Official Publication of the NBRPA GOOD MOURNING! Alonzo Mourning SHINES NBRPA Goes to All-Star Game Inside: Luxury Lifestyle LaRue Martin Earl Lloyd Gives Made This Game A Basketball Lesson WINTER 2012 • VOL. 1 ISSUE 1 www.legendsofbasketball.com ad1.pdf 1 2/15/12 11:34 AM You Know Basketball. We Know Central Florida Real Estate. Let’s Put Our Knowledge To Work For You. C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Give us a call or visit our website to learn more about our exclusive inventory and to search all of Orlando’s luxury communities. Premier Realty Partners Tel: 407.965.1155 Toll Free: 800.580.1194 www.prpfl.com steve healy chocky burks matt tomaszewski ad1.pdf 1 2/15/12 11:34 AM You Know Basketball. INSIDE this ISSUE We Know Central Florida Real Estate. Volume 1, Issue 1 • Winter 2012 FEATURES NBRPA REBOUND MAGAZINE Let’s Put Our Knowledge PUBLISHER/SALES Eric Carlyle 8 GO ‘ZO [email protected] Alonzo Mourning, NBRPA Legend ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER To Work For You. Connie Wardman 12 ALL-STAR WEEKEND SCHEDULE [email protected] EXECUTIVE EDITOR Paul Corliss 14 LuXURY LIFESTYLES EDITOR Matthew Fish [email protected] 17 CeLEBRATING EARL LLOYD ART DIRECTOR Jay Gelnett 19 PROFILE: LARUE MARTIN [email protected] WRITERS C Brian Patrick, Brett Rice 22 NEW COLUMNIST DICK WEBSITE/IT M David Riach Y BARNEtt’s HOOP DREAMS [email protected] CM SALES Tyler Skarda • [email protected] MY Randy Bressler • [email protected] CY DEPARTMENTS NBRPA CMY CEO K Arnie Fielkow Give us a call or visit our website 5 TIP-OFF [email protected] Eric Carlyle, Publisher to learn more about our exclusive SR COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Paul Corliss inventory and to search all of 6 FISH TaLK [email protected] STAFF Matt Fish, Editor Orlando’s luxury communities. Adrian Colón, Scott Roskind, Kim Durr, Sam Vincent 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NBRPA BOARD MEMBERS Arnie Fielkow, NBRPA CEO Robert A. 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Legends of Basketball I am humbled and grateful by the opportu- National Basketball Retired Players Association nity to work with the NBRPA, its leadership team and its members. Please remember, I am here to serve you. Charity Benefit You will be hearing from us again in May. for Kids Fight Cancer andLegends Care Until then, enjoy our inaugural issue. Foundation m Sport on, Eric Carlyle Wednesday, May 2, 2012 Publisher Ocotillo Golf Resort [email protected] 3751 South Clubhouse Dr e Chandler, Arizona 85248 Please contact Marcy Lobliner 602-299-5433 reboundmag.com 5 FROM THE EDITOR FISH TaLK by Matthew Fish The Color of Acceptance s an NBA alumnus, Africa. What a great experience it I’ve been a member was for all of us in my small town of the NBRPA for the to have a black person now liv- last seven years, enjoy- ing there. Even though he was Aing the opportunities to make the “odd man out,” Solomon was new friends, rekindle old friend- accepted with open arms by every- ships and fraternize with former one in town due to his gigantic opponents and teammates. As smile and loving personality. But I’ve grown and matured, the Leg- after living with us for a year, we ends of Basketball has become an learned that his mother (a single important part of my life. parent) had passed away which The inaugural issue of left Solomon’s younger brother all REBOUND, the new NBRPA maga- alone. zine, is making its debut at the All- Enter Theophalis Mowanga Star Weekend where part of the Dude, my other black brother. weekend’s agenda is a salute to Thanks to an unrelenting bat- Black History Month. I’m happy tle waged by my mother to get I felt the love of my brothers that my first official letter from both boys a green card, Theo Solomon and Theo as I became the editor is about Black History was allowed to come to Iowa and the “odd man out,” learning what Month, something near and dear live with us to finish his school- it felt like being in the minority. to my heart. ing from fifth grade through high As I embraced the differences, I school while Solomon went on Growing up in small town Iowa hoped that others would feel the to college, eventually graduating as a white kid in an all-white town same way. And just like Solomon, from the University of Iowa. from a predominantly white state, I was accepted with open arms racial diversity wasn’t available to Sports diversity in my area after teammates got to know me me when I was young. Then dur- wasn’t much better than racial and what I stood for. I realized ing my freshman year in middle diversity—basketball is Iowa’s that what most of us are looking school, my family decided to host sport of choice. So having signed for is a feeling of belonging and a foreign exchange student for a a Division 1 scholarship before acceptance, a lesson I now teach year. For the first time in my life I I started a varsity game in high my own children. As professional was going to meet someone from school, I began my basketball athletes, as role models for many, outside my limited world. career in college that grew into a we have a wonderful opportunity Enter my newest brother, Solo- 10-year career playing the game to highlight the importance of mon Simon Dude, a South Afri- professionally. But this time the diversity—it really does represent can from a tribe called Xhosa. tables were turned and I was the the universal need for belonging This was during the mid-80s when “token white guy” on several dif- and acceptance no matter what Apartheid was the law in South ferent professional teams. our color. 6 Winter 2012 Executive Summary Dear NBRPA Member, hank you for reading the pages of REBOUND, the new official magazine for you, our members. We are excited to launch our new publication this All-Star TWeekend and share the first issue with all of our members here in Orlando. This being my first Legends All-Star Weekend as your new CEO, I am excited to welcome everyone to a fun-filled weekend of both new and traditional events: The 13th Annual Legends Brunch, a his- toric Hardwood Pioneers Reflect Roundtable event celebrating Black History Month, an NBA Welcome Party at Epcot Center, a members’ breakfast meet- ing, a fan/member welcome reception, an NBRPA basketball clinic at NBA Jam Session, Legends Care community events, an All-Star Strike 300 Bowling Challenge, an NBRPA Orlando Chapter golf tourna- ment and an Orlando Chapter Sunday Night Fire & Ice after-party. Orlando has been a key NBA market since the Orlando Magic began play in 1989, and we are purpose to uphold the legacies of basketball legends excited to celebrate the history of our sport in this and we are very proud to do that this weekend, in city and across the state of Florida with the support of our local Orlando NBRPA Chapter. This year’s conjunction with the NBA. All-Star Weekend also marks the 20th anniversary of Our Association, founded in 1992 by Mayor Dave Magic Johnson’s return to the NBA All-Star Game Bing, Archie Clark, Dave Cowens, Oscar Robertson since 1992 after being diagnosed as HIV-positive.