Former Houston Rockets guard and current player development coach John Lucas has had quite a basketball journey. From a stellar college career that saw him three times achieve All-American status with the University of Maryland and earn the number one draft pick in 1976 with the Rockets, to a tumultuous NBA career that saw him voted to the All-Rookie team in 1977, but later implode in the mid-80s due to drug addiction.
But there’s no doubting what Lucas did at the collegiate level, and he’s being rewarded for that by being inducted to the D.