Currently, basketball legend Lusia “Lucy” Harris is getting the attention she received in the mid-seventies when she began earning the title of “The Queen of Basketball,” a documentary produced by Shaquille O’Neal and Steph Curry.
It has been nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 2022 Oscars and previously won the “Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary Short.
Let’s start at the beginning or BH, before hoops. She was born Lusia Mae Harris Feb. 10, 1955, in Minter City, Mississippi to Willie and Ethel Harris, who worked as sharecroppers in cotton fields. The fourth of 11 children, she, like her siblings, all attended Amanda Elzy High School in Greenwood, Miss. Basketball was a common activity among the children, and a natural gravitation for Lusia as she starred for her school, captaining the team and becoming an all-state selection.
Almost from the moment she stepped on the court in 1973-’74 wearing the uniform of the Lady Statesmen, she established her dominance, leading Delta to a 16-2 record. But that wasn’t good enough to get the team into the national tournament. The team acquired the experience and Lusia’s leadership the following year and qualified for the national tournament.
It is rather ironic that Lusia, as the only Black player on the team, performed half of her games at the Walter Sillers Coliseum, named in tribute to an outspoken racist. And as we go to press that name has not been removed. The acclaim she compiled at Delta State was of equal importance to the U.S. national teams, particularly at the 1976 Olympic Games—a first for women—in which the team won a silver medal. This fell short of U.S.
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