sad news; Freddie Lewis was killed by NBA because of $230m……
Freddie Lewis didn’t tell them who he was. Didn’t think it mattered. He never was one to beat his chest, even when he was leading the Indiana Pacers to all three — the only three — championships in franchise history. Freddie wasn’t about Freddie, but about everyone else.
Maybe that’s the reason we’re here, today.
Twenty-five years ago? Freddie was in Washington D.C., living down the street from a community center where a non-profit group was helping kids from the inner city, kids who were slipping through the cracks, toward dark places. This is a basketball story, and that was a basketball non-profit group, and that’s how ABA legend Freddie Lewis found himself walking into the gym to help kids, and coaches, with no idea who he was.
“He didn’t talk about what he’d done,” says Walter Ray, founder of the non-profit Education Goals Opportunities and Sports, and as far as epitaphs, that wouldn’t be a bad one, someday, for Freddie Lewis:
Didn’t talk about what he’d done.
