Louisville Magazine

DEC 2013

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Photo by Gail Kamenish Felton Spencer (1986-'90) Dwayne Morton (1991-'94) Otis George (2001-'05) Another Eastern grad, seven-foot Felton Spencer had to bide his time and grab whatever game minutes he could for three years while Ellison ruled the center spot. He did play enough to foul out a U of L record 13 times during his sophomore and junior seasons, however. So he amazed everybody when he took charge in his senior year, showing new moves around the basket and fouling out just four times in double the previous season's minutes. He led the team in scoring, cashing in on a record 68.1 percent of his shot attempts, as well as in rebounding and shot-blocking. Spencer spent seven productive seasons with the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves (sixth overall draft pick), Utah Jazz and Golden State Warriors before his playing time diminished and led to his 2002 retirement. He's now assistant men's basketball coach at Spalding University. The U of L career of Central High standout and 1990 Kentucky Mr. Basketball Dwayne Morton began inauspiciously: He was ruled Prop 48 ineligible for his freshman year, along with his Georgia-born physical and stylistic "twin," Greg Minor. Both were solid 6-6 forwards who scored more than 1,000 points in their three years, but they played two seasons with media magnet Cliff Rozier and each was somewhat diminished by the similarity of the other. Morton, though, holds the U of L records for three-point percentage in a season (53.1 percent in '92-'93) and career (46.1 percent). He was drafted by the Golden State Warriors for the '94-'95 NBA season before heading abroad to play for teams in Israel, England, France, Dominican Republic and Bulgaria, where, last we knew, he was playing on his fourth Bulgarian team. A native of the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica, Otis George will forever be remembered by Louisville fans for two games: his nine-point, seven-rebound, three-assist, fve-steal performance in a win against then-No. 5 Cincinnati in January '04, and — this is the big one — his CBS Player of the Game turn against thenNo. 1 Kentucky (at Lexington) on Dec. 27, 2003, in which he led his victorious team in scoring and rebounding. George played with two NBA Development League teams before leaving the U.S. to play in South Korea and Italy, where he currently stars on Sicily's Orlandina Basket. 12.13 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 39

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