Elk Grove High School’s boys basketball team are state champions. Someday, they’ll truly understand what this means. Bill Cartwright’s sure of it. His Elk Grove Thundering Herd teams were ...

Elk Grove High School’s boys basketball team are state champions. Someday, they’ll truly understand what this means. Bill Cartwright’s sure of it. His Elk Grove Thundering Herd teams were ...

Cartwright may be best known as the “man in the middle” for the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls of the 1990s, but the 7-1 center was born in Lodi and attended Elk Grove High School, where he ...

66 - Bill Cartwright, Elk Grove, 1975. He of the feathery short jumper and inside post moves, Big Bill — all 7 feet of him — crushed Sacramento High.

As a 7-foot-1 center, Bill Cartwright was a literal NBA giant. The Elk Grove native won five championships with the Chicago ...

Cartwright grew up in Elk Grove playing all sports even though he was already seven feet tall by his freshman year of high school “played a little football, baseball was my sport. I was a pitcher.

Grew up with some bona fide legends. After memorable runs at Elk Grove High School and the University of San Francisco, Bill was selected third overall by the New York Knicks in the 1979 NBA Draft.

During Bill Cartwright’s senior year at Elk Grove (Calif.) High School, a legend visited. “Bill Russell stopped by and the first question he asked me is, ‘When are you going to be on TV?’ ...

Elk Grove High School’s boys basketball team are state champions. Someday, they’ll truly understand what this means. Bill Cartwright’s sure of it. His Elk Grove Thundering Herd teams were ...

After memorable runs at Elk Grove High School and the University of San Francisco, Bill was selected third overall by the New York Knicks in the 1979 NBA Draft.

Elk Grove, NBA great Bill Cartwright cheers on champs: Title ‘will carry these kids forever’ By Darrell Smith. Updated March 22, 2022 10:34 AM.