HOUSTON (AP) -One of the men who moved the Houston Rockets from San Diego has died.
The family says Wayne Duddlesten died Thursday at his home after a five-year battle with cancer. He was 80.
His son, Wayne Duddlesten Jr., says some of the former San Diego Rockets players who came to Houston with the team visited his father just before he died. Among the visitors were former Rockets stars Mike Newlin and Elvin Hayes.
The son said Duddlesten was alert until hours before his death. The son says there “was something about that visit that told Dad that he thought he could go now.”
The elder Duddlesten, a real estate broker and manager, joined Houston banker Billy Goldberg in buying the Rockets from Robert Breitbard in 1971 and moved them to Houston.
Duddlesten’s death was first reported by KRIV-TV in Houston.
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