Education
Atherton High School.
Atherton High School.
He is still the school"s leading all-time rebounder and ranks 11th on the National Collegiate Athletic Association career rebounds list with 1,617. He was the first and one of four to have their basketball jersey number retired by UofL. He later played five seasons in the National Basketball Association, mainly with the New York Knicks. Tyra died, aged 71, at the Franciscan Health Care Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
He had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure more than two years earlier.