Larry Hughes Brother Dies
At a time when NBA basketball players are focused on the competition of the 2006 NBA playoffs, tragedy has brought Larry Hughes back to reality.
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Sometimes irony can be as cruel as Ron Artest. I recently wrote an article, Kayleigh Lotti Keeps It Real , about a bright young athlete, who survived a heart condition and is one of sports'refreshing stories.
Just a few days after the article was posted, NBA guard, Larry Hughes, whose Cavaliers are embroiled in a playoff battle with Detroit, suffered a horrible tragedy. His brother, Justin, who, like Kayleigh Lotti, suffered from a congenital heart defect, died Thursday. He was 20.
Rarely is there a good time for death, but the timing was especially unkind in this instance. Justin died just a few days prior to game three of the Cavs-Pistons series, and a breath away from Mother's Day.
I've written quite a bit recently about good people in sports. I suppose I want to find some good in the world that I love so dearly - but a world that most often seems to be rife with bad events and lousy people.
Lotti is one of the good people and good stories. The Cleveland Cavaliers, a team that hadn't made the second round of the playoffs in 13 years, until knocking off Washington, is a nice sports story. And Larry Hughes is another good guy, someone who overcame injury to help the Cavs win in the playoffs and raise the hopes of a winner-starved city.
Now, ironically, on the heels of singing the praises of Kayleigh Lotti, Stuart Appleby and even a horse named Barbaro, tragedy has struck the world of sports and brought a man, a team and fans back to reality.
It's a sad time in the sports world and in the Hughes family, and the sports world once again needs a good story.
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