| LC control no. | n 81093596 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dawkins, Darryl |
| Variant(s) | Chocolate Thunder (Basketball player) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1957-01-11 |
| Death date | 2015-08-27 |
| Place of birth | Orlando (Fla.) |
| Place of death | Allentown (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Dunking (Basketball) Basketball--Coaching |
| Affiliation | Lehigh Carbon Community College Continental Basketball Association Detroit Pistons (Basketball team) Utah Jazz (Basketball team) New Jersey Nets (Basketball team) Philadelphia 76ers (Basketball team) |
| Profession or occupation | Basketball players Basketball coaches |
| Found in | Rosenthal, B. Darryl Dawkins, the master of disaster, 1982 (subj.) t.p. (Darryl Dawkins) CIP galley (Philadelphia 76ers basketball player; 4 yrs. old in 1961) His Chocolate Thunder, 1986: CIP t.p. (Darryl Dawkins) Phone call to pub., 7/19/86 (Darryl Dawkins; b. 1/11/57) African American National Biography, accessed April 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Dawkins, Darryl; basketball player; born 11 January 1957 in Orlando, Florida, United States; attended Maynard Evans High School and led the basketball team to the state championship (1975); played for the Philadelphia 76ers (1977-1982); was traded to New Jersey (1982-1984); his last year in the NBA (1989) played with Globetrotters and in Continental Basketball Association; became head basketball coach at Lehigh Carbon Community College, Pennsylvania (2009); published his autobiography “Chocolate Thunder: The Uncensored Life and Times of Darryl Dawkins” (2003)) New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 28, 2015 (in obituary published Aug. 27: Darryl Dawkins; b. Jan. 11, 1957, Orlando, Fla.; d. Thursday [Aug. 27, 2015], Allentown, Pa., aged 58; arrived in professional basketball as a gigantic teenager and became one of the game's fiercest dunkers and most notoriously lovable characters; known to fans as Chocolate Thunder from Planet Lovetron) |
| Associated language | eng |
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