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HOFer, ex-Houston coach Guy Lewis dies at 93

Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame coach Guy Lewis -- best known for leading Houston's iconic Phi Slama Jama teams in the 1980s -- died Thursday, according to an announcement from Hunter Yurachek, vice president for intercollegiate athletics at Houston.

Lewis was 93.

"He was ahead of his time in terms of inclusion and treating everyone the way they liked to be treated at a time when it wasn't too popular to do that," Clyde Drexler, who starred on the Phi-Slama-Jama teams alongside fellow Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon, told Fox 26's Mark Berman. "I give him credit for being a stand-up leader in the face of adversity.