678: Lance Allred - First Deaf Player in NBA Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2016
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Lance Allred's Mormon story is fascinating for so many reasons.
- He is the grandson of assassinated Mormon fundamentalist prophet Rulon Allred.
- He was born deaf, and stands 6'11" tall.
- He was a star basketball player for East High school (SLC, Utah), and played college basketball both at the University of Utah and Weber State University.
- Lance developed scrupulosity (religious OCD), at least partially as a result of both perfectionism, and guilt/shame relating to matters of sexuality.
- NCAA legend Rick Marjerus was fired as University of Utah basketball coach because of his verbal abuse of Lance.
- After college, Lance went on to play 10 years of professional basketball (mostly overseas), including playing a year for the Cleveland Cavaliers with Lebron James (pre-Miami), amongst other teams (he even met Larry Bird!).
- Lance become a popular public speaker, perhaps most recently known for his "What is Your Polygamy" TEDx talk.
- Lance has fascinating insights on faith, doubt, and disbelief.
Lance's web site can be found here: http://www.lanceallred41.com
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to another edition of Warmestory's podcast. I'm your host John DeLin. |
| 0:36.3 | It is November 15th, 2016. We're here in Murray, Utah, Browse, South of Salt Lake City. |
| 0:45.1 | And I'm super interested to have today's interview. Today we are interviewing Lance Allred. |
| 0:53.5 | Lance, welcome to Warmestory's. Thanks for having me, John. I've been looking forward |
| 0:56.5 | to this for a long time. |
| 0:58.5 | All right. So Lance is cool for a number of reasons. Lance has published a book. It's called Long Shot. |
| 1:08.5 | Lance Allred, the adventures of a deaf fundamentalist Mormon kid in his journey to the NBA. |
| 1:16.1 | And that really does summarize a lot of reasons why Lance is cool. |
| 1:21.8 | For those of you who follow Warmestory's, you'll know that we interviewed Lance's father, |
| 1:27.7 | Lance Allred, just in our last episode. We did a good three or four hours, I think, with Lance. |
| 1:36.2 | Lance was super cool because his father, Lance's grandfather, was Rulon Allred, who started |
| 1:45.1 | the Allred group, the fundamentalist Mormon Pligamy group, also known as the Apostolic United Brother. |
| 1:52.1 | But we just did a fantastic several hours on what it was like to grow up as the son of Rulon Allred. |
| 1:59.0 | Rulon got assassinated, what happened to the Allred group with some sort of sexual abuse scandals, |
| 2:07.4 | what led to Lance leaving his fundamentalist group and joining the mainstream Mormon Church. |
| 2:13.8 | And then we'll let him out. If you haven't listened to our interview with Lance, |
| 2:19.9 | you really should go back and listen to it first because it provides a lot of fascinating context |
| 2:25.5 | for my interview with Lance. Now Lance, in addition to if you were ever a University of Utah basketball fan, |
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