National Champion Kentucky Wesleyan College; and another son, LeRon, played at the University of Kentucky and Syracuse University before playing two and a half seasons in the NBA. LeRoy Ellis' youngest son, Lee Christopher Ellis, was shot to death on a Los Angeles street in 1998 at age 19. Ellis died of prostate cancer on June 2, 2012, at the age of 72. References External links Career stats 1940 births 2012 deaths African-American basketball players Baltimore Bullets (1963–1973) players Basketball players from New York City Deaths from cancer in Oregon Centers (basketball) Deaths from prostate cancer Los Angeles Lakers draft picks Los Angeles Lakers players People from Far Rockaway, Queens Philadelphia 76ers players Portland Trail Blazers expansion draft picks Portland Trail Blazers players Sportspeople from Queens, New York St. John's Red Storm men's basketball players People from Columbia County, Oregon Thomas Jefferson High School (Brooklyn) alumni American men's basketball players 20th-century African-American sportspeople 21st-century African-American people