Mac McDonald was hired as the play-by-play man for the Cavaliers before the 1980-81 season. The young broadcaster from the Midwest was immediately impressed by the senior guard and team captain.
“It was my first college job coming from Iowa, and I was just in awe of him,” McDonald said of Lamp. “He had a great personality. And nobody wanted the ball in the final minute more than Jeff.”Ironically enough, posting today started with Ronald Reagan and is closing with Jeff Lamp and...Jeff Lamp's last game with UVa came on the day Reagan was shot.
Freaking out? Mind blown? I'll stand by respectfully waiting for you to collect your composure.
Side note: as for Lamp/Raker/Gates, has there ever been another instance of THREE high school teammates going on to take a team to the NCAA Final Four? Three WHITE guys?!??!!? And how ironic that all three plus Jeff Jones all came from Kentucky, where Ralph Sampson (who has been oddly under-rated), the ONE recruit Terry Holland actually got, almost went to? (To say nothing of the fact that Ralph's the reason Obama won!)
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