Terry Furlow
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Terry Furlow (October 18, 1954 – May 23, 1980) was an American basketball player. Furlow was a 6-foot-4 shooting guard from Flint, Michigan. He played collegiately at Michigan State. In 1975-76, as a senior, he led the Big Ten in scoring, and finished his career at MSU with 1717 points – which places him seventh on the Spartans' all-time scoring list.[1]
Furlow was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers with the 12th overall pick in the 1976 NBA Draft. In 1977, he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he averaged 11.0 points in a one-and-a-half seasons with the team. In 1979, he was traded to the Atlanta Hawks for point guard Butch Lee, and midway through the 1979-80 season, he was traded to the Utah Jazz, where he averaged a career-best 16 points per game.
On May 23, 1980, Furlow was killed in a car accident when he crashed into a pole on a highway in Ohio. Police reports said there were traces of cocaine and the tranquilizer Valium in his bloodstream.[2] He was 25 years old.
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- ^ http://www.flint.lib.mi.us/hallfame/05/furlowT.shtml
- ^ NY Times: An athlete, a cocaine addict: John Drew fights for his life
