Goodbye to Doug Moe at the age of 87.
Moe was an All-American at North Carolina when he was involved in a point shaving scandal, which he was later cleared of involvement, but he would never play in the NBA, although he would later receive a financial settlement.
Moe would play in the ABA for five seasons for the New Orleans Buccaneers, the 1968-69 champion Oakland Oaks, the Carolina Cougars, and the Virginia Squires before bad knees forced him from the game at thirty-three.
Moe played in three ABA All-Star games as a player before transitioning to coach as an assistant with boyhood friend Larry Brown with both Carolina and Denver before receiving his first head coaching position in 1976 with the San Antonio Spurs, where he would win two division titles in four years.
Moe would move to Denver in 1980, where he would make the playoffs in eight of his nine seasons, win two division titles, and win coach of the year in 1988.
Known for his high-scoring teams, Moe's teams often were rapped for lack of defense, and his final head coaching stop in Philadelphia in 1992 ended with a 19-37 record before he was fired.
Goodbye to Bo Lamar at the age of 74.
The leading scorer in NCAA basketball for Louisiana-Lafayette in the 1971-72 season and two-time first team All-American, Lamar averaged over thirty-one points per game for the Ragin Cajuns, and finished with 3,493 points for his career.
Lamar would be drafted with the first pick of the 1973 ABA draft by the San Diego Conquistadors and was named to the All-ABA team after averaging twenty points per game, which he would repeat in his second season with San Diego.
Lamar would play for Indiana in the ABA's final season after San Diego folded and for the Lakers in the first season after the NBA-ABA merger.
Lamar would be the radio analyst for Louisiana-Lafayette after his playing career.
Goodbye to Rondale Moore at the age of 25.
A second-round draft pick by the Cardinals from Purdue in the 2021 draft, Moore struggled with injuries in his three seasons in Arizona, but still caught 135 passes in those three years.
Moore was on the roster of Atlanta in 2024 and Minnesota in 2025, but didn't appear in a game due to injury.
Moore was a standout at Purdue in 2018 as a sophomore, catching 114 passes for over twelve hundred yards and twelve touchdowns, but would play in only seven games in his only two seasons with the Boilermakers.
Moore was the key player in Purdue's famous 2018 upset of second-ranked Ohio State, catching twelve passes for 170 yards and two touchdowns in Purdue's 49-20 stunner.
Goodbye to Bobby Douglas at the age of 83.
An Olympic freestyle wrestler for the United States in 1964 and 1968, Douglas handed Dan Gable an 11-1 loss in the 1968 Olympic trials.
Douglas would later become the head coach at Iowa State, where he coached Cael Sanderson, and at Arizona State, where he would win his only national title as a coach in 1988.
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