The Georgia basketball family lost one of the greatest all time Bulldog cagers. Bob Lienhard died yesterday in Italy at the age of 70.
Along with Dominique Wilkins, Big Bob Lienhard is one of only two two-time Georgia basketball All-Americans . Like Wilkins a generation later, Lienhard’s decision to accept a basketball scholarship to play at the University of Georgia in 1966 was a recruiting coup.
High school All-American
Playing in the New York City Catholic League, Lienhard competed at Rice High in Harlem against Lew Alcindor, the player that would later be known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.