Webspencer haywood (born april 22, 1949) is an american former professional basketball player and olympic gold medalist. Haywood is a member of the naismith memorial. Webluckily, haywood's battle with addiction and mental health issues has a happy ending. Webhaywood is a prostate cancer survivor and kicked his addiction to cocaine (a drug he refers to as “nasty, filthy, demonic”) in 1982. Webzooming in on the depiction of spencer haywood in hbo’s “winning time” and zooming out to the u. s. Government’s war on drugs, we deconstruct the rhetoric —. The rise, the fall, the recovery. Webin this excerpt from the third episode of the ringer’s new narrative podcast series, nba hall of famer spencer haywood recalls freebasing cocaine for the first time.
