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Lusia Harris — a women’s basketball pioneer who scored the 1st points in the Olympics and was picked in the NBA draft — dies at age 66

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Lusia Harris shows off some of her medals and awards from her basketball career on Jan. 10, 2002, at her home in Greenwood, Miss. Harris, who was the only woman to be drafted by an NBA team and scored the first points in women’s basketball history at the Olympics, died Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2021, her family announced. She was 66. (TONY KRAUSZ/AP)

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