‘He may actually play’: The sports activities world paid tribute to Invoice Reynolds

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The legendary Reynolds made an enduring impression each on and off the courtroom.

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The sports activities world paid tribute to the late Invoice Reynolds. Glenn Osmundson/The Windfall Journal

The New England sports activities world suffered a significant loss on Thursday when longtime columnist, creator, and former Brown College basketball star Invoice Reynolds handed away on the age of 78.

Reynolds, who spent many years at The Windfall Journal crafting his memorable weekly column, “For What It’s Value,” left a profound legacy.

Testomony to this have been the quite a few tributes that poured in after the information of his passage was reported.

Included within the record was former Fall River basketball star Chris Herren, who Reynolds had chronicled in a number of books.

“I’ll be endlessly grateful for that afternoon 1992 you walked into my life,” Herren wrote in a heartfelt message on Fb. “I’ll cherish each second we shared. I’ll carry your unconditional love in coronary heart endlessly. Billy Reynolds is certainly one of best males I’ll ever know.”

Celtics play-by-play commentator Mike Gorman shared some ideas on Reynolds on Twitter, noting that they first met 50 years earlier than when the 2 have been first breaking into media roles.

As Gorman explained, Reynolds’s column grew to become “the very first thing you checked out after waking up on a Saturday morning.”

This, plus his present for creating an impression by way of writing, impressed his friends.

Alongside together with his prolific profession in journalism, Reynolds had additionally been one of many highest scoring gamers within the historical past of Brown College basketball (909 factors). He co-captained the 1967-1968 group, and ranked seventh on the varsity’s profession factors record when he graduated.

“He was the person all of us envied,” longtime Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan stated, “as a result of, not like the remainder of us, he may actually play.”

Extending past the native space, Reynolds’s legacy stretches far.

ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski referenced it in his personal tribute, noting that Reynolds was “So good to so many people who needed to learn to make it within the enterprise. RIP, Billy.”