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Cunningham’s Court is a collection of Billy Cunningham NBA memories honoring the legend, one of the Top 75 Players of All Time. This series preserves memorabilia and stories from his extraordinary basketball career as a player, coach, broadcaster, and team owner. Each numbered entry adds another piece to the complete picture of his legacy, assembled with love by his daughter.

Growing Into Your Height
Legacy Stories

Growing Into Your Height

April 17, 2020March 31, 2025 Stephanie Ortiz2 Comments

Especially the more unnerving today feels, the better off we are rooting ourselves in the wisdom of our ancestors and the good old days. There’s nothing like jumping into a good memory so we can muse about something other than you-know-what, which spirals into doom and gloom thinking. Let’s find a good story to lift… Continue reading Growing Into Your Height

The Day After…MLK
Legacy Stories

The Day After…MLK

April 3, 2020March 31, 2025 Stephanie Ortiz2 Comments

The day after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. died on that fateful Thursday evening in April, the world needed non-violence while the basketball game played on; now we’re getting called to sit in (if we want to call it that) and the games have stopped. Times haven’t changed much, or have they? The Friday after… Continue reading The Day After…MLK

The Day of What Ifs
Legacy Stories

The Day of What Ifs

March 27, 2020March 31, 2025 Stephanie Ortiz2 Comments

Since we’re all about finding games to play these days, board games aren’t the only way to have some fun, let’s play the what if game. It’s especially appropriate if we go back to this exact day in history in 1968 when it all started. It’s the day the playoffs stopped, not for everyone the… Continue reading The Day of What Ifs

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I’m Stephanie Ortiz, a storyteller–like a professional organizer; only I use words instead of boxes. I’ve written fiction and nonfiction since being a journalism major at UNC-Chapel Hill–before there were iPhones, to know a story when it hits me. And whenever I need a muse, there’s always real life to draw from.

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