Willis Reed Jr.

(1942- ) lived in Omaha. Professional basketball player, coach, business executive, played eleven seasons for New York Knicks, with NBA championships in 1970 and 1973 and rank among top three scorers in team history, was head coach at Creighton University from 1981 to 1985, head coach for professional teams for three years, and became senior vice president of professional team, elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1981. Consult Current Biography (1973) 348-350 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, November 22, 1981, pp. 16-17, 19 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Basketball and Other Indoor Sports (Greenwood Press, 1989) 247-248 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures, Vol 2 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002) 259-260.

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