Ex-NC State star killed

Published 1:59 am Tuesday, June 28, 2011

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina State basketball star Lorenzo Charles, the muscular forward whose last-second dunk gave the underdog Wolfpack the 1983 national collegiate championship, was killed Monday when a bus he was driving crashed, a company official said Monday.

Elite Coach general manager Brad Jackson said Charles, 47, worked for the company and was driving one of its buses on Interstate 40.

Charles grabbed Dereck Whittenburg’s 30-foot shot and dunked it at the buzzer to give N.C. State a 54-52 win and its second national title.

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