Word: ladner
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...that he returned to college to get his degree and a slew of honorary doctorates besides. He earned them with a style of living, not playing. New York recalls the two A.B.A. titles he celebrated with the Nets, but Mississippi's Necaise Crossing remembers that he came to Wendell Ladner's funeral. The Net forward Ladner died in an off-season plane crash. He was a Li'l Abner from a piney-woods logging town, neither of them very easy for a black man to reach. But Erving got to Ladner, and he got to Necaise Crossing. "That...