Bird, Barkley, and 1977 Final Four: Cedric Maxwell remembers it all!

and he was a great man. He had actually been a college professor of history at North Carolina Central. He had passed away before I found out about him, unfortunately.Q: What was your reaction to learning about him?A: I just felt like I had a piece of the puzzle that I hadn’t had before. It was like a sudden feeling of understanding why I was the way I was. I had a different father, but the man who raised me, Manny Maxwell, was a very good man. He was my dad.