Frank Burgess
[2] A man with a good sense of humor, he once described his hometown as being so small that "the only fast food we had in that town was if you hit a deer going 70 (miles per hour).[4] Burgess still played basketball even in Germany and was so good that he was picked to be one of the 10 best Air Force players in the world.[4] It was during this time that Burgess met Mel Porter, a fellow American Air Force officer and Gonzaga University alumnus.[4] Although Burgess had also started to receive serious interest from Kansas and USC, he ultimately chose to attend Gonzaga because he felt that that school would get him the most prepared for life after basketball.Burgess graduated with a degree in education in the spring of 1961 and was then drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association.