No one recalls Richard Batum ever being sick. A rugged power forward in the second division of France’s pro basketball leagues — the tough guy always ready for a fight — he got fouled that night in 1991, with his wife and son watching from the stands. He went to the foul line for free throws. Then, with no warning he was ill, he collapsed to the floor. “Gone! Like that,’ Nicolas Batum recalled with a finger-snap, of his father’s sudden death at 30 of still undetermined cause.
No one recalls Richard Batum ever being …
