Spencer Haywood's Redemption: From Addiction To Advocacy

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Webspencer haywood (born april 22, 1949) is an american former professional basketball player and olympic gold medalist.

Webmissing from that list was spencer haywood, the trailblazing forward who grew up picking cotton in mississippi and wound up reshaping the league in a way that.

Haywood is a member of the naismith memorial.

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Webluckily, haywood's battle with addiction and mental health issues has a happy ending.

Webhaywood is a prostate cancer survivor and kicked his addiction to cocaine (a drug he refers to as “nasty, filthy, demonic”) in 1982.

During a recent interview with local 4, he says the best decision he ever.

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