“The Basketball 100” is available Nov. 26. Read David Aldridge’s introduction and all of the excerpts here. Walt Frazier’s reverence for Willis Reed ran so deep that he copied his handwritin ...

1985: Willis Reed press conference announcing his resignation on May 1. 1985: Creighton basketball coach Willis Reed. 1981: Creighton coach Willis Reed talks basketball with Bluejay Tony Pruitt.

“Willis Reed was the ultimate team player and consummate leader,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “My earliest and fondest memories of NBA basketball are of watching ...

New York Knicks hero Willis Reed has died, the National Basketball Retired Players Association said Tuesday. He was 80 years old. Reed led the Knicks to two championship titles in the 1970s ...

Willis Reed, who died Tuesday ... NY Post He took over as head coach in 1988. After Reed was hired the next year as GM and vice president of basketball operations, he drafted Derrick Coleman ...

The school retired his number and named its court after Reed in 2022. FILE - New York Knicks NBA basketball player Willis Reed celebrates in the dressing room after the Knicks beat the Los Angeles ...

Willis Reed, a seven-time NBA All-Star, two-time champion and Basketball Hall of Famer, died Tuesday at the age of 80, the National Basketball Retired Players Association confirmed Tuesday.

Willis Reed ... who dealt with Reed in a different role — when Reed was the GM of the Nets and hired Beard as the coach in 1994. “He was a much better person than a basketball player.