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Horrible news.
Fulfill your biggest dream and find out your mom dies on the same day? Life can sure be odd.
My condolences to him and his family. I'm very happy he made the team, his a really good Basketball player and person.
Horrible news.
Fulfill your biggest dream and find out your mom dies on the same day? Life can sure be odd.
Sad news
My condolences to him and his family.
Although I for one am not sold on Tolliver being a NBA talent . I can not even imagine what he may be going threw right now. My best wishes and condolences go out to him and his family.
Strange to say this, but God bless and congrats to Anthony
Condolences to him and his family.
Hopefully, this experience, albeit painful, will inspire him to continue to improve.
i hope he gets better. its bad to lose a mother. hopefully own it up and be a surprise rookie of the year.
Very sad news. Hopefully, some of his new teammates including Timmy may be able to provide some support for Anthony. Tim has some personal experience with loss in his life.
I still think about Joe Dumars playing in the NBA Finals against Portland and following Game 3, he found out his dad had passed away. Joe still had his mom and she encouraged him to finish the series, which he did in 5 games, but I've always thought that would be a very difficult thing to do and deal with.
Best Wishes to Tolliver.
What a shame his mother didn't get to see him play his first NBA game with the Spurs though. That would have been something special.
How did you even find this article though? Can't say I've ever read the Omaha newspaper before.
It's been a tough month for the Spurs. Coach Don Newman loses his wife a couple of weeks ago and now Anthony's mother passes away.
Tolliver facing triumph, tragedy
News-Leader staff •
For former Kickapoo High School and Creighton University basketball star Anthony Tolliver, the last week represented the best and the worst of times.
Tolliver found out Thursday that he had made the opening-day roster of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs.
Later that day, Tolliver learned that his mother, Donna Lewis of Springfield, had died of an apparent heart attack.
"Anthony's devastated," Anthony Fox, Tolliver's agent, told the Omaha World-Herald. "I've talked with him but what can you say?
"There are no magical words that you can say that can make this make sense."
Fox said the Spurs have granted Tolliver a leave of absence. The regular season opens later this week.
"I know Anthony was very, very close to his mom," Creighton athletic director Bruce Rasmussen said. "I always sensed that Anthony's mom was his best friend and he was his mom's best friend.
"She was very supportive and had a very strong influence on him. That influence will help Tolliver get through this tragedy."
Tolliver signed with the Spurs as a free agent last summer. He was an all-Missouri Valley Conference player in 2007 and made the Cleveland Cavaliers opening-day roster last season, but was released before tipoff opening night.
He played in the NBA Developmental League with Des Moines and a pro league in Germany last season.
Lewis, 56, worked for 32 years in the Springfield Public Schools system. Survivors include Tolliver's sisters, Leslie Lewis and Ra'Vonda Lewis (Sanon).
Services are 6 p.m. Thursday at the Gillioz Theatre preceded by visitation at 5 p.m. Burial will be Friday in Rivermont Cemetery.
And McDonald got nothing on this so far
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