Obit watch: March 24, 2021.

George Segal. THR. Variety. I feel bad about not saying more, but he was an icon, and it seems like everyone is paying deserved tribute to him.

Houston Tumlin. If you saw “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”, he was Ricky Bobby’s son. That was his only acting role. He was 28 years old.

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By way of Lawrence, Elgin Baylor.

Baylor was voted to the all-N.B.A. team for the league’s first 50 years. He was a 10-time N.B.A. first-team All-Star selection and averaged more than 30 points a game for three consecutive seasons in the early 1960s.
He set a league record by scoring 64 points against the Boston Celtics in November 1959, then scored 71 against the Knicks in November 1960, only to see Chamberlain score 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the Knicks in March 1962.
Baylor joined with West and later with Chamberlain to turn the Lakers into a glamour team. He played in eight N.B.A. final series, but the Lakers lost seven times to the Celtics in the Bill Russell era and then to the Knicks in a memorable Game 7 at Madison Square Garden in 1970.

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