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Nancy was brought up more times than can be counted in the service Wednesday by Pacers Sports & Entertainment titled Boom Baby! The Life and Times of Bobby Slick Leonard. It was a public celebration of life for the Hall of Fame coach who won three ABA titles with the Pacers and was the longtime team broadcaster who died April 13 at 88.
The format was fashioned after a basketball game Leonard s life in game form first quarter, second, halftime, third, fourth and then overtime.
But it was in that overtime that Nancy took the stage and, amid tears and laughter, she remembered her husband.
CARMEL Dixieland jazz, sounding like a party on the streets of New Orleans, blared as people filled Carmel United Methodist Church. Life as Bobby Slick Leonard knew it was a celebration, a place to do good on earth, love others, lift people up and have fun.
The blanket of snow that had graced Indiana that morning was surely his dad s doing, his son Billy Leonard said.
Beyond Leonard s accolades in basketball and his hall of fame status, he was a husband, a father, a grandfather, a coach and a friend. And he loved to joke.
First, the snow fell in late April the morning of Leonard s funeral and then the lyrics to What a Friend We Have in Jesus, didn t appear on the screen as funeral attendees stood up to sing.
Bobby Slick Leonard, Hoosiers and Pacers icon, dies at 88
Zak Keefer and J. Michael
IndyStar
INDIANAPOLIS Bobby “Slick” Leonard, the Depression-era kid from Terre Haute who grew up to lead his home state Hoosiers to an NCAA title, build the best franchise in ABA history and, later, save professional basketball in Indianapolis has died, the Pacers announced Tuesday. Bobby Leonard was 88.
Slick he earned his nickname in a late-night gin rummy game with Lakers teammate George Mikan was profoundly Hoosier, as Indiana as they come. He was beloved first as the All-American guard who sank the free throw that clinched Indiana’s 1953 national championship, then as a ruthless competitor who lasted eight seasons in the NBA, then as the Indiana Pacers’ hard-driving coach who turned the fledgling ABA upstart into three-time league champions.
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