Lloyd "Sonny" Dove (August 16, 1945 – February 14, 1983) was an American professional basketball player.
That year he was part of the United States basketball team that won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg.
Lloyd Leslie Dove Jr. was born at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts in 1945 and nicknamed "Sonny.
Sonny's mother Adeline B. Dove (1921–2010) was Mashpee Wampanoag and the sister of Earl Mills Sr. (Flying Eagle), who for many after 1956 the sachem of this people.
He started under the legendary coach Joe Lapchick and was nicknamed the "Big Indian", as the team was called the Redmen.
He died at age 37 from injuries in an accident when the taxi he was driving skidded off a partially open bridge[10] into the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn in February 1983.
A memorial Mass was held at St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church, St. Albans, Queens.