Lorenzo Charles
Lorenzo Emile Lo Charles (born November 25, 1963 in Brooklyn , † June 27, 2011 in Raleigh, North Carolina at the age of 47 years and 214 days) was an American basketball player .
Life
He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in his hometown, for which he also played basketball. He then went to North Carolina State University and was a power forward for their basketball team from 1981 to 1985 in a total of 126 games . In 1983 he won the championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference with the team . In addition, the team coached by Jim Valvano won the final of the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship on April 4, 1983 in Albuquerque and thus the college state championship against the highly-favored team from the University of Houston , in which Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler played, among others . The game- winning dunking by Lorenzo Charles to the final score of 54:52, two seconds before the end of the game, is considered one of the most iconic and iconic moments in the history of the NCAA basketball championship. The Associated Press sports journalists voted him All-American that same year .
Lorenzo Charles was selected in 1985 in the second round of the NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks , for which he completed a total of 36 games in the NBA in the 1985/86 season . From 1986 until the end of his professional career in 2001 he was active for various minor league teams as well as for teams in Europe and South America . He then worked briefly as a coach of the Fargo , North Dakota- based minor league team Fargo-Moorhead Beez in the Continental Basketball Association .
In June 2011, Lorenzo Charles died at the age of 47 when he crashed a bus he was driving on Interstate 40 .
literature
- Douglas Martin: Lorenzo Charles, 47; Dunk Won 1983 Title . In: The New York Times , June 29, 2011, p. B16
- Lorenzo Charles. In: Tim Peeler: Legends of NC State Basketball. Sports Publishing, Champaign 2004, ISBN 1-58261-820-8 , pp. 128-133
Web links
- 1983 NCAA Basketball Championship
- Lorenzo Charles - NBA & ABA Statistics. Basketball-Reference.com, seasonal statistics by Lorenzo Charles (English)
- 100 most memorable moments of 25 years of ESPN - 15: NC State dunks Houston in NCAA final. - NCAA finals in 1983 retold by Rick Weinberg for ESPN (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former Wolfpack basketball standout this in Raleigh bus wreck, WRAL Raleigh Durham Fayetteville, 28 June 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Charles, Lorenzo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Charles, Lorenzo Emile (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 2011 |
| Place of death | Raleigh, North Carolina |