Former skilled basketball participant and govt Lance Blanks has died, the NBA mentioned Thursday.
Blanks died in Dallas on May 3, the league mentioned in a information launch. He was 56 years outdated.
Blanks performed school basketball at Virginia and Texas earlier than he was drafted by the Detroit Pistons in 1990. He competed within the NBA for 3 seasons for the Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves earlier than taking part in abroad for one more seven years.
He returned to the States and had plenty of front-office jobs, together with as a scout for the San Antonio Spurs, assistant normal supervisor for the Cleveland Cavaliers, normal supervisor for the Phoenix Suns — a job he saved for 5 seasons — and, most not too long ago, as a scout for the Los Angeles Clippers. He additionally labored as an analyst for ESPN and a commentator for the Longhorn Network.
He was on a scouting journey when he died, based on the Austin American-Statesman.
“It’s been a privilege to have called him one of my closest friends,” former Pistons teammate Joe Dumars mentioned. “I’m eternally grateful for all the support he has shown me throughout the years. His legacy will be carried on, not only by his family, but by all those whose lives he touched for the better.”
Blanks is survived by his mom Clarice, brother Sidney Jr., the mom of his two daughters, Renee, his daughters, Riley and Bryn, and granddaughter, Isabel.
“The love I have for him is simply immeasurable,” Riley Blanks Reed mentioned in a press release. “He carried his household and associates on his selfless shoulders and he was the wisest man I’ll ever know.
“The path ahead is dark without him but he once told me that he trusted my sister and me to carry the torch of our family’s legacy. And we will.”
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Source: www.bostonherald.com