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Lonnie Ollivierre as born on St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a small island country in the Caribbean, where he lived with his father and two sisters....
HomeLesley Younge, Lonnie Ollivierre Picture Book.STOKES by Ty Chapman and John Coy and Illustrated by Lonnie Ollivierre Squares Up to the Story of the NBA’s First Black Superstar
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — There’s nothing but net in Stokes: The Brief Career of the NBA’s First Black Superstar, a new picture book biography from Millbrook Press™, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™.
Written by Ty Chapman and John Coy and illustrated by Lonnie Ollivierre, Stokes tells the story of the NBA’s first Black superstar, Maurice Stokes, who broke the mold for NBA players in the 1950s.
Maurice Stokes didn’t just play a supporting role in the NBA, he dominated on both offense and defense.
No one had ever seen a player his size (6’7") handle the ball so deftly. In a 1958 game against the Minneapolis Lakers, Stokes went down hard and hit his head.
Written by Ty Chapman and John Coy and illustrated by Lonnie Ollivierre, Stokes tells the story of the NBA's first Black superstar, Maurice Stokes, who broke.
At the time there was no concussion protocol and he continued to play. A few days later he went into a coma, waking up without the use of his body from the neck down. His teammates, par