Connie Hawkins
Died on October 6, 2017 at age 75
Hawkins was a high-flying basketball sensation who was molded on the playgrounds of New York and inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, but whose career was unjustly derailed when the N.B.A. barred him until his prime years had passed on suspicions of involvement in a college point-shaving scandal.
Notable Deaths 2017
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