679: Lance Allred - First Deaf Player in NBA Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 129 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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0:00.0	The
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0:26.6	MormonStories.org.
0:27.6	Hello and welcome back to Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:33.6	I'm your host, John Dillin.
0:35.7	We are now beginning part two of our interview with Lance Allred.
0:40.6	Hey Lance, thanks for joining us.
0:42.3	Good to be back.
0:44.5	Lance is the author of this book called Longshot.
0:48.3	Lance Allred, the adventures of a deaf, fundamentalist Mormon kid, and his journey to the NBA.
0:54.7	And we're basically asking how does a kid born into the AUB of Allred, fundamentalist,
1:02.7	politicalist group whose deaf end up not only staying alive and thriving in life, but
1:11.0	becoming an NBA athlete and also a motivational speaker and a published author.
1:18.9	And we just finished recording the first episode where Lance talked about growing up as a fundamentalist
1:24.6	and his experiences with his, you know, what he knew about his grandfather, his experiences
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