Amidst the exciting NBA Finals matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers, featuring big names like Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Julius Erving, Spencer Haywood ...

Spencer Haywood was a defendant, along with the Seattle SuperSonics, in a landmark court case in the early 1970s about the NBA’s rule prohibiting players from entering the league until their ...

A gift for scoring landed Spencer Haywood five All-Star selections in Seattle and, later, a championship with the Lakers. From NBA.com Staff Spencer Haywood played 12 seasons in the NBA and was a ...

And that story starts with the day in 1964 that Spencer Haywood went to jail. The Lakers and many other NBA players used their time in Orlando, Fla., for activism to fight social injustice and ...

If one player embodies the modern business of basketball, it’s Spencer Haywood, who—though it’s now mostly forgotten—laid the groundwork for the last 40 years of pro basketball.

Two sons of Mississippi: one Black and the other white. One, Spencer Haywood, was born in Silver City in 1949, and by the time he was 13, became the main bread winner in his family by picking ...

There hasn’t been any blood, but there’s been a whole lot of sweat and tears from Spencer Haywood over the past few months. The former Seattle SuperSonic/Hall of Famer was portrayed rather ...

Spencer Haywood Getty Images “And to win this one in a pandemic, away from your family, putting your life on the line with no one knowing the lasting effect of COVID, LeBron is the real deal. We ...

There hasn’t been any blood, but there’s been a whole lot of sweat and tears from Spencer Haywood over the past few months. The former Sonic/Hall of Famer was portrayed rather unflatteringly ...