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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Lightnin' Rod on May 15, 2009, 10:17:47 AM

Title: Wayman Tisdale, 44
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on May 15, 2009, 10:17:47 AM

NBA player, gold medalist, jazz musician, of cancer.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/9578270/Former-Sooner-star,-NBA-player-Tisdale-dead-at-44

Title: Re: Wayman Tisdale, 44
Post by: urth on May 15, 2009, 10:25:02 AM

Damn, that's a big shock. I'm not even close to a basketball fan, but he played for the Kings when I lived in Sacramento and was a big ambassador for the team, on and off the court. Lots of community involvement, and never anything close to a scandal or an ungracious comment to the press. And he was supposedly a pretty good bassist, too. 44 is far too young to go. RIP.

Title: Re: Wayman Tisdale, 44
Post by: mshray on May 15, 2009, 10:54:10 AM

Very sad.  I heard him interviewed a few months back by Dave Koz on KKSF, and he talked abot the cancer & losing his leg.  Very upbeat guy. I heard a lot of his music on KKSF over the years. 

He was 2 yrs younger than me (yikes!)

Title: Re: Wayman Tisdale, 44
Post by: ggould on May 15, 2009, 03:51:04 PM

I had about two degrees of separation, as he played a bass made by a friend of mine, and was a friend of another bassist I knew.  I knew nothing about his basketball career.

Title: Re: Wayman Tisdale, 44
Post by: RGMike on May 21, 2009, 10:20:35 AM

Nice piece by Jon Carroll:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/21/DDEI17NBFD.DTL