Lance Blanks

Lance Blanks (9 ga Satumba, 1966 - 3 ga Mayu, 2023) ya kasance ɗan wasan ƙwallon Kwando na ƙwallon ƙafa na Amurka kuma mai zartarwa wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin mai sharhi ga ESPN . Ya taka leda a kungiyar kwallon kwando ta kasa (NBA) don Detroit Pistons da Minnesota Timberwolves . Blanks ya kuma shafe lokutan wasa da yawa a Turai. Blanks ya yi aiki a matsayin janar manajan Phoenix Suns daga 2010 zuwa 2013.

 NoRayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Blanks a ranar 9 ga Satumba, 1966, a Del Rio, Texas,   ga Sid Blanks, ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa wanda ya taka leda a Kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Amurka da Kungiyar Kwando ta Kasa. Lance Blanks ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta McCullough a The Woodlands, Texas, kuma an kira shi Texas Mr. Basketball da kuma na uku-team Parade All-American a shekarar 1985.

 Ayyukan kwaleji 
Blanks ya taka leda a Jami'ar Virginia da Jami'ar Texas a Austin. Blanks da Texas Longhorns abokan aiki Travis Mays da Joey Wright an san su da "BMW Scoring Machine" a lokacin kakar 1989-90.  Wannan tawagar ta kammala ta uku a Taron Kudu maso Yamma kuma ta ci gaba zuwa Elite Eight a Gasar NCAA ta 1990. Blanks ya jawo zargi mai karfi kuma ya sami masu sukar da yawa saboda abubuwan da ya yi a filin wasa da kuma bikin da ba na wasanni ba, kamar a Elite Eight na gasar 1990. 

Tare da maki 1,322 , Blanks tana riƙe da rikodin mafi yawan maki daga dan wasan shekaru biyu kuma shine mai zira kwallaye na takwas a tarihin Jami'ar Texas. Blanks ya ƙare aikinsa a Texas a matsayin jagora na kowane lokaci a cikin sata kuma ya kasance na huɗu a cikin matsakaicin ƙwallon ƙafa tare da maki 20.0 a kowane wasa

An shigar da Blanks cikin Hall of Honor na Texas Athletics a shekara ta 2007. 

 Ayyukan wasa 
Wani mai tsaro gida, Detroit Pistons ne suka zaba Blanks a zagaye na farko na shirin NBA na 1990 tare da zabin 26 gaba ɗaya. Ya yi aiki mara kyau a matsayin dan wasa,  ya buga wasanni 142 a cikin lokutan NBA guda uku tare da Pistons da Minnesota Timberwolves . Bayan haka, ya buga wasa daya a cikin Kungiyar Kwando ta Continental da kuma wasu yanayi uku a Turai,    inda ya jagoranci kungiyoyi a Hungary da Cyprus zuwa lakabi na league.

 Ayyukan bayan wasa 
Blanks ya shiga San Antonio Spurs a shekara ta 2000 a matsayin ɗan leƙen asiri kuma an ɗaukaka shi zuwa darektan leƙen asirin a watan Satumbar shekara ta 2002.  Ya yi aiki a matsayin mai sharhi na talabijin na Spurs a lokacin kakar 2004-05. 

Blanks ya yi aiki na tsawon shekaru biyar a matsayin mataimakin janar manajan Cleveland Cavaliers daga 2005 zuwa 2010.  Daga 2010 zuwa 2013, Blanks ya yi aiki a matsayin janar manajan Phoenix Suns . 

Daga 2020 har zuwa mutuwarsa a 2023, Blanks ya yi aiki a matsayin mai sharhi na talabijin na Texas Longhorns a kan Longhorn Network . 

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
'Yar Blanks, Riley, ta kasance mai tara taurari huɗu a kungiyar wasan tennis ta Jami'ar Virginia.  Dan uwansa Larvell Blanks ya kasance dan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa a cikin Major League Baseball . 

A cikin 2019, Blanks ta dauki bakuncin wani taro kan raunin da ya faru, ciwon ƙwaƙwalwa mai tsanani (CTE), a Cibiyar Sadarwar Wasanni da Media ta Jami'ar Texas. Mahaifinsa yana da Cutar Parkinson bayan ya buga wasan ƙwallon ƙafa na shekaru. Wadanda suka halarci taron sun tattauna tasirin kwallon kafa a kwakwalwar mutum da kuma muhimmancin alama na wasanni a rayuwar Amurka. Blanks ya kuma yi aiki tare da Kwando Ba tare da iyakoki ba.

Blanks ya mutu a Dallas, Texas, a ranar 3 ga Mayu, 2023, yana da shekaru 56.  Dalilin shi ne kashe kansa.

 Kididdigar aiki 

 NBA 

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| align="left" | 
| align="left" | Detroit
| 38 || 0 || 5.6 || .426 || .125 || .714 || .5 || .7 || .2 || .1 || 1.7
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| align="left" | 
| align="left" | Detroit
| 43 || 0 || 4.4 || .455 || .375 || .727 || .5 || .4 || .3 || .0 || 1.5
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| align="left" | 
| align="left" | Minnesota
| 61 || 2 || 10.5 || .433 || .256 || .625 || 1.1 || 1.2 || .3 || .1 || 2.6
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 142 || 2 || 7.6 || .436 || .253 || .667 || .8 || .8 || .3 || .1 || 2.0
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 Lokaci na yau da kullun 

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| align="left" | 1992
| align="left" | Detroit
| 1 || 0 || 10.0 || .500 || – || – || 1.0 || 3.0 || 3.0 || .0 || 2.0

Rukuni:Mutuwan 2023
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1966
Rukuni:Shafuka masu fassarorin da ba'a duba ba
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