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FLINT, Mich. — Countless alumni and athletes returned to Michigan State University for the first weekend in October to celebrate homecoming.
Spartans basketball players Benny White and Bill Kilgore were among the old-timers on campus, along with ex-assistant coach Vernon Payne, who celebrated the festivities but also decided to make a pit stop to former head coach Gus Ganakas’ house as he’s up in age at 92 years old.
With the gang intact, the legendary tales began to flow. They even FaceTimed Lindsay Hairston, another MSU basketball great, who is all the way in France.
“We laughed, we cried and again talked about Terry (Furlow) and some of the stories,” White explained. “Terry made everybody laugh, he checked everybody and probably fought everybody except me because he told me I was too little so he didn’t ever mess with me.”
Unfortunately, Terry Furlow wasn’t in attendance to reminisce.
The former Utah Jazz player’s body is resting more than 50 miles away from East Lansing, Michigan, in his hometown of Flint.
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