RIP Dr. Jack Ramsay

Keep in mind that it's "Doctor" Quant ...

 

I grew up listening to him on the radio and always got excited whenever he was on the call for a game. RIP to one of the best ambassadors the sport ever had.

 

Correction ... Ramsay had, and Biden has, an Ed.D. Big difference (generally) as compared to a Ph.D.

 

You youngsters didn't see Dr. Jack in his prime. The man knew basketball. He will be missed. RIP

 

Read somewhere that he was a member of the Underwater Demolition Team (UDT), member as an Ensign from 1943 to 1946. The UDTs were the forerunners of the SEAL Teams, and conducted extraordinarily dangerous missions during WWII.Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) member as an Ensign from 1943 to 1946. The UDTs were the forerunners of the SEAL Teams, and conducted extraordinarily dangerous missions during WWII.

 

They were called "Frog Men" in those days, IIRC.

 

Dr. Tom Prichard and Dr. Jerry Graham laugh.

 

So does Dr. Cosby.

 

RIP, Dr. Jack.

He was the coach of the 76ers for the first NBA game I ever attended when I was 8 years old.

Twenty years later I was interviewing him.

 

Didn't realize he was quite that old. That 1977 Portland team was one of my all-time favorites. Bill Walton, Bob Gross, Dave Twardzik. I was a young guy living in the northwest at the time and, before the age of cable TV, I would listen to a lot of their games on radio.

 

Probably didn't realize he was quite that old because he physically active all his life. He was a triathlete up until age 70.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/sports/basketball/26ramsay.html?_r=0

Jim Durham (died in 2012) and Dr. Jack were a hell of a radio team.

 

Bob,

I liked your story from his last go-around with the Pacers. Good man all around.

As a boy, I had the NBA Guide (a yearly booklet) and the NBA Register. The Guide always had the pictures of each team's owner, head coach and GM. Still remember Ramsay's busy eyebrows and that he was born in 1924. The times I met him, I was always impressed by how quickly his mind worked and how in concert it was with his words. Even into his 80's, he was extremely well-spoken, lucid and didn't really sound like a, well, an "old man".