Jerry Lucas
Jerry Lucas was born in Middletown, Ohio, United States on March 30th, 1940 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 84, Jerry Lucas biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jerry Ray Lucas (born March 30, 1940) is an American basketball player.
He was a nationally recognized high school athlete, national college star at Ohio State, and a 1960 gold medalist and international player before appearing in the National Basketball Association as a professional player. (NBA)
Lucas, a collegian, coached the Ohio State Buckeyes to the 1960 national championship and three straight NCAA finals.
He is now the year's youngest Big Ten Player of the Year, and he has twice been named National Player of the Year.
Lucas, a professional, was named All-NBA First Team three times, an NBA All-Star seven times, and was named Most Valuable Player of the 1965 NBA All-Star Game among other accolades and awards.
In 1980, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Early life
Lucas was born in Middletown, Ohio, a 30,000-plus mile commuter between Dayton and Cincinnati. Middletown's basketball teams then became known as "The Basketball Capital of Ohio," based on the success of the basketball teams from the town's one high school. Before Lucas ever played at Middletown High, the Middies had already won five Ohio state high school championships between 1945 and 1955. In the early and mid-1950s, the team's local support was notably strong. Lucas, a tall youth, was encouraged to play the game and then dedicated himself to the town's game.
In addition to strong local support for Middletown High Basketball, the city was also home to a burgeoning summer outdoor basketball scene, which had started at Sunset Park. Previous Middletown players who had decided to play at the college level had successfully recruited new college students to participate in the summer. Sunset Park was one of the best summer basketball scenes in the area by the time Lucas was 15 years old in 1955. Lucas had already grown to 6'7" and had the opportunity to scrimmage against these college players, thus greatly improving his game. Lucas was, in fact, outplaying college-level big men before playing his first game for Middletown High.
By then, the budding basketball player had developed a remarkable, if unusual intelligence. Lucas, a straight-A student with a penchant for recalling his school assignments, started to develop memory games for himself as early as age nine. He'd be known for one thing: his ability to take words apart and reassemble them in alphabetical order. "Basketball" became "aabbekllst." He also applied his intelligence to his teaching in the game.
Personal life
Lucas has been a committed Christian since his time in the NBA, memorizing major portions of the New Testament, and a large number of his new speaking engagements are at churches. He met Treva Lucas when he was a student and divorced in 1974. Sharalee Beard, a contemporary Christian singer, married him the same year. Lucas and Sharalee divorced in the 1980s, and Cheri Wulff married Cheri Wulff. Lucas and his wife now live in Templeton, California. Roy Lucas, his younger brother, died in 2019.
Post-NBA career
Lucas later pursued publishing and educational pursuits after his NBA career came to an end. He co-authored The Memory Book, a New York Times best-seller, and he created the Lucas Learning System, a training program. Lucas has written over 70 other books, the majority of which were related to education or memorization, as well as several versions of The Memory Book.