# @hoopfeed on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CboWdXJLJm2
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- **Posted:** 2022-03-28T02:18:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hoopfeed (@hoopfeed) — https://gondola.cc/hoopfeed

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From the NYT bio accompanying the documentary on YouTube:
"Lusia Harris — a pioneering athlete who became a basketball phenomenon in the 1970s, made history as the first woman to score a basket in the Olympics and was one of the first two women inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame — died on Jan. 18 in Mississippi. She was 66.

As a child growing up in rural Mississippi, Lusia “Lucy” Harris often stayed up past her bedtime watching her favorite N.B.A. players, dreaming of one day playing on the same courts. Reaching 6 feet 3 inches by the time she was in high school, Harris was often called “long and tall and that’s all” by her classmates — but she knew her height would be an asset on the court. And she wasn’t just tall enough to play the game. She was a rare talent who would go on to be a three-time national college champion and an Olympic silver medalist, making her a national sensation by the time she finished her college career.

For an electrifying young basketball player on the national stage, success often comes with a lucrative professional contract and brand deals — but Harris’s moment came in the 1970s, decades before the W.N.B.A. was founded, when few opportunities were available to female athletes interested in pursuing a professional career. In Ben Proudfoot's 'The Queen of Basketball,' Harris tells the story of what happens when an unstoppable talent runs out of games to win."

#Lusia #QueenOfBasketball #Oscars

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queenofbasketball, oscars, lusia

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