Homer Winston Thompson (January 18, 1916 – June 19, 2007) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Indianapolis Kautskys and Sheboygan Red Skins in the National Basketball League, as well as the Louisville Colonels in the Professional Basketball League of America. Thompson played college basketball at the University of Kentucky (where he also boxed). His professional career was interrupted by serving in World War II. Thompson spent his post-basketball career as a teacher in

Jeffersonville, Indiana Jeffersonville is a city and the county seat of Clark County, Indiana, Clark County, Indiana, United States, situated along the Ohio River. Locally, the city is often referred to by the abbreviated name Jeff. It lies directly across the Ohio River ...

, before moving to

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, in 1958. He then worked for Broward County Board of Health. Thompson returned to Indiana in 2003 before dying several years later.

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