Louis Orr, 64, Dies; Syracuse Star, Knicks Forward and a Coach

Louis Orr in 2010, when he was head coach at Bowling Green State University. He began his coaching career after eight seasons in the N.B.A.Credit...Tony Ding/Associated PressLouis Orr, a star forward at Syracuse who in the 1980s played for the Knicks alongside Bernard King and Patrick Ewing, and who later became a college coach, including as Ewing’s assistant at Georgetown, died on Thursday. He was 64.

The cause was cancer, Orr’s family said in a statement released by Georgetown. The statement did not say where he died.

Orr shot over 50 percent for all four years of his college career. After serving as the sixth man as a freshman, he became a starter. In the 1979-80 season he enjoyed a…