From playing basketball to raising two daughters and caring for his long-ailing father,...
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It’s also what made Thursday’s news so devastating. Blanks' family issued a statement, released by the NBA,Lance Blanks, celebrating a Texas victory over Xavier in the NCAA Tournament in 1990. Blanks died on Wednesday in Dallas.
But Blanks figured the future Hall of Famer would be special, and his eye for talent and the nuances of the game kept paying dividends for him. When the Spurs TV broadcast team got caught shorthanded during the 2004-05 season, Blanks filled in as a color commentator and proved to be a natural. He might have stuck with it if Danny Ferry, a former Spur who’d become the general manager in Cleveland, hadn’t hired Blanks to be the assistant GM of a franchise bound for the 2007 Finals.
As the “B” in UT’s vaunted “BMW” backcourt that also featured Travis Mays and Joey Wright, Blanks used his shooting touch and swaggering bravado to help carry coach Tom Penders’ 1989-90 Runnin’ Horns to the Elite Eight.
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