The Queen of Basketball, An Oscar Winning Op Doc

Update (Jan. 18): Lusia Harris a pioneering athlete who became a basketball phenomenon in the 1970s, made history as the first woman to score a basket in the Olympics and was one of the first two women inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame died on Jan. 18 in Mississippi. She was 66. As a child growing up in rural Mississippi, Lusia Lucy Harris often stayed up past her bedtime watching her favorite players, dreaming of one day playing on the same courts. Reaching 6 feet 3 inches by the time she was in high school, Harris was often called long and tall and thats all by her classmates but she knew her height would be an asset on the court. And she wasnt just tall enough to play the game. She was a rare talent who would go on to be a threetime national college champion and an Olympic silver medalist, making her a national sensation by the time she finished her college career. For an electrifying young basketball player on the national stage, success often co