Lusia News & Updates

Lusia Harris, the only woman ever drafted into the NBA, has a legacy that goes beyond basketball

As the 2024 NBA draft nears, and as we get closer to the 2024 Paris Olympics, there is a legendary b...

Jun 22, 2024 • Yahoo! Sports

Lusia Harris died last month. That's when many learned she had been drafted by the NBA

Lusia Harris was the daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers. She was the daughter who came home from ...

Feb 16, 2022 • Yahoo! Sports

Lusia Harris, first and only woman drafted into NBA, dies at 66

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year’s “The Queen of ...

Jan 19, 2022 • Yahoo

Lusia ‘Lucy’ Harris ‘The Queen of Basketball’ Featured in a Shaquille O’Neal Led Documentary, Dead at 66

Her family released a written statement to ESPN: “We are deeply saddened to share the news that ou...

Jan 18, 2022 • Black Enterprise

Lusia Harris Dies: Pioneering Women’s Hoops Star And Subject Of Oscar-Shortlisted ‘The Queen Of Basketball’ Was 66

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The news, confirmed by her fam...

Jan 18, 2022 • Yahoo

Legendary Basketball Player Lusia Harris Dead At 66

Lusia “Lucy” Harris, the first and only woman to have her name called in NBA Draft history, has ...

Jan 19, 2022 • AOL

Remembering legend Lusia Harris, the only woman to be officially drafted by the NBA

Athletes and admirers are paying tribute to Lusia Harris, the women's basketball legend who died Tue...

Jan 18, 2022 • WUWM

Lusia Harris — a women’s basketball pioneer who scored the 1st points in the Olympics and was picked in the NBA draft — dies at age 66

Lusia Harris, who became the only woman to be officially drafted by an NBA team and scored the first...

Jan 17, 2022 • Chicago Tribune

Lusia Harris, First Woman Drafted by NBA and Subject of ‘The Queen of Basketball,’ Dies at 66

Shaquille O'Neal, executive producer on the project, told The Hollywood Reporter that Harris "was th...

Jan 18, 2022 • The Hollywood Reporter

Lusia Harris, the only woman officially drafted by an NBA team, dies at 66

Lusia Harris, who became the only woman to be officially drafted by an NBA team and scored the first...

Jan 19, 2022 • NBC News

Lusia Harris, one of two women drafted by NBA, dies at 66

Lusia Harris, one of only two women to be drafted by the NBA, died at the age of 66 on Tuesday. "We ...

Jan 19, 2022 • Yahoo

'Queen of Basketball' Lusia Harris, First and Only Woman Officially Drafted by the NBA, Dead at 66

"Watching her play was marvelous. There was no one like her," Lusia Harris' Olympic teammate Ann Mey...

Jan 19, 2022 • People

Lusia Harris Scored The First Olympic Basket In 1976. The Sport Would Never Be The Same.

The U.S. women’s basketball team, hoping to win its seventh straight gold medal, hasn’t lost an ...

Aug 02, 2021 • FiveThirtyEight

Lusia Harris, trailblazing basketball Hall of Famer and only woman officially drafted by NBA team, dies at 66

Lusia Harris, who won three national championships at Delta State and scored the first points in Oly...

Jan 19, 2022 • ESPN

Shaquille O’Neal on the Legacy of Lusia “Lucy” Harris, Subject of ‘The Queen of Basketball’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lusia “Lucy” Harris is per...

Jan 18, 2022 • Yahoo