PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Former Portland Trail Blazers General Manager Stu Inman has died at 80 after a massive heart attack.
He died Tuesday, the team said Wednesday.
Inman was the architect of Portland's only NBA championship team in the 1976-77 season, which included ABC/ESPN analyst Bill Walton. He was interim coach when Rolland Todd was fired in the 1971-72 season, and the franchise's chief scout when it was formed in 1970.
His wife, Eleanor, told the Oregonian her husband collapsed in their Lake Oswego, Ore., home and was taken to Legacy Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin, where he was pronounced dead.
"He didn't suffer," she told the newspaper.
Inman is one of the leading career scorers and rebounders in the history of San Jose State University.
At Portland, he drafted future stars Clyde Drexler, Jerome Kersey and Terry Porter.
