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Al Lucas (basketball)

professional basketball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ2658449 ↗
Source-derived summary

Albert Thomas Lucas (July 4, 1922 – April 26, 1995) was a professional basketball player who spent four seasons with the Sheboygan Redskins in the National Basketball League and one season in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as a member of the Boston Celtics during the 1948–49 season. He attended Fordham University.

Editorial summary

“Al Lucas (basketball)” enters the record as professional basketball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lucas, basketball and professional can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1922, 1995, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1922-07-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lucas, basketball and professional.
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Why this record matters

“Al Lucas (basketball)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lucas, basketball and professional provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2658449. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1922, 1995 and 1948.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Al Lucas (basketball)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.