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Clyde Lovellette was the first Triple Crown winner, [8] completing the trifecta over a two-year span with a college championship and Olympic gold medal in 1952 followed by an NBA title in 1954. [6] K.C. Jones and Bill Russell were teammates on championship teams in college ( San Francisco Dons ), the NBA ( Boston Celtics ) and the Olympics ...
With the NBA championship ring, Buckner completed a Triple Crown résumé, one of only eight players in basketball history to do so. [9] [10] In three seasons with Boston, Buckner made small but regular contributions for a powerful Celtics team. The club returned to the Finals in 1985, but the Lakers exacted their revenge, winning in six games.
The team made the NBA finals again, and this time New York won. This made Lucas one of the first to become a champion at every level of the game – high school, college, Olympics, and NBA (a feat matched by Quinn Buckner, and Magic Johnson). He is one of eight players who has ever achieved the basketball Triple Crown. [22] [23]
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Triple Crown Sports, a company based in Fort Collins, Colorado that specializes in the promotion of amateur sporting events, [1] created the WNIT in 1994 as a preseason counterpart to the then-current National Women's Invitational Tournament (NWIT). After the NWIT folded in 1996, Triple Crown Sports resurrected the postseason version in 1998 ...
More than 100 family members and friends packed the Heights gymnasium on Wednesday to watch T.J. Williams make it official to Wichita State.
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