Remember LMU's Hank Gathers 30 years after his tragic death on the basketball court | E:60 

They will forever will. I’m 44 and my first season watching college hoops 89-90 season and fell in love w LMU team.

Facts

It sure is

Agreed. Praying for Damar!!

SMH.. You DON'T know that!! College and pros are TWO DIFFERENT things

@@BBAKER22 calm down and let him rest. He couldve been one.

He scored 40 on Shaq - just say you don’t know basketball and move on

Dude. I am pretty sure you are joking...but nobody would know for sure. He was not built for the pro game. He had no outside game and was to small for a nba power forward. More than likely he would have rode the bench for 7-8 years and done.

His poor free throw shooting would have hurt him.

Hall of Famer? LMAO... You're living in FANTASY LAND

@@Brian-tx1pq it pains me to agree with most of your points. Problem is, if his path was the HOF, it wouldn’t be from scoring for everything you pointed out however, if he specialized in other aspects of the game the same way Dennis Rodman (same height) did and get lucky to play on stacked teams that win chips, I can see that happening.

He scored 48 pts without free throws. Shaq even praise him before his death that he is so tough to guard on the paint. It's pretty weird coz he had a smooth touch in the paint but maybe his big hand and his form struggles him to shoot on ft line. But you can see he adjusted it on his left hand and even if he just try it he would make it coz he has the touch of scoring the ball. He is a scoring machine average 32 a game leading the whole NCAA higher than Shaq. Gathers was expected to be the no.1 or 2 in the draft to compete with Derick Coleman. Coleman honestly said that Gathers would be the no.1 with a mile. That's how great Gathers is as a basketball player.

@King Woochi just finished watching it... Sad story, but a Great film. I love basketball... unfortunately u get to an age where it can't love you back... 🏀 for Life 🧬

Do white people count?

@@pearlmax no

@@TheShootersBay Hope you're joking. Especially considering your channel revolves around constitutional rights, therefore I would assume you should be for equality.

@@pearlmax of course I'm joking because that had to be one of the dumbest questions I ever heard asked..

@@TheShootersBay Not really a dumb question considering the use of "brothers" by the OP, is likely in reference to black people specifically.

One of the scariest things I've even seen

It was like he was fighting to get up but couldn’t.

Same it’s shocking

Don't Talk Like That !!! Learn how to have a moral conscious.

fab5frk he isnt talking hes typing

@@fab5frk that's not bad to say. He could've been a great nba player if he didn't die. He was believed to be one back then.

NOBODY knows that. College and pros are two different things...Get REAL

@@BBAKER22 high school and nba are two different things so what's your point? He had a lot of talent but also work ethic. Yes could have been great in NBA

What story?

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Theu are related.

@@myfriendbobby Len Bias was using cocaine; Hank had undiagnosed heart issue. The two are NOT the same.

@@carolynsermeno3504 Hank’s issue was diagnosed.

@@jacobesnard I'm sorry, you are absolutely correct. I meant to say that he was undiagnosed until after game with SB. My dad, Art Jones, was the student manager for the program when he attended the University in 1946-50. We were at games in the old Alumni Memorial Gym as far back as I can remember. 3 of his 4 kids (me and my two brothers) attended there, as well as his granddaughter. My dad was entered into the LMU Basketball Hall of Fame as the program's most loyal supporter-and when he died, we found a box that had every stat sheet for every home game of the 89-90 season, as well as all of the articles from Smith and Street and the LA Times, including Conrad's drawing of the guys in the huddle, and Mike Downey's column after they lost to UNLV. Super fan, and I can't make myself throw it all away.

@@carolynsermeno3504 k

LMAO....NOBODY including you knows that!!

HIs final seconds were in the hospital, hours away from this.

that’s cap lmao

@@mavericks4269 cap?

LMAO... Yeah right...

@@mavericks4269 of course it is!! The guy is just looking for attention

I know, right? So sad. My best friend has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. She said on the medication it saps your strength. She feels faint just walking. What I want to know is who let him play with an enlarged heart? Even with medication he should not have been playing.

Ahhhh okay, so it was Hank’s own fault he died. Had he only taken his meds, he’d be alive. I’m glad you can provide this armchair QB medical report on Hank and his condition *sarcasm*

shawn vire Would’ve been a perennial All-Star easily.

He's drop dead the best player I've ever seen easily

I said the same thing . I thought he had pass away before shaq got to LSU. Learn something new everyday.

@@nypana1202 Shaq was drafted in 1992 by Magic so he was able to face him in late 80s to 90s. He was in college at LSU.

Lol...NOBODY knows that!! DON'T be RIDICULOUS

@@BBAKER22 whatever you say baker's man roll em up roll em up as fast as you can

Curtis 23 He’d stopped taking his medication and not informed anyone. He felt like it was draining his energy. His autopsy literally showed no trace of it in his body, meaning he’d probably been off it for some time by that point.

He CHOSE too

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He was drop dead the better player than those two but not as fly as Kobe.

C'mon man. He was not built for pro ball. Would have been good off the bench.

@@myfriendbobby Moron.

LMAO... You OBVIOUSLY NEVER saw him play

Lol... WRONG

Check again.

Don’t forget Ben Wilson, who was the Lebron before Lebron and murdered before his HS graduation

I'm not sure you can tell the story without showing it to convey just how shocking it was. It was shown repeatedly when it actually happened

@@WhiskeySamMcGee That makes no sense whatsoever. people don't need to see someone actually DYING to feel a sense of loss. This is simply "sensationalizing" ones death. Even one clip that shows Hank gathers being whisked away in a stretcher with his feet showing, would have sufficed. This notion that we have to see such "graphic" displays of someone dying is just people that have a sick and twisted obsession with death. There was nothing to be gained by showing that poor man dying but views and selling advertisements to the public. Just because you're a person with no ethics and basic humanity, doesn't mean everyone else doesn't. I watched this, because i had no idea they would show him DYING! We all know when he died, why he died and how he died. I don't need to actually SEE HIM DIE! And your excuse that they showed it repeatedly at the time is equally pitiful. You do know that as a people, we should want to grow and do things better in society as time progresses, right? By your logic, Hank gathers, a black man, should not have been a free man and still a slave, along with some 40 million black people in America, because as you put it, " It was shown repeatedly when it actually happened" Yeah, at the time black people were enslaved and had no rights, it was widely accepted! And even when black people were free, "JIM CROW" laws were the law of the land! So there goes your false and flawed logic....

videogameboutique It happened during a game in the middle of his conference’s tournament. It was literally the lead story on SportsCenter that night (that’s actually Berman anchoring in the clip; getting him on SC after football season was already a rarity by then). Not airing the footage was so not even considered at the time.

@@trevorhembrough1290 omg, youtube are full of morons! THAT WAS BACK THEN!!! I'M REFERRING TO TODAY WHEN ESPN AIRED THE STORY AGAIN!!! You would think that you would have had A CLUE, after reading my response to the other moron but i guess not.... How about you read what i typed again but this time, read it VERY SLOWLY... "And your excuse that they showed it repeatedly at the time is equally pitiful. You do know that as a people, we should want to grow and do things better in society as time progresses, right? By your logic, Hank gathers, a black man, should not have been a free man and still a slave, along with some 40 million black people in America, because as you put it, " It was shown repeatedly when it actually happened" Yeah, at the time black people were enslaved and had no rights, it was widely accepted! And even when black people were free, "JIM CROW" laws were the law of the land! So there goes your false and flawed logic...." I hope your poor comprehension skills will kick up a notch just enough to understand, what you're reading this time around.

RIDICULOUS

I'm here after people blaming the rona vaccine.