LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Trading basketball for his bass full time after 12 years -- including stints with the Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings -- five-time NBA All-Star Wayman Tisdale became a ...

Wayman Tisdale in the paint at Roberts’ Orpheum Aug. 12 After winning a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics and consistently being an All Star throughout his twelve-year career in the National Basketball ...

Wayman Tisdale, a three-time All-American at Oklahoma who played 12 seasons in the NBA and later became a top jazz musician, died after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 44. Tisdale died Friday ...

Music producer Derek Allen was Lionel Richie's bass player for seven years and is based in Sacramento, Calif. When Wayman Tisdale played for the NBA's Sacramento Kings in 1989-94, he and Allen became ...

BILL HAISTEN World Sports Writer May 22, 2009 May 22, 2009 0 During a service that lasted more than 3 1/2 hours, Wayman Tisdale was hailed Thursday as having been a world-class athlete and jazz ...

The eulogy will be delivered by another Tisdale brother — the Rev. Weldon Tisdale, pastor of the Friendship Church. There will be fantastic music and moving testimony. There will be countless ...