John Harding Lucas II

He played in the NBA for fourteen years and was a member of the 1986 Houston Rockets team that made the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Boston Celtics. However, that off-season his career took a turn for the worse when longstanding drug problems became known. Several Rockets teammates, Mitchell Wiggins and Lewis Lloyd were banished from the NBA due to positive cocaine tests. Lucas, also a cocaine user and alcoholic, submitted voluntarily to treatment and thus was not banished; however the addiction effectively ended his playing career. Trivia Picked No. 1 overall in the 1976 NBA Draft by the Houston Rockets. Statistics References Related Articles

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