Wayman Tisdale News

Wayman Lawrence Tisdale (June 9, 1964 – May 15, 2009) was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association and a smooth jazz bass guitarist. A three-time All American at the University of Oklahoma,

Tisdale was born in Fort Worth, Texas.

Growing up, Tisdale was not interested in basketball; when Weldon and another older brother, William, played pickup games in their yard, he usually quit before they finished, retreating to the family’s sandbox. However, Tisdale began taking to the sport in the eighth grade when he first learned to dunk.

He met his future wife Regina in April 1981 at church. At the time, they were juniors at different Tulsa high schools, and she did not know he was one of the most heavily-recruited basketball players in the country.

Tisdale called music his “first love”. He learned to play music by watching Elvis Presley; he never took any lessons, never knew what key any of the pieces he played is written in, or even the names of the notes.
Source: Wikipedia

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Wayman Tisdale Blog Results

Wayman Tisdale, Dead at 44 — NBA FanHouse
Wayman Tisdale has spent the past several years fighting bone cancer. He broke his leg twice within one year after a 20-year college and pro. Read more

Wayman Tisdale: Jazz and Basketball | Guideposts
Cancer could not claim the spirit of jazz musician and NBA star Wayman Tisdale. Read more
Wayman Tisdale, basketball star and musician, dies – CNN.com
Wayman Tisdale was college and pro basketball star, later jazz bassist; Tisdale had two-year battle with cancer; he was 44 when he died Friday; Death called “a complete shock”; Tisdale was about to record with Norman Brown …Read more
NBA (and Music) Great Wayman Tisdale: 1964-2009
Former NBA star Wayman Tisdale, who also found success as an award-winning jazz-bass player, died in Tulsa, Okla., today at the age of 44 after a two-year. Read more

Oklahoma Rock Newsblog » Blog Archive » Wayman Tisdale Chosen for …
This entry was posted on Friday, June 5th, 2009 at 4:56 pm and is filed under awards, Wayman Tisdale. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. … Read more

Wayman Tisdale (1964 – 2009) – Find A Grave Memorial
Born Wayman Lawrence Tisdale in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he attended Booker T. Washington High School. He was a three-time All-American during his collegiate years at the University of Oklahoma, and was a member of the 1984 USA Men’s Olympic … Read more