Connie Hawkins, American basketball player (died 2017)

Connie Hawkins

American basketball player (1942–2017)

Cornelius Lance "Connie" Hawkins was an American professional basketball player. A New York City playground legend, "the Hawk" was to play basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes but was unjustly implicated in a point-shaving scandal that saw him kicked out of school as a freshman and…