Former Texas star, Spurs scout Lance Blanks dies at age 56
1989 - 90 Texas Longhorns basketball Benford Williams, Lance Blanks Guillermo Myers and Travis MaysSix weeks ago, Lance Blanks couldn’t stop smiling. He was about to become a grandfather. One of his dearest friends in the world finally was getting the big break Blanks told him he deserved.
Beloved by countless people throughout basketball -- multiple generations of Texas coaches and players, front-office cohorts from his stints with the Spurs, Cavaliers, Suns and Clippers, coworkers at ESPN and the Longhorn Network, and dozens of pro players he scouted along the way – Blanks was, in the words of NBA head of basketball operations Joe Dumars, “a light for all those who knew him.”
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 the Longhorns' vaunted “BMW” backcourt that also featured Travis Mays and Joey Wright, Blanks’ shooting touch and swaggering bravado helped carry coach Tom Penders’ 1989-’90 Runnin’ Horns to the Elite Eight.
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