Twyman’s finest contributions came off the court: after teammate Maurice Stokes was felled by a career-ending illness, Twyman’s family took Stokes in, cared for him, raised money to pay his bills and was eventually immortalized in the 1973 movie Maurie, as well as a phenomenal Twyman/Stokes video exhibit in Springfield that I watched during every visit as a kid.7 Throwing in the racial wrinkle (Twyman was white, Stokes was black) and social climate at the time, this has to rank among the better feel-good sports stories. So how does everyone remember Brian’s Song and nobody remembers Maurie?
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