Keith Kensel Owens is an American former professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association. The forward played one season with the Lakers in the 1992?92 season. He played college basketball for four seasons for the UCLA Bruins from 1987 through 1991. Owens was born in San Francisco, California. He was 6 feet 5 inches and played center in high school at Birmingham High in Van Nuys, California. Owens was more concerned with his education than being able to play basketball. He rejected athletic scholarship offers from Cal Poly Pomona and Hawaii. He attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles instead, where he made the basketball team in his first year in 1987 as a 6-foot-8-inch walk-on under coach Walt Hazzard. However, Owens played so infrequently that year that he calculated his points and rebounds by the minute rather than by the game. By his sophomore year under new coach Jim Harrick, Owens earned a scholarship. He became an integral part of the team in his final two seasons. In his senior year, he was co-captain of the team and averaged 6.3 points and 5.3 rebounds a game and blocked 61 shots. 

May 31st, 1969 in San Francisco (Age 55)