Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal (SHAQ) wants the world to know about an overlooked star of the game, Lusia “Lucy” Harris, the woman Shaq calls “the greatest of all time”
, rescues Harris from an unjust obscurity. She won three straight national titles at tiny Delta State University in the 1970s, earned a silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games, and in 1977 became the first woman officially drafted by an NBA team—the New Orleans Jazz. But she made her mark in an era when women’s basketball, and women’s sports in general, didn’t draw much attention.The New York Timeson the New York Times website.
O’Neal signed on as an executive producer of the short and has been leveraging his social media reach to publicize the film. On Sunday he tweeted, “Behold The Queen of Basketball: Lucy Harris. Don’t sleep on this, watch the film now.” A day earlier he tweeted another link to the film, urging his 15 million-plus followers, “Help me blow this up for the GOAT!”“I have three daughters,” he notes. “This is the kind of story that I want them to see.
Harris towered over other kids her age as she was growing up, and was teased for it. She recalls classmates taunting her, “Long and tall and that’s all.” O’Neal, who would grow to 7’1”, endured that sort of treatment as a kid as well.
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