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Triple Crown
Three former Louisville players are among a select group of just eight members to be
on teams that won a state high school championship, NCAA title and NBA championship.
| Player | High School
| College | NBA Team
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| Lucius Allen | Wyandotte (65), Kansas City
| UCLA 67-68 | Bucks 71 |
| Quinn Buckner | Thornridge (71-72), Phoenix, IL
| Indiana 76 | Celtics 84 |
| Magic Johnson | Lansing (77), MI
| Michigan St. 79 | Lakers 80,82,85,87,88
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| Jerry Lucas | Middletown (58), OH
| Ohio St. 60 | Knicks 73
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| Rodney McCray | Mt. Vernon (78-79), NY
| Louisville 80 | Bulls 93
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| Rick Robey | Brother Martin (74), New Orleans
| Kentucky 78 | Celtics 81
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| Billy Thompson | Camden (82), NJ
| Louisville 86 | Lakers 87-88
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| Milt Wagner | Camden (79), NJ
| Louisville 86 | Lakers 88
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Buckner, Johnson and Lucas make up a unique group that also
won an Olympic gold medal. McCray was a member of the 1980 U.S. team that boycotted the XXIInd Olympiad in Moscow after the Soviet Unions invasion of Afghanistan.
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