Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship, died Tuesday.
File: Former NBA player Willis Reed arrives at Tony La Russa's 3rd annual Leaders & Legends Gala on November 22, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark theto their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died Tuesday. He was 80.
Nicknamed "The Captain," Reed was the undersized center and emotional leader on the Knicks’ two NBA championship teams, with a soft shooting touch from the outside and a toughness to tussle with the era’s superstar big men on the inside. File: New York Knicks Willis Reed moves against Big Wilt Chamberlain of the Los Angeles Lakers in the first-half of Game 7 of the 1969-70 NBA Finals.
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