Just how dirty of a player was former Boston Celtics big man Clyde Lovellette in the 1950s and 1960s of the early NBA? A member of the Celtics frontcourt just when the storied ball club started to get ...

Wilt Chamberlain threatened to knock out Red Auerbach after flooring Clyde Lovellette: "If you don't shut up and get out of here, I am going to put you down there with him" originally appeared on ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas men’s basketball legend Clyde Lovellette died Wednesday evening in North Manchester, Indiana, where he lived, his daughter Cindy confirmed with KU officials. Lovellette, who ...

When Clyde Lovellette called 21-year-old Keith Freeman in the mid-1980s, it didn’t take long for the then-Huntington College basketball coach to realize the old school Hall of Famer, who made a name ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Clyde Lovellette, the Hall of Fame forward who led Kansas to the 1952 national championship before helping the U.S. win gold at the Helsinki Olympics, died Wednesday after a battle ...

Seattle, Wash.? Pressed viciously and roughly, but in command all the way, Kansas University steadily ground down battling and foul-happy St. John’s of Brooklyn 80 to 63 here Wednesday night to win ...

United States basketball legend Clyde Lovellette, an Olympic gold medallist at Helsinki 1952, has died of cancer at the age of 86. Standing at six feet and 10 inches, Lovellete was considered one of ...

Clyde Lovellette, 6’9” center for the Kansas University basketball team, right, holds the ball aloft during a workout at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Dec. 11, 1950, while teammates angle for ...