As the daughter of basketball legend Billy Cunningham, I’ve created this collection of NBA memories to honor the love and legacy that shaped our family’s story. Legacy Love celebrates our shared journey—from his childhood beginnings and high school days at Erasmus Hall to his collegiate career at UNC-Chapel Hill, and throughout his NBA years as a Philadelphia 76ers star player, championship coach, franchise owner, and CBS commentator. Through rare photographs, memorabilia, and heartfelt reflections, I celebrate both my father’s extraordinary career and the bond that keeps his legacy alive across generations.
We’ve thrown this pity-party year to the birds already, so let’s call it a loss. RIP 2020. Yet, it happens to be the rookie year that I found myself. So let’s not be so quick to give it the Big Bird. Since we missed my one-year blogiversary (November 26), we might as well muse on… Continue reading My A-muse-ing Rookie Year
It was the year of my birth, BC (before cancer), and Neil Armstrong landed on the moon to plant the American flag there. And here I am, in much the same way, moonwalking through my chemo rounds. I get a hero’s send-off (my gratitude chemo board and all those prayers and well wishes), I get… Continue reading Moonwalking Through My Chemo Daze
Never saw that movie. Why bother? My life has all the sci-fi/horror elements it needs to recreate the film just fine. Chemo invaded my body two and a half weeks ago, and I’m sure that’s when the aliens snatched away my perfectly good body and replaced it with a subpar shell. I didn’t notice right… Continue reading Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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