Michael Jordan called Reggie Lewis’ first step the best in the NBA, a rare compliment remembered by Jim Calhoun.

The Celtics dynasty of the 1980s that started under Larry Bird, Robert Parish, and Kevin McHale looked poised to continue with the rise of Lewis.

How much different could the NBA have been if Len Bias who died in 1986 and Reggie Lewis who died in 1993 both lived and played together.

In 1995, the Celtics posthumously honored Reggie Lewis by retiring his trademark No. 35. Lewis, the No. 22 pick in the 1987 NBA Draft, died less than two months after playing in his final NBA game.

Reggie was addicted to basketball, not drugs.” In college, Derrick Lewis said, he and Reggie Lewis did a lot of “heavy partying, mostly with marijuana. There was a lot of partying on the team.” ...

It is also the date of the 1987 NBA draft (held in New York City's Felt Forum), in which the Celtics took two players of note. The first was 6-foot-7 shooting guard Reggie Lewis, taken 22nd ...

For the longest time yesterday, Reggie Lewis’ basketball court behind Collington Square Elementary School in East Baltimore sat empty. Lewis had the court resurfaced last year and added six n… ...