David Greenwood I love basketball so much in the middle school that it will play for three different teams in three different gardens on the same day, several times a week.
His brother, Al, in the car, will drive his car between the games, while David was trading in his deep uniform for another, and repeated the process over and over again.
“It was unabated, because he loved the game.”
At home, David was wandering around the corridor games by the father of the cement contractor who was twice in size, just to continue to return to get more connection. In practices, he shot the blindfold to master his shape, and his brother was forced to tell him when he was about to get out of the border so that he could get his lawyers.
David Greenwood, 34, at the University of California, Los Angeles, launches a basketball in a match against San Francisco at the Marriott Center in Proveau, Utah, on March 15, 1979
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Greenwood, the child of the designer, the designer who went From a high school player in Verbum Dei To one of the best scorers in Ucla History died to the American Professional League champion with Detroit Bestones, on Sunday night at the River Cancer Hospital. It was 68.
According to the nature of a person who played through weak foot injuries throughout his career, Greenwood did not inform the family of his illness until the end of his life.
“Everything has happened very quickly,” said Bronson Greenwood, the nephew of David. “It was a kind of shock.”
He was one of the great high school players in southern California, and his colleague Roy Hamilton is among the final players who were recruited by John Woodin, California University coach. They were shocked when a wooden retired shortly after their high school season and replaced by Jin Barto.
But they decided to abide by their obligations, which were partly attracted through a trained stadium that they will not play with in the college.
“Tell me if you go to USC, Unlv or Notre Dame, I will be American from all Americans,” Greenwood once told Wooden’s suggestion. “But if I go to the University of California, Los Angeles, I will be able to test a psychological person against 12 Americans at other high school every day.”
Greenwood’s work ethics continued to push him Kabroen. His practices with the team followed an hour in another gym, and his brother fed him. Along the way, he did not reduce himself or his teammates.
University athletes were chosen in the American Professional League draft with the American Professional League Commissioner, Larry O’Brien, at Center, at the Plaza Hotel in New York on June 25, 1979. Sydney Monkerv, Arkansas, was formulated by Milwoki; Bill Garshart, San Francisco, formulated by New York; Earvin Johnson, Michigan State, formulated by Los Angeles; Greg Kelly, Michigan State, formulated by Detroit; David Greenwood, the University of California in Los Angeles, formulated by Chicago.
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Al -Al said: “If he said that he would shoot 100 free throws, the matter was not, it was not 65, it was 100 – and it did not stop until it reached 100.”
After it was called “Batman and Robin” in high school, Greenwood and Halmanton remained close to the University of California in Los Angeles, where they were wandering together and riding bicycles on the campus where they lived in the Fairfax region. Hamilton Greenwood recalls as one of the great founders he overlooked for the port to start quick rest periods.
“We will always know how to motivate each other, and contact each other on Earth,” Hamilton said.
Greenwood, who became a star in the second year season, has become a dual average in points and apostasy as young and old, where he finished every season as the first American. The front of the front of the 6 -feet and 9 feet began and appeared on its back about 10 to 12 feet from the basket before falsifying one way and unleashed the rotation girl.
One of his favorite memories, Kabroen, according to his brother, was a return against Washington at the end of his career in which Broken surveyed a double deficit of the late number, and defeated only a dark Gharbud only seconds before the bell.
David Greenwood calls “the bulls” on “Elvin Hayes” in Bulls in 1981 at the Capital Center in Landover, Maryland. Greenwood played with bulls from 1979-1985.
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The University of California in Los Angeles did not retrieve the wooden glory during the four Greenwood seasons, as it reached its fourth final in its first year in its first year and a regional final in its upper year. But Greenwood is still 15th in the school registration list at all, with 1721 points.
After Licers Magic Johnson chose with the first choice of the 1979 American Professional League draft, Chicago Bulls Greenwood ranked second as part of the huge reconstruction efforts. (Hamilton was also a lottery choice, as he moved to the tenth to Bestones.)
“He was not exciting, he was fixed,” Al -Greenwood said. “You know that you will get a double double every night, regardless of the result.”
Greenwood started every match in its first season in the American Professional League, with an average of 16.3 points and 9.4 rebounds while making the All-Rookie team. The bulls went 30-52, the total loss of more than three times the 17 losses that Greenwood teams absorbed in four Kabroen seasons.
But he persevered through the loss and a series of foot injuries caused by the running style in which he was hit by the Earth before his toes. Remember his brother returned to Los Angeles to play Lakers and took his shoes at home, saying that he felt as if she was full of broken glass.
“This is how his feet felt a lot of time, but he played even when he should not have it.” “I always call it authentic.”
The former prominent prominent at the University of California, Los Angeles, talks about his career during an event in the National Assassinary Basketball Hall on November 21, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo.
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Greenwood will undergo surgery to one of Achilles on one foot and two on the other hand, and he has not lost a full season in this operation.
In October 1985, before the widespread use of mobile phones, Greenwood learned that he was circulating to San Antonio in the future Famir Gervine Hall while listening to the radio. Late his 12 -year -old career in the US Professional League, he was a sudden contributor to a Detroit Bestone match when he won the 1990 US Professional League Championship. Hamilton worked at CBS SPORTS as part of the production team that broadcasts the finals that year.
“The best friend in the world in the team and winning the title, it was a joy for me,” Hamilton said.
Greenwood went to have many video stores A trainer in his mother motherVerbum Dei directed the State Championship in 1998 and 1999.
Greenwood survived his brother, Al; Sister, Laverne; Son, Gmail; And his daughter, Tiffany, along with his ex -wife, Joyce. Services are suspended.
