As the 2024 NBA draft nears, and as we get closer to the 2024 Paris Olympics, there is a legendary basketball player that deserves to be mentioned. An otherworldly talent whose name is linked closely ...

Lusia Harris was the daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers. She was the daughter who came home from school, went to work picking cotton and then rushed home to the basket. Few families in her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year’s “The Queen of Basketball,” a documentary on Harris’ life, was recently shortlisted for the Oscars. Lusia Harris, known ...

Her family released a written statement to ESPN: “We are deeply saddened to share the news that our angel, matriarch, sister, mother, grandmother, Olympic medalist, The Queen of Basketball, Lusia ...

Lusia marks the third manatee release for the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens in 2020 Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The news, confirmed by her family, comes amid growing buzz for the Ben Proudfoot-directed short documentary about Harris titled ...

Shaquille O'Neal, executive producer on the project, told The Hollywood Reporter that Harris "was the greatest ever." By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Lusia “Lucy” Harris, subject of ...

The U.S. women’s basketball team, hoping to win its seventh straight gold medal, hasn’t lost an Olympic game in 29 years. The squad has won eight of the 10 Olympic tournaments it has entered, and it ...

In February for Black History Month, USA TODAY Sports is publishing the series 28 Black Stories in 28 Days. We examine the issues, challenges and opportunities Black athletes and sports officials ...

Lusia Harris, who became the only woman to be officially drafted by an NBA team and scored the first points in women’s basketball history at the Olympics, died Tuesday, her family announced. She was ...