Clyde the Glide’ Austin’s grandson signs with Oakland school
9/2/2021, 6 p.m.
Alii Bledsoe, the 6-foot-5 grandson of Clyde Austin, has accepted a basketball scholarship to Lincoln University of Oakland, Calif.
Bledsoe, who played as a junior and senior at St. Joseph Notre Dame High in Alameda, Calif., will be playing at Lincoln for Coach Gary Payton, the former NBA star. A private institution, Lincoln is just starting its intercollegiate program this year.
Austin, aka “Clyde the Glide,” starred at Maggie L. Walker High School in Richmond and at North Carolina State University from 1976 to 1980 before enjoying a long career with the Harlem Globetrotters from 1980 to 1988.
