By OSWALD T. BROWN
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 19, 2022 – The Hon. Lynden Rose, Bahamas Honorary Consul General in Houston, Texas, was one of the guests interviewed on Thursday, May 19, on IMMEDIATE RESPONSE, the popular ZNS-TV show hosted by Spence Finlayson.
Finlayson and a ZNS broadcast team are in Houston for live to broadcasts from SpringHill Suites by Marriott on Thursday (today) and Friday from 9 am to 11am, featuring Bahamians in the Houston area diaspora.
Rose, who is now a prominent attorney in the Houston area, was an outstanding basketball player at the University of Houston in the early 1980s.
He was a member of the University of Houston Board of Regents from 2004 to 2009.
Born in Nassau on November 14, 1960, e attended Miami Jackson High School and Miami Springs High School in the Miami, Florida
According to Wikipedia, “After transferring from North Harris County College, Rose played as a point guard for the University of Houston Cougars from 1980 to 1982, starting both years and wearing the number 00.
“As a senior, Rose co-captained the 1981–82 team, the first of three squads that would later bear the moniker of ‘Phi Slama Jama.’ Rose and the rest of ‘Texas’ Tallest Fraternity’ reached the Final Four of the 1982 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament. In the national semifinals, Houston lost to the eventual champions, the University of North Carolina Tar Heels.”
Wikipedia adds: “In the final game of his collegiate career, Rose led all Cougars with 20 points; in doing so, he also outscored a young Michael Jordan, who scored 18 points.
“The Los Angeles Lakers drafted Rose in the sixth round of the 1982 NBA draft with the 136th overall pick, though Rose never played a minute for the team and was cut during the preseason. The following year, the Houston Rockets signed and released Rose during the preseason.”
Continuing, Wikipdia adds:“Rose played his first professional season in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). He split the 1982–83 season between the Las Vegas Silvers and Billings Volcanos, averaging 9.6 points over 30 games.”
Rose’s wife, Marilyn A. Rose, is the Vice Chair of the Texas Southern University Board of Regents, and they have three children: Lynden Jr. (nicknamed “L.J.”), Lynnard, and Madelyn.
Rose’s older brother, Cecil, who died on December 27, 2013, was also an outstanding basketball player, who played for the Houston Cougars from 1974 to 1978. Cecil Rose was one of the five outstanding Bahamian basketball players who became legends of Florida high school basketball. Cecil Rose, Charles Thompson, Osborne Lockhart and Mychal Thompson, who went on to become a superstar professionally in the NBA, were teammates at Florida’s Miami Jackson High in the early 1970s.
Lyden Rose has been Bahamas Consul General to Houston since March of 2015.
