Reggie Lewis: The Celtics’ Main Man, 1993

[Just a quick remembrance of Reggie Lewis, the rising Celtic star who left us way too soon from a fatal heart ailment while shooting baskets. The tragic moment happened in July 1993. Lewis was just 27 years young. Here, Lewis still is very much on the NBA rise, and the great Fran Blinebury tells us how. Blinebury’s story appeared in the 1993 Street & Smith’s Pro Basketball Annual. If you want to read more about Lewis, find Craig Windham’s Quiet Grace, published in 1995.] **** Reggie Lewis was not one of those NBA first-round draft choices who comes wrapped in a bow and wearing the label of a can’t-miss future superstar. His development was more of a slow, natural process, like a tadpole who learned to swim, steadily grew, and now owns the pond. Everybody always figured there would come a next big gun in line to follow in the footsteps of the legendary Larry Bird. But very few of even the sharpest scouts predicted that it would be the unassuming kid who played his college ball just a…