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RIP Armen Gilliam

http://aol.sportingnews.com/nba/story/2011-07-06/armen-gilliam-dies-from-heart-attack-while-playing-basketball

Back before the internet, the ESPN score ticker, and even the Headline News sports ticker I used to check the Trenton Times as a kid for last night's box scores and for the lists of top scorers and rebounders in the NBA (though those lists only appeared on the weekends.)

One of my clearest childhood memories was seeing "Gilliam, NJ" appear on that top scorers list. In 1995-96 he put together a season on the Nets to the tune of 18.3 ppg, 9.1 rpg, 1.7 apg, 0.9 spg, and 0.7 bpg. It was his finest season as an NBA player and he played all 78 games of it as a Net. That was the true start of my being a Nets fan. 

 

RIP.