."

He says he's turned down millions of dollars in broadcasting opportunities to minister to 'about 30' churches a year.

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http://www.northwestohio.com/sports/story.aspx?id=734768#.T3GuE9Xd2Ag

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Jerry Lucas
1960
A native of Middletown, Ohio, Jerry Lucas chose to attend Ohio State on an academic scholarship. The 6-foot-8 power forward had twice been named Mr. Basketball USA, an award handed to the nation's best high school basketball player. In 1959-60, his sophomore year at OSU, Lucas led the team to the national championship. Among the reserves on that squad was future Hall of Fame coach Bobby Knight.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mu...ops.classic.pics/content.1.html#ixzz1qVXOxAUX

 

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Sports View: Jerry Lucas' playing days remembered
by Ken Lahmers
Editor

Seeing Jerry Lucas among a group of former athletes who made a presentation at halftime of a recent state boys basketball tournament game brought back memories.

The Circle of Champions honorees at the Division IV state finale between Berlin Hiland and Jackson Center were former Ohio State quarterback Bob Hoying, Dick Snyder and Barry Clemens. Honored at another game were former Major League baseballer Gene Tenace, Olympian Butch Reynolds and LaVonna Martin-Floreal.

It was 50 years and two months before he appeared for this year's presentation that I had first seen Lucas play for the Ohio State Buckeyes, just down Lane Avenue at old St. John Arena.

It was January 1962 when my uncle, who has lived in Columbus all these years, took my dad and me to St. John Arena to see the Buckeyes play the Illinois Illini.

I remember sitting in an upper side section between one free throw line and midcourt. Pretty good seats. Lucas was my favorite player.

Lucas was in his senior year. He had been on OSU's national championship team in 1960, then the Buckeyes lost the national title to Cincinnati the next two years.

Also on that 1962 team were John Havlicek, Mel Nowell, Larry Siegfried, Gary Gearhart, Bob Knight and Gary Bradds. Lucas, Havlicek and Knight went on to fame in either the NBA or coaching.

LUCAS WAS a big man by early 1960 standards, standing 6-foot-8 and weighing 230 pounds. At age 72, by the way, he still looks like he is in great shape.

He was national player of the year in 1961 and 1962, and was Big Ten player of the year all three of his varsity years. Freshmen weren't allowed on the varsity back then. The Buckeyes went 78-6 in his three years.

He was on the Olympics gold medal team in 1960. His number 11 is one of only four or five basketball numbers retired at OSU. A No. 11 jersey hangs with the others from the rafters of the Shottenstein Center.

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http://www.auroraadvocate.com/news/article/5174851

 

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The Recruiting Trail
Jerry Lucas Court will be dedicated at Middletown Feb. 15
01/14/13
by mdyer

The basketball court at Wade E. Miller Gymnasium will be dedicated in honor of Basketball Hall of Famer and Middletown alum Jerry Lucas on Feb. 15, according to Middletown organizers.

Middletown plays host to Hamilton that night and Jerry Lucas Court will be dedicated between the JV and varsity game that night.

Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for seniors and students. Contact Justin Holweger at 513-594-0062 for ticket orders for the game and dinner.

On Feb. 16, there will be a ceremony at Miami University Middletown for Lucas starting at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 for the Montgomery Inn meal.

Lucas, who lives in California, played at Middletown from 1956-58. The Middies had a 76-game winning streak during his career. He was a three-time All-American at Ohio State and won an NCAA title. He was also a U.S. Olympic gold medalist (1960) and an NBA champion (Knicks, 1973). He played with the Cincinnati Royals in the 1960s.

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/recruit...court-will-be-dedicated-at-middletown-feb-15/

 

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Jerry Lucas reflects on his Middletown days and looks forward to the Feb. 15 reunion
02/08/13
by Mike Dyer

Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas says he wakes up motivated by 3:30 or 4 a.m. every day to get started on his efforts in education ? an almost 40-year dedication for what he terms his real goal in life.

After he retired with years left on his contract with the New York Knicks following the 1973-74 season, the Middletown alum said he devoted all his efforts to developing learning techniques.

An inspirational speaker, educator and memory expert, Lucas believes he will be most remembered for his efforts in education more so than his legendary basketball career.

Lucas, who has been known as Doctor Memory, has advised corporations to youngsters to church groups and has a website devoted to products that include memory retention techniques.

?I love teaching in many ways,? said Lucas, who turns 73 on March 30. ??Every day I get up to work I feel like a teenager.?

Middletown will honor the NBA legend Feb. 15 when the Middies play host to Hamilton at Wade E. Miller Gymnasium.

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http://cincinnati.com/blogs/recruit...wn-days-and-looks-forward-to-the-feb-15-game/

 

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Middletown names Jerry Lucas Court
Basketball Hall of Famer on hand for Friday's ceremony
Feb 15, 2013
Written by
Tom Ramstetter
Enquirer contributor

Former Middletown High School basketball star and Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas speaks to the crowd during Friday's ceremony to name the basketball court at the school after him.

Jerry Lucas has had no shortage of honors in the game of basketball from the time he started playing in fourth grade.

The Middletown native has won two Ohio high school state championships, an NCAA title, an NBA title, he has participated in the Olympics and he was enshrined in 1980 in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Friday night ranked near the top of that list for Lucas, 72, who had the basketball court at Middletown?s Wade E. Miller Gym named for him ? Jerry Lucas Court.

?It ranks very, very, very highly,? Lucas said after the ceremony. ?Everything that I?ve done in my life in basketball began here. The fondest memories of my life are on this court. So to be recognized in that way is a tremendous honor.?

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http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130215/SPT0301/302150107

 

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Bob Baptist ‏@BBaptistHoops

Jerry Lucas will be honored at #Buckeyes? game Wednesday as one of top 75 players in NCAA Tournament history.

https://twitter.com/BBaptistHoops/status/303719569107865601

 

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Michael Arace commentary: Lucas more than great basketball player
By Michael Arace
The Columbus Dispatch?Thursday February 21, 2013

Even though Jerry Lucas is 72 years old, his big hands have not lost their crushing grip, and his eyes still flash like blue lasers. To see him again is to think, hey, why not suit up?

Ohio State men?s basketball coach Thad Matta had that thought earlier this week, when it was confirmed Lucas would be in town.

?I?m going to check to see if he can play for us,? Matta said.

Lucas responded, ?I haven?t shot a basketball in 37 years.?

He?d fit right in, would he not?

Easy now, it is just a joke.

The Buckeyes have been criticized for their lack of offense in recent games, but they looked a lot better in pummeling Minnesota 71-45 in Value City Arena last night. It was an important victory as the Big Ten demolition derby enters its final weeks. It was special for the appearance of Lucas, who was given a standing ovation when he stepped to center court during a first-half timeout.

Lucas was on hand to accept a tasteful little trophy presented by Jim Jackson, another Player of the Year from a bygone era. The trophy was a token of Lucas? inclusion among the top 75 college players in NCAA history, as determined by the governing body. The field will be cut further and, if Lucas is not among the top 10, it will be an upset.

?It?s great to be recognized,? he said. ?We had the most success of any team in the history of Ohio State. I think fans understand and appreciate that.?

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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con.../lucas-more-than-great-basketball-player.html

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Former Ohio State star Jerry Lucas-CPD video interview 2 20 13

 

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A Thinking Man?s Player Never Stops Thinking
By SCOTT CACCIOLA
Published: April 6, 2013

Ray Stubblebine/Reuters
Jerry Lucas, second from left, at Madison Square Garden on Friday with teammates from the Knicks? 1973 championship team.

Jerry Lucas found it easier than most to let go. He had a couple of years remaining on his contract with the Knicks when he retired in 1974, but he wanted to do something more important with his life. He had a plan. Lucas always had a plan.

He was never the type to do things halfway. Why, for example, would he memorize one page of the phone book when he could memorize 500? Such were the feats of mental gymnastics that shaped Lucas?s reputation as one of the N.B.A.?s more iconoclastic personalities, that landed him on the ?Tonight? show. But his self-described capacity for learning, for using his brain, was also what guided the next 40 years of his life.

In his never-ending quest to help educate the rest of humanity, Lucas, 73, has been working on an animated Web site that he hopes to unveil in December. It will be known as Doctor M?s Universe ? Lucas is Doctor M, short for Doctor Memory ? and he said it had the potential to change the world.

?I have an opportunity, in the near future, to revolutionize education,? Lucas said, adding that the site would be geared toward children. ?There will be hundreds of learning planets: a writing planet, a reading planet, a spelling planet, a grammar and punctuation planet, on and on, where youngsters will fly their own spaceships at warp speed to go to learn automatically. That?s why I left basketball: to devote my life to this.?

Lucas was at Madison Square Garden on Friday for a reunion of the Knicks? 1972-73 N.B.A. championship team, and he relished getting together with the old gang. Lucas, a 6-foot-8 forward, was an indispensable member of that team, which was full of distinctive stars.

?We had more plays than any team in the N.B.A. because we were smarter and we could remember things,? Lucas said. ?And if my teammates couldn?t remember them, I?d teach them how. It was just so much fun.

?I was so excited when I was traded to the Knicks. I mean, I was thrilled.?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/s...-mans-player-never-stopped-thinking.html?_r=0

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Monday, Aug. 12, 2013
Jerry Lucas? sports memorabilia on auction block
By Rick McCrabb
Staff Writer

MIDDLETOWN ?

For the past five decades, some of Jerry Lucas? most prized possessions from the 1960 Rome Olympics, Ohio State University and his NBA career have been stuffed in cardboard boxes and stored in his closest.

Now they?re going to the highest bidder.

Lucas, 73, a 1957 Middletown High School graduate who led the Middies to 76 consecutive victories and back-to-back state championships, was the youngest member of the U.S. basketball team that won the gold medal at the 1960 Olympics.

Lucas said for years the items were stored in his home. Because he couldn?t divide the items fairly among his family, he said selling them through Grey Flannel Auctions was ?the right thing to do at this time.?

He called the items ?really good stuff.?

Several of the pieces of memorabilia were displayed at last week?s National Sports Collectors Show in Chicago. Lucas posed with some of the items and also was an autograph guest at the show that included some of the biggest names in sports.

Lucas said the ?best item? up for auction is the Olympic gold medal. When asked the last time he placed the gold medal around his neck, Lucas said with a laugh: ?1960.?

He never displayed the items in his home.

?Things don?t mean a lot to me,? he said. ?They never have. I have real great memories associated with them, but they?re hard to see when they?re in a closet.?

They are expected to attract ?major attention? from those in the sports memorabilia business, said Michael Russek, director of operations at Grey Flannel, which was contacted by Lucas to auction off his memorabilia.

He called the 17 items that span Lucas? career at Ohio State through the NBA ?one of the most complete during the prime era of basketball.?

Then he added: ?It?s incredible stuff. It pulls you right through his career.?

Russek said every item will have a minimum bid, and if they only brought their reserve, they would sell for $531,500.

The most expensive item probably will be the gold medal, which has a reserve of $250,000, Russek said. He refused to guess what it may sell for, saying ?the market will dictate the price.?

He said the medal will be the first one ever sold at auction, and because Lucas is a Hall of Famer, makes it only more valuable.

JERRY LUCAS SPORTS MEMORABILIA UP FOR AUCTION

These are the 17 items ? and minimum bids ? of the Jerry Lucas collection that are being auctioned off by Grey Flannel.

The online auction begins Monday and ends Sept. 7, with a live auction after the Basketball Hall of Fame induction.

1962 Jerry Lucas College All-Star Game-Used Jersey ($500)
Jerry Lucas Ohio State University Sports Hall of Fame Induction Plaque ($1,000)
Jerry Lucas NCAA Top 15 All-Time March Madness Player Award ($1,000)
1960 Jerry Lucas Ohio State University Worn Shooting Shirt ($10,000)
1960 Jerry Lucas Ohio State National Championship Ring ($20,000)
1960 Jerry Lucas USA Olympic Game-Used Jersey ($50,000)
1960 Jerry Lucas USA Basketball Olympic Gold Medal ($250,000)
Athletes Village Olympic Flag from the 1960 Rome Olympics ($5,000)
1970-71 Jerry Lucas San Francisco Warriors Practice Worn Uniform ($500)
1969-70 Jerry Lucas San Francisco Warriors Game-Used Home Jersey ($10,000)
Late 1960?s Jerry Lucas Cincinnati Royals Game-Used Road Jersey ($10,000)
1973 Jerry Lucas New York Knicks World Championship Ring ($50,000)
1991 Jerry Lucas NBA All-Star Game Ring & 2001 All-Star ?1965 A.S.G. MVP? Presentation Jacket ($1,000)
Jerry Lucas NBA Top 50 Ceremony Worn Leather Jacket and Travel Bag ($2,500)
Jerry Lucas NBA Top 50 Greatest Players Lithograph ($35,000)
Jerry Lucas NBA Top 50 Greatest Players Ring with Presentation Box ($35,000)
1979 Jerry Lucas Hall of Fame Induction Ring ($50,000)

http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/news/jerry-lucas-sports-memorabilia-on-auction-block/nZKQ4/

 

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