Jerry Lucas
Basketball Player
7-time NBA All-Star power forward/center who won an NBA Championship with the New York Knicks in 1973 and also played for the Cincinnati Royals and San Francisco Warriors in his 11-year career.
He set an Ohio high school record with a two game scoring mark of 97 points as a member of Middletown High School.
While playing for Ohio State, he won a gold medal in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games.
He married Cheri Wulf in 1989.
In 1996, he was named to the 50 Greatest Players in NBA history list alongside other legends including Michael Jordan .