Did you know that he was also the first number-one draft pick since LeBron James to win the Rookie of the year award?
Year, he joined Michael Jordan (1985) and Elton Brand (2000) as the only Bulls to do so?
Did you know that he was also the first number-one draft pick since LeBron James to win the Rookie of the year award?
Did you know that in Rose playoff debut against the defending champion Boston Celtics, Rose recorded 36 points (tying Kareem Abdul-Jabbar‘s NBA record for points scored by a rookie in his playoff debut set 1970?
Did you know that Derrick Rose became the second player in NBA history to record 35 points and 10 assists in his playoff debut, after Chris Paul?
Rose averaged 19.7 points on 47.5% shooting, 6.3 assists and 4.9 rebounds per game in his playoff debut,
Did you know that at season’s end, that Rose became only the third player in the past thirty years of the NBA to record 2,000 points and 600 assists in a single season?
Did you know that LeBron James and Michael Jordan also scored 2,000 points and had 600 assists in a single season?[76]
Did you know that on May 3, 2011, Derrick Rose, at the age of 22, was named the NBA Most Valuable Player, becoming the youngest player in league history to receive the award?
Did you know that Rose joined Michael Jordan as the only players from the Chicago Bulls to receive the MVP award in history?[77]
Did you know that Rose lead his high school the Simeon Wolverines to win two straight state championships?
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Did you know that this is thesecond time in history that 3 players score 30 points in a game?
Did you know that 3 members of Houston at least 25 points, Kevin Martin scored 29 points, Luis Scola had 28 and Kyle Lowry had 25 points, nine assists and seven rebounds for the Rockets?
Did you know that on Nov. 14, 1997, when Portland’s Isaiah Rider, Brian Grant and Arvydas Sabonis all had 30-plus points and 10 or more rebounds in a quadruple-overtime win over Phoenix?
Did you know that Miami had three players score 30 points or more for the first time in the franchise’s 23-year history?
Did you know that it was the first time an NBA team had three players with 30-plus points and 10 or more rebounds since Portland’s Isaiah Rider, Brian Grant and Arvydas Sabonis reached those marks Nov. 14, 1997, in a quadruple-overtime victory against Phoenix?
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Who is Pamela Denise McGee?
Who is Pamela Denise McGee? The Sports world knows her as Pamela McGee a former WNBA player and assistant coach. At age 34, Pamela was the second overall pick in the 1997 WNBA Draft. She played in the league for two seasons with the Sacramento Monarchs and Los Angeles Sparks.
Pamela was Born December 1, 1962 in Flint, Michigan. McGee won back-to-back NCAA Championships as an All-American at the University of Southern California, where she was a teammate of twin sister Paula, and Cynthia Cooper and Cheryl Miller. In 1984, she won Olympic gold in Los Angeles before embarking on a professional career that included stints in Brazil, France, Italy and Spain.
Pamela is the mother of JaVale McGee, who currently plays for the Washington Wizards of the NBA. She is the first WNBA player to have a son play in the NBA.
Pamela was Born December 1, 1962 in Flint, Michigan. McGee won back-to-back NCAA Championships as an All-American at the University of Southern California, where she was a teammate of twin sister Paula, and Cynthia Cooper and Cheryl Miller. In 1984, she won Olympic gold in Los Angeles before embarking on a professional career that included stints in Brazil, France, Italy and Spain.
Pamela is the mother of JaVale McGee, who currently plays for the Washington Wizards of the NBA. She is the first WNBA player to have a son play in the NBA.
External links
- http://www.wnba.com/coachfile/pamela_mcgee/index.html?nav=page
- http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2008/columns/story?page=080513-mcgee
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001943_pf.html
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Lorenzen Vern-Gagne Wright was found dead he was 35
Lorenzen Vern-Gagne Wright was an American professional basketball player was found dead he was 35.
(November 4, 1975 – July 2010[1])
Raised in Oxford, Mississippi, Wright played all levels of basketball in Memphis – high school, collegiate and professional. Wright was selected a Third Team All-America by the Associated Press as a sophomore at the University of Memphis.
After being selected seventh overall by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1996 NBA Draft out of the University of Memphis, Wright moved on to the Atlanta Hawks in 1999. He was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies in 2001, but returned to the Hawks in 2006.
On February 16, 2008, he was involved in a multi-player trade, going from Atlanta to Sacramento for Mike Bibby.[2]
He held career averages of 8.0 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, playing in 778 (793 including playoffs) NBA games over 13 seasons.
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Personal life
Wright founded the Sierra Simone Wright Scholarship Fund after the death of his infant daughter in March 2003. During the summer of 2003, he returned to the University of Memphis to finish his degree. His father Herb was a professional basketball player who competed in Finland.
During his first stint in Atlanta, Wright and three other Memphis-native NBA players (Todd Day, Penny Hardaway and Elliot Perry) provided financial assistance to Travis Butler, a Memphis orphan whose tragic story garnered national attention. [3]
Wright was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated; initiated Spring 1996 to the Kappa Beta Chapter (The 12 Disciples of the Diamond).
Disappearance and death
Wright left his ex-wife’s home on 18 July 2010, and was not seen or heard from again. His family filed a missing persons report on July 22. [4][5] After Wright’s body was found on July 28 in a wooded area by Hacks Cross Road, it was reported that a 9-1-1 call had been received from his cell phone in the early morning of July 19; the caller was speaking with the dispatcher when gun shots rang out. [6] The case is being investigated as a homicide. [7]
NBA career statistics
| Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Regular season
Year |
Team |
GP |
GS |
MPG |
FG% |
3P% |
FT% |
RPG |
APG |
SPG |
BPG |
PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996–97 | LA Clippers | 77 | 51 | 25.1 | .481 | .250 | .587 | 6.1 | .6 | .6 | .8 | 7.3 |
| 1997–98 | LA Clippers | 69 | 38 | 30.0 | .445 | .000 | .659 | 8.8 | .8 | .8 | 1.3 | 9.0 |
| 1998–99 | LA Clippers | 48 | 15 | 23.6 | .458 | .000 | .692 | 7.5 | .7 | .5 | .8 | 6.6 |
| 1999–00 | Atlanta | 75 | 0 | 16.1 | .499 | .333 | .644 | 4.1 | .3 | .4 | .5 | 6.0 |
| 2000–01 | Atlanta | 71 | 46 | 28.0 | .448 | .000 | .718 | 7.5 | 1.2 | .6 | .9 | 12.4 |
| 2001–02 | Memphis | 43 | 33 | 29.1 | .459 | .000 | .569 | 9.4 | 1.0 | .7 | .5 | 12.0 |
| 2002–03 | Memphis | 70 | 49 | 28.3 | .454 | .000 | .659 | 7.5 | 1.1 | .7 | .8 | 11.4 |
| 2003–04 | Memphis | 65 | 46 | 25.8 | .439 | .000 | .733 | 6.8 | 1.1 | .7 | .9 | 9.4 |
| 2004–05 | Memphis | 80 | 77 | 28.6 | .469 | .000 | .662 | 7.7 | 1.1 | .7 | .9 | 9.6 |
| 2005–06 | Memphis | 78 | 58 | 21.7 | .478 | .000 | .564 | 5.1 | .6 | .7 | .6 | 5.8 |
| 2006–07 | Atlanta | 67 | 31 | 15.4 | .448 | .000 | .281 | 3.2 | .6 | .4 | .4 | 2.6 |
| 2007–08 | Atlanta | 13 | 1 | 11.4 | .294 | .000 | .500 | 2.8 | .2 | .2 | .2 | 1.0 |
| 2007–08 | Sacramento | 5 | 0 | 2.6 | .250 | .000 | .000 | .2 | .2 | .0 | .0 | .4 |
| 2008–09 | Cleveland | 17 | 2 | 7.4 | .370 | .000 | .375 | 1.5 | .2 | .2 | .3 | 1.4 |
| Career | 778 | 447 | 23.8 | .459 | .069 | .645 | 6.4 | .8 | .6 | .7 | 8.0 |
Playoffs
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Team |
GP |
GS |
MPG |
FG% |
3P% |
FT% |
RPG |
APG |
SPG |
BPG |
PPG |
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| 1996–97 | LA Clippers | 3 | 3 | 30.7 | .406 | .000 | 1.000 | 7.3 | .7 | 1.0 | .7 | 10.3 |
| 2003–04 | Memphis | 4 | 4 | 25.0 | .435 | .000 | .333 | 4.3 | .5 | 1.0 | .5 | 5.5 |
| 2004–05 | Memphis | 4 | 4 | 21.3 | .571 | .000 | .500 | 5.0 | 2.3 | .2 | .2 | 8.3 |
| 2005–06 | Memphis | 4 | 0 | 21.5 | .611 | .000 | .700 | 5.0 | .8 | .0 | 1.0 | 7.3 |
| Career | 15 | 11 | 24.2 | .495 | .000 | .652 | 5.3 | 1.1 | .5 | .6 | 7.7 |
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Did you know who are some of the heavy weights in the NBA?
| Weight | Players | ||
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 325 |
Shaquille O’Neal | ||
 310 |
Yao Ming | ||
 285 |
Andrew Bynum | ||
 289 |
Glen Davis | ||
 285 |
Greg Oden | ||
 280 |
Kendrick Perkins | ||
 285 |
Eddie Curry | ||
| 278 | Roy Hibbert | ||
| 275 | Zaza Pachulia | ||
| 270 | Aaron Gray | ||
| 300 | Kyrylo Fesenko | ||
| 270 | Kwame Brown | ||
Did you know what player achieved 5×5?
5X5 is when a Player record 5 catagories with atleast 5 things in each catagory. IE 5 points, 5 assist, 5 blocks, 5 rebounds, and 5 steals.
Year Player Team P R A B S1987 Olajuwon, Hakeem Houston 38 17 06 12 07* 1990 Olajuwon, Hakeem Houston 29 18 10 12 05 1992 Olajuwon, Hakeem Houston 19 13 06 05 05 1993 Olajuwon, Hakeem Houston 33 13 05 05 05 1993 Olajuwon, Hakeem Houston 24 19 06 05 05 1993 Olajuwon, Hakeem Houston 34 10 05 08 05
1993 Robinson, David San Antonio 29 05 05 10 05
1993 Coleman, Derek New Jersey 21 10 07 05 07
1995 Divac, Vlade LA Lakers 19 12 08 05 05
2001 Tinsley,Jamaal Indiana 12 09 15 05 06
2003 Kirilenko,Andrei Utah 19 05 07 05 08 2003 Kirilenko,Andrei Utah 10 12 06 05 06 2006 Kirilenko,Andrei Utah 14 08 09 07 06
2004 Camby,Marcus Denver 08 11 05 08 05
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Lebron still needs help!
The reason that Le Bron still needs help is that King James can not do it by himself! No NBA champs have ever won it with one superstar. You see although James has a good supporting cast, lets face it, who are they? So if you have to think about it then my point is made.
Just to give you an ideal what I am talking about Magic had Worthy, Jordan had Pippen, and Bird had McHale. I am not saying run out an get a super star that’s going to compete with James, but someone to compliment his style. When you have Hall of Fame rs, they also create them as well!
James needs either a forward who has got game or a decent point guard.Then build your team around your pieces and then you can watch the champions roll in…
Some people could not understand the firing of the coach (Mike Brown) and GM Danny Ferry because they had winning seasons. Think about it this way, when the Bulls fired Doug Collins the team had a winning season as well, but they were not wining championships so they had to lets him go. Although after they hired Phil Jackson the rest was history! It was win win for everyone.
You see finding a player is not enough, finding a player to help you win is not only what you want but what you need as well. Then Super Human play of James is why record books have his names listed in so many areas james just keep breaking records. Although many question why has he not won a championship? Lets look at it from this view point… For a team to have championship win, they need champions! It is still a question is the King as good as Jordan. The only way that you can answer that question is yes and no.
The reason that I can say yes is that the King has managed to pick his team up and carry them on his shoulder do what Jordan did in many a instance quicker than Kobe and Jordan. How can I make such a statement well lets look at it this way it took Michael Jordan until (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995-96 NBA season. Jordan
Jordan joined the NBA’s Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames “Air Jordan” and “His Airness“. He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball
Kobe Bean Bryant
He was selected with the 13th overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets, then traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. Bryant and then-teammate Shaquille O’Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships from 2000 to 2002.
At just 18, he was selected with the number one pick in the 2003 NBA Draft by the Cavaliers and signed a US$90 million shoe contract with Nike before his professional debut. Listed as a small forward, James has set numerous youngest player records since joining the league
The focal point of the Cleveland offense, James has led the team to consecutive playoff appearances from 2006 through 2010. In 2007, the Cavaliers advanced to the Conference Finals
So now the point is not to make a move that says all they got him, but a power move that makes people say how did they do that. Then things wete
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Did you know who had the most Steal in his career?
These are the giants who have the career highs in…
Points 38,387 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Assists 15,806 John Stockton Steals 3,265 John Stockton
Rebounds 23,924 Wilt Chamberlain
Blocks 3,830 Hakeem Olajuwon
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Did you know the players to win NCAA Championships, a Olypmic Gold Medals and a NBA championship?
Did you know what players won those championships?
Clyde Lovelette
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NCAA: 1952 (Kansas)
Olympics: 1952
NBA: 1954 (Minneapolis), 1963, 1964 (Boston)
K.C. Jones
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NCAA: 1956 (San Francisco)
Olympics: 1956
NBA: 1957, 1959-1966 (Boston)
Bill Russell
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NCAA: 1956 (San Francisco)
Olympics: 1956
NBA: 1957, 1959-1966, 1968, 1969 (Boston)
Jerry Lucas
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NCAA: 1960 (Ohio State)
Olympics: 1960
NBA: 1973 (New York)
– also won a high school state championship
Quinn Buckner
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NCAA: 1976 (Indiana)
Olympics: 1976
NBA: 1984 (Boston)
– also won a high school state championship
Earvin “Magic” Johnson
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NCAA: 1979 (Michigan State)
Olympics: 1992
NBA: 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988 (L.A. Lakers)
– also won a high school state championship
Michael Jordan
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NCAA: 1982 (North Carolina)
Olympics: 1984, 1992
NBA: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998 (Chicago)
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Did you know what women team won 3 consecutive NCAA titles?
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Did you know the only NCAA College Basketball team to have 4 Undefeated Seasons?
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Did you know what NCAA college basketball teams won men and women championships in the same year?
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Did you know what players won gold medal, NCAA college basketball championship, and NBA Championship?
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Did you know the Women Huskies are the only woman’s basketball program to have had every game in a season televised?
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The only players in history to achieve Quadruple-Doubles
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San Antonio Spurs | Feb. 17th, 1994 | Detroit |
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Houston Rockets | Mar. 29th, 1990 | Milwaukee |
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San Antonio Spurs | Feb. 18th, 1986 | Phoenix |
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Chicago Bulls | Oct. 18th, 1974 | Atlanta |
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Who is Larry Joe Bird?
Who is Larry Joe Bird? The sports world knows him as a basketball legend. Bird is a retired American NBA basketball player, widely considered one of the best players of all time and one of the top clutch performers in the history of sports.[1] Drafted into the NBA sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in 1978, Bird started at small forward and power forward for thirteen seasons, teaming with legendary center Robert Parish and forward Kevin McHale. Due to back problems, he retired as a player from the NBA in 1992. Bird was voted to the NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team[1] in 1996 and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame[2] in 1998. He served as head coach of the Indiana Pacers from 1997 to 2000. In 2003, he assumed the role of president of basketball operations for the Pacers, which he currently still holds.
Larry Bird was born December 7, 1956 in West Baden, Indiana, the son of Georgia Kerns and Claude Joseph “Joe” Bird. He grew up in both West Baden and the adjacent town French Lick, which earned him the nickname “the Hick from French Lick” in his later basketball career. Financial troubles would plague the Bird family for most of Larry’s childhood. In a 1988 interview with Sports Illustrated, Bird recalled how his mother would make do on the family’s meager earnings: “If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she’d get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don’t mean she wouldn’t pay the bank, but the children always came first.” Bird sometimes was sent to live with his grandmother due to the family’s struggles. Bird told Sports Illustrated that being poor as a child “motivates me to this day”.
The Bird family’s struggle with poverty was compounded by the alcoholism and personal difficulties of Joe Bird. In 1975, after Bird’s parents divorced, his father committed suicide.
In spite of his domestic woes, by the time he was a high school sophomore, Bird had become one of the better basketball players in French Lick. He starred for French Lick/West Baden’s high school team, Springs Valley High School, where he left as the school’s all-time scoring leader. Bird’s high school coach, Jim Jones, was a key factor to Bird’s success. “Jonesie’, as Bird called him, would come help Bird and his friends practice any day of the week. Bird would always be in the gym early, shoot in between classes, and then stay late into the evening. He quit both football and baseball to focus on the sport he loved, basketball.
Bird received a basketball scholarship to Indiana University in 1974. However, he was 
overwhelmed by the size of the campus and number of students and, as he would later admit in his biographies, wasn’t mentally ready for this stage of life. Bird was also treated poorly by an established IU star, Kent Benson; as Bird recalled, the other upperclassmen of the team treated him well.He dropped out of Indiana and went home to French Lick where he enrolled in the nearby Northwood Institute before dropping out and getting a job with the Street Department (the department did pick up garbage once a week, but also repaired roads, removed snow, mowed lawns, etc.) for a year.[6] He played AAU basketball for Hancock Construction [7] and, after that year, decided to enroll at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, where he was coached by Bob King.
King suffered a stroke prior to the 1978–79 season and assistant Bill Hodges was promoted to head coach. Hodges had been scouting Bird and really wanted him to play for ISU. Bird led the Sycamores to the NCAA championship game in 1979, his senior season, only to lose to the Michigan State University Spartans, who were led by his future NBA rival, Earvin “Magic” Johnson. The Sycamores finished the season 33–1. That year, Bird won the USBWA College Player of the Year, Naismith and Wooden Awards, given to the year’s top male college basketball player. After his three seasons at Indiana State, he left as the fifth-highest scorer in NCAA history. Bird finished his collegiate career with an average of 30.3 points per game. He is on the Missouri Valley Conference All-Century Team.
The Boston Celtics selected the 6’9″, 220-pound Bird 6th overall in the 1978 NBA Draft, even though they were uncertain whether he would enter the NBA or remain at Indiana State to play his senior season. Bird ultimately decided to play his final college season, but the Celtics retained their exclusive right to sign him until the 1979 NBA Draft, because of the NBA’s “junior eligible”
rule that existed at that time (allowing a collegiate player to be drafted when the player’s original “entering” class was graduating and giving them one calendar year to sign them, even if they went back to college). Shortly before that deadline, Bird agreed to sign with the Celtics for a US $650,000 a year contract, making him at the time the highest-paid rookie in the history of the NBA. Shortly afterwards, the NBA draft eligibility rules were changed to prevent teams from drafting players before they were ready to sign. The rule is called the Bird Collegiate Rule.
Larry Bird’s impact on the Celtics was immediate. The Celtics were 29–53 during the 1978–79 season, but with Bird the team improved to 61–21 in the 1979–80 season, posting the league’s best regular season record. Bird’s collegiate rival, Magic Johnson, also had entered the NBA in 1979, joining the Los Angeles Lakers. In 1980, despite a strong rookie season from Johnson, Bird was named the league’s Rookie of the Year and was voted onto the Eastern Conference All-Star team (an honor he would receive for each of his 12 full seasons in the NBA). For the 1980 season, Bird led the Celtics in scoring (21.3 points/game), rebounding (10.4 rebounds/game), steals (143), and minutes played (2,955) and was second in assists (4.5 assists/game) and three-pointers (58). Though Boston was beaten by the more athletic Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Conference finals that year, Bird’s addition to the team had renewed the promise of Celtic glory.
Following Bird’s first season, the Celtics acquired center Robert Parish and the 3rd pick in the 1980 NBA Draft via a trade with the Golden State Warriors (in exchange for the 1st and 13th picks in the draft). After the Warriors took Joe Barry Carroll with the 1st pick and the Utah Jazz chose Darrell Griffith second, the Celtics selected University of Minnesota power forward Kevin McHale. With Bird at small forward, the additions of Parish and McHale gave Boston one of the most formidable frontcourts in the history of the NBA. The three would anchor the Celtics throughout Bird’s career.
In his second season, Bird led the Celtics into the playoffs, where they faced off for a second consecutive year with Julius Erving‘s Philadelphia 76ers. Bird helped the Celtics overcome a 3–1 deficit by winning the last 3 games by 2, 2, and 1 point margins, propelling them into the NBA Finals, where they defeated the Houston Rockets in six games with Bird averaging 15.3 points on .419 shooting, 15.3 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game.[8] It would be the first of three championships in Bird’s career, as well as the first of his five Finals appearances.
The additions of Bird and Johnson rejuvenated the NBA, which had suffered from low attendance and minimal television interest through much of the 1970s. Immediately upon their entry into the league, the two players became repeating presences in the NBA Finals. Johnson’s Lakers won the championship in 1980, Bird’s Celtics captured the NBA title in 1981, and 
Johnson’s Lakers wrested it back in 1982. Bird and Johnson first dueled in the 1979 NCAA title game; as professional basketball players, they would face off numerous times during the 1980s, including the NBA Finals of 1984, 1985 and 1987. Lakers versus Celtics, and specifically Bird versus Magic, quickly became one of the greatest rivalries in the history of professional sports.
In 1984, the Celtics defeated the Lakers in a seven-game Finals, winning game seven 111–102. Bird averaged 27.4 points on .484 shooting and 14 rebounds a game during the series,[9] earning the award of Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). Bird was also named the league regular season MVP for that year.[10] In 1985, however, the Lakers avenged the loss, defeating the Celtics in game 6 of the Finals in the Boston Garden. In a losing effort against Los Angeles, Bird averaged 23.8 points on .449 shooting, 8.8 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game.[11] That year, the NBA again named Bird the league MVP.[12]
Boston would have another great season the next year, with help from another Hall of Famer, Bill Walton. Walton had been refused by the Lakers, and as a last chance, called Celtics president and general manager Red Auerbach. Auerbach was initially unwilling to take a risk on Walton, who had been plagued for years by foot injuries. But Bird, who happened to be in Auerbach’s office at the time of Walton’s call, urged him to sign Walton, saying that if Walton felt he was healthy enough to play, it was all Bird needed to hear.
With Walton backing up Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, the Celtics would return to the finals in 1986, albeit not against Johnson and the Lakers, who lost in the Western Conference Finals to the Houston Rockets. The 1986 Celtic team, which finished the regular season 67–15 and defeated the Rockets in six games, is generally considered to be the best of Bird’s career. Bird again was named the Finals’ MVP for that year, averaging 24 points on .482 shooting, 9.7 rebounds and 9.5 assists per game for the series.[13] He also won his third consecutive league MVP award,[14] a feat matched only by the great Celtic center Bill Russell and the dominant Wilt Chamberlain, who played for Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
In 1987, the Celtics made their last Finals appearance of Bird’s career, fighting through difficult series against the Milwaukee Bucks and Detroit Pistons but as they reached the NBA Finals, the Celtics, plagued by devastating injuries, lost to a dominant Lakers team which had won 65 games during the season. The Celtics ended up losing to the Lakers in six games, with Bird averaging 24.2 points on .445 shooting, 10 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game in the championship series.[15] The Celtics would fall short in 1988 losing to the Pistons in 6 games in the Eastern Conference Finals as the Pistons made up from the heartbreak the previous season. Between them, Bird and Johnson captured eight NBA championships during the 1980s, with Magic getting five and Bird three. During the 1980s, either Boston or Los Angeles appeared in every NBA Finals.
Throughout the 1980s, contests between the Celtics and the Lakers—both during the regular season and in the Finals—attracted enormous television audiences. The first regular season game between the Celtics and the Lakers in the 1987-88 season proved to be a classic with Magic Johnson banking in an off balance shot from near the 3-point line at the buzzer for a 115-114 Lakers win at Boston Garden.[16] The historical rift between the teams, which faced each other several times in championship series of the 1960s, fueled fan interest in the rivalry. Not since Russell squared off against Chamberlain had professional basketball enjoyed such a marquee matchup. The apparent contrast between the two players and their respective teams seemed scripted for television: Bird, the introverted small-town hero with the blue-collar work ethic, fitted perfectly with the throwback, hard-nosed style of the Celtics, while the stylish, gregarious Johnson ran the Lakers’ fast-paced “Showtime” offense amidst the bright lights and celebrities of Los Angeles. A 1986 Converse commercial for its “Weapon” line of basketball shoes (endorsed by both Bird and Johnson) reflected the perceived dichotomy between the two players. In the commercial, Bird is practicing alone on a rural basketball court when Johnson pulls up in a sleek limousine and challenges him to a one-on-one match.
Despite the intensity of their rivalry, Bird and Johnson became friends off the court. Their
friendship blossomed when the two players worked together to film the 1986 Converse commercial, which depicted them as archenemies. Johnson appeared at Bird’s retirement ceremony on February 4, 1993 and emotionally described Bird as a “friend forever.”
1988–1992: The twilight years
In 1988, Bird had the best statistical season of his career, but the Celtics failed to reach the NBA Finals for the first time in four years, losing to the Pistons in six games during the Eastern Conference Finals. Bird started the 1988–89 season with Boston, but ended his season after six games to have bone spurs surgically removed from both of his heels. He returned to the Celtics in 1989, but debilitating back problems and an aging Celtic roster prevented him from regaining his mid-1980s form. Nonetheless, through the final years of his career, Bird maintained his status as one of the premier players in the game. He averaged over 20 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists a game in his last three seasons with the Celtics, and shot better than 45% from the field in each. Bird led the Celtics to playoff appearances in each of those three seasons.
Bird’s body, however, continued to break down. He had been bothered by back problems for years, and his back became progressively worse. After leading the Celtics to a 29-5 start to the 1990-91 season, he missed 22 games due to a compressed nerve root in his back, a condition that would eventually lead to his retirement. He had off-season surgery to remove a disc from his back, but his back problems continued and he missed 37 games during the 1991–92 season. During the 1992 Eastern Conference semi-finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers Bird missed 4 of 7 games in the series due to his back problems.
Olympic medal record
Men’s basketball
In the summer of 1992, Bird joined Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and other NBA stars to play for the United States basketball team in that year’s Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. It was the first time in America’s Olympic history that the country sent professional basketball players to compete. The “Dream Team” won the men’s basketball gold medal.
Following his Olympic experience, on August 18, 1992, Bird announced his retirement as an NBA player. He finished his career with averages of more than 24 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists per game, while shooting 49.6% from the field, 88.6% from the free throw line and 37.6% from three-point range. Following Bird’s departure, the Celtics promptly retired his jersey number “33”.
In 1989, Bird published his autobiography, Drive: The Story of My Life with Bob Ryan. The book chronicles his life and career up to the 1989 NBA season.
The Celtics employed Bird as a special assistant in the team’s front office from 1992 until 1997. 
In 1997, Bird accepted the position of coach of the Indiana Pacers. Despite having no previous coaching experience, Bird led the Pacers to an Eastern Conference championship in 2000 and two Eastern Conference runner-up finishes the previous two seasons. He was named the NBA Coach of the Year for the 1998 season.
Bird resigned as Pacers coach shortly after the end of the 2000 season. In 2003, he returned as the Pacers’ President of Basketball Operations, where he oversees team personnel and coaching moves, as well as the team’s draft selections.
Indiana Pacers
1998: 58–24, Eastern Conference Runner-Up
1999: 33–17, Eastern Conference Runner-Up (note: season was shortened due to lockout)
2000: 56–26, Eastern Conference Champions
Legacy
“Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.” — Magic Johnson, as quoted at Bird’s retirement party.
Bird’s humble roots led to his most frequently used moniker, “The Hick From French Lick”. Other observers called him “The Great White Hope”. In 1999, Bird ranked #30 in ESPN‘s SportsCentury’s 50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century.
For the 2008 NBA Finals, which featured a rematch of the Celtics-Lakers rivalry, Bird appeared in a split-screen advertisement with Magic Johnson (as part of the “There Can Only Be One” campaign which had played throughout the 2008 NBA Playoffs but to that point only featured players from the two teams competing in a given series) discussing the meaning of rivalries.
Bird, a versatile wing man who played the power forward and small forward positions, is considered as one of the greatest wing players of all time, to which his twelve All-Star team nominations are a testament. The versatile, sharpshooting Bird made his name stepping up his performance in critical situations, and is credited with a long list of dominating games, buzzer beaters and clutch defensive plays. He won two NBA Finals MVP and three regular-season MVP awards, something only five other players in the history of the NBA have accomplished. He won them all in a row, a feat only shared by Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain.
Bird possessed an uncanny and unparalleled ability to anticipate and react to the strategies of his opponents. His talent for recognizing the moves of opponents and teammates prompted his first
coach with the Celtics, Bill Fitch, to nickname him “Kodak“, because he seemed to formulate mental pictures of every play that took place on the court.
Bird scored 24.3 points per game in his career on a high .496 field goal average, a stellar .886 free throw average (9th best all-time) and a 37.6 percentage on 3-point shots. Bird was also a good rebounder (10.0 rebound career average) and an excellent playmaker (6.3 assist career average). His multidimensional game made him a consistent triple-double threat; Bird currently ranks fifth all-time in triple-doubles with 59, not including the 10 he recorded in the playoffs. Bird’s lifetime player efficiency rating (PER) is 23.5, 16th all-time, a further testament to his all around game.[18] Bird’s high free throw percentage is due in no small part to the fact that when he was a boy, he used to shoot 200 free throws before school, every day, according to a late 1990s Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance commercial with Larry himself.
Bird is also remembered as an excellent defender. While he was neither fast or quick-footed, and could not always shut down an individual player one-on-one, he consistently displayed a knack for anticipating the moves of his opponent, allowing him to intercept passes and create turnovers. His 1,556 career steals ranks 27th all-time.[19] Unspectacular but effective defensive moves, such as jumping into a passing lane to make a steal or allowing his man to step past and drive to the hoop, then blocking the opponent’s shot from behind, were staples of Bird’s defensive game. In recognition of his defensive abilities, Bird was named to three All-Defensive Second Teams.
Bird’s competitive nature often emerged in nearly constant trash-talking on the court. Some notable examples follow:
During the three-point shooting contest on All-Star Weekend 1986, Bird entered the locker room, looked around without saying a word, then finally said, “I want all of you to know I am winning this thing. I’m just looking around to see who’s gonna finish up second.” He won the shooting contest.
During one game on Christmas Day against the Indiana Pacers, before the game Bird told Chuck Person that he had a Christmas present waiting for him. During the game, when Person was on the bench, Bird shot a three-pointer on the baseline right in front of Person. Immediately after releasing the ball, Bird said to Person, “Merry f***in’ Christmas!”, and then the shot went in. This was no doubt inspired by Person (nicknamed the “Rifleman”) stating prior to the game that “The Rifleman is Coming, and He’s Going Bird Hunting.”
Reggie Miller recalled his encounter with Larry Bird’s legendary trash talking ability in his book “I Love Being The Enemy”. Reggie tried to disrupt Larry’s concentration when he was shooting free throws late in a game. Larry glared at him, made the first free throw and said, “Rook, I am the best f***ing shooter in the league. In the league, understand? And you’re up here trying to f***ing tell me something?” Then Larry buried the second free throw.
Late in a tied game against the Seattle SuperSonics, Bird told Supersonics forward Xavier McDaniel, who was guarding him, exactly where he would hit the game winning shot. After a timeout, Bird made two baseline cuts, then posted in the exact spot he had indicated to McDaniel, paused, turned, and hit the shot in his face.[20]
On November 9, 1984, Bird was ejected along with Julius Erving in the third quarter after an on court scuffle. At the point of both ejections, Bird had outscored Erving 42 to 6. During the game, Bird had continuously informed Erving of their tallies with every chance he got to score. Bird denies this stating that it was “M.L. (Carr) talking trash from the bench” during that game. Eventually a shoving match ensued, then swings taken by both players, and finally a bench-clearing brawl.
Prior to attending Indiana State University, Bird married his high-school girlfriend, Janet Condra.[22] The marriage lasted only 11 months, but produced a daughter, Corrie, born on August 14, 1977.
In 1998, Corrie Bird appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and revealed that she was Bird’s daughter from his first marriage though Larry had denied paternity until the mid ’80s. She 
discussed her longing to connect with her father, who she had not seen in 17 years. Corrie’s story was also shown on 20/20 and was run as an article in the September 4, 1998 issue of Sports Illustrated. Corrie, like her father, played basketball in high school and attended Indiana State University, graduating with a degree in elementary education.
On October 31, 1989, Bird married Dinah Mattingly
(Not related to New York Yankees legend and Los Angeles Dodgers coach Don Mattingly). The couple has two adopted children, son Connor and daughter Mariah.
Bird is remembered as one of the foremost clutch performers in the history of the NBA. Few players have performed as brilliantly in critical moments of games.
In Game 7 of the 1981 Eastern Conference finals against the rival Philadelphia 76ers, The Sixers led all game. Inside the final minute, Boston and Philadelphia were tied 89–89 when Bird sank a fast-break mid-range pull-up bank shot with his left hand, a very difficult shot to execute under intense pressure. That basket put the Celtics up 91-89. The Sixers had a chance to win the game, but threw away the lob inbounds pass intended for Julius Erving. The Celtics’ 91-90 win put them into the NBA finals for the first time since 1976 and they would go on to win the NBA championship in the Finals, beating the Houston Rockets in 6 games. In the late stages of the game, Bird also had two key steals, two free throws made, a rebound, and a blocked shot.
In 1985 (January 27), Larry Bird hit an amazing baseline jumper at the buzzer while falling out of bounds to give the Celtics a 128-127 win over Portland.
In the series-clinching Game 6 of the 1986 Finals, Bird recorded a triple-double of 29 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists.
In Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals against the Detroit Pistons, with six seconds
remaining in the fourth quarter and Boston trailing the Pistons 107–106, Bird stole an inbound pass from Isiah Thomas that was intended for Bill Laimbeer. Falling out of bounds, Bird turned and passed the ball to teammate Dennis Johnson, who was cutting to the basket and converted a 2-point layup with less than a second left. The Pistons called a timeout but had no chance of getting off a shot. The dramatic play saved the series for the Celtics who won in 7 games, and they advanced to the Finals.
In a game in Washington against the Bullets in 1987, the Celtics trailed the Bullets by 3 points with 6 seconds remaining in regulation. A three-pointer by Bird had been waved off because their coach, K. C. Jones, had already called a timeout. Bird then made another three-pointer to 
send the game into overtime. When the Celtics trailed by two points near the end of the first overtime, Bird was fouled and converted both free throws. In the second overtime, trailing by 1 point with 2 seconds remaining, Bird made a buzzer-beating running shot to win the game, 140–139.
In Game 7 of the 1988 Eastern Conference semifinals against the Atlanta Hawks, Bird shot 9 of 10 from the floor in the fourth quarter, scoring 20 points in that quarter and lifting the Celtics to a series-clinching victory over Atlanta. This effort helped to overcome a 47 point performance by Dominique Wilkins in the same game.
On March 31, 1991, the Celtics played a double overtime game with the Chicago Bulls in their last meeting of the season. In the second overtime period, Bird scored 9 points on 4 of 5 shooting from the field and helped the Celtics beat the Bulls, 135–132. Many called this particular game Bird’s finest performance against Michael Jordan.[23]
In the last seconds of a nationally-televised regular season game with the Portland Trail Blazers in March 1992, Bird sent the game into overtime with an off balance running one-handed three-point shot. Bird tallied 49 points, 14 rebounds, 12 assists and 4 steals for his 59th and final career triple-double in what many fans called his last great game in the NBA. The Celtics won in double overtime over the Blazers, 152–148.[24]
Michael Jordan once was asked who he would want to take a shot with the game on the line, other than himself. Before the question could be finished, Jordan quickly responded, “Larry Bird.”[25]
On August 18, 1992, Larry Bird announced his retirement during the day. At Fenway Park that day, the Red Sox were playing the California Angels. Roger Clemens, the Red Sox starting pitcher, had a small 33 on his hat as a tribute to Bird. Angels manager John Wathan immediately protested, saying it did not meet regulations. The crowd booed relentlessly, chanting “Larry, Larry, Larry.” Clemens threw his hat into the dugout in disgust when told it was not allowed. He then proceeded to throw a four-hit shutout for an 8-0 victory.[26]
At the end of his third three-point contest, Bird was trailing, needing to make his last couple shots. On his last shot, when he released it he turned his back and walked off the court with his index finger pointing up in the air that he was number one before the shot even went in, and then it went in and he won his third three-point contest in a row.
On March 30, 1983, Bird scored 53 points against the Indiana Pacers to set the Celtic record for highest scoring output in a game by an individual player (the previous record belonged to Sam Jones who scored 51 points against the Detroit Pistons on October 29, 1965). Bird also set the franchise record for most points scored in a quarter with 24 points in the third quarter which has since been equaled by Todd Day against the Minnesota Timberwolves on December 22, 1995.
On February 18, 1985, Bird registered a triple double (30 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists) and also had 9 steals in three quarters of play against the Utah Jazz. Bird sat out the fourth quarter, as the Celtics led 90–66 after the third quarter and won the game 110–94. When asked by reporters if he actually wanted to play in the fourth quarter to get the quadruple double, Bird said “What for? I already did enough damage to them.”
On March 3, 1985 Kevin McHale puts up a record high 56 points against the Detroit Pistons. As Kevin was coming down from the ramp from the rear of the old Boston Garden, he was asked about the feat that night to which he jokingly responded that the record wont last, Larry will probably beat it within the next couple games.
On March 12, 1985, Bird scored 60 points against the Atlanta Hawks to reclaim the record for highest scoring output in a game by a Celtic, just nine days after teammate Kevin McHale broke Bird’s previous record by scoring 56 points against the Detroit Pistons.
On April 1, 1987, Bird registered a triple double (17 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists) by halftime against the Washington Bullets. He finished the game with 30 points, 17 rebounds, and 15 assists.[27]
On November 11, 1987, Bird completed the first 40-point – 20-rebound game in Celtics history against the Indiana Pacers.
On November 10, 1989, Bird scored 50 points against the Atlanta Hawks to register his fourth and final 50-point game in his career.[28] Bird’s four career 50-point games stand as the record for most 50-point games by a Celtic.
Bird recorded three 40-point triple double games in his professional career. The first was on February 14, 1986 in an overtime win against the Portland Trail Blazers. He finished that game with 47 points, 14 rebounds, and 11 assists. The second occurred on December 13, 1989 in a win over the Seattle SuperSonics (40 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists). The last was in a double-overtime win against the Portland Trail Blazers on March 15, 1992 where Bird finished with 49 points (second place for the most points scored while recording a triple double), 14 rebounds, and 12 assists. Bird also totaled 69 triple doubles (59 regular season and 10 postseason) which stands behind Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, Jason Kidd, and Wilt Chamberlain for fifth most all-time.
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Did you know who is the most successuful Black NBA Basketball coach?
KC Jones also won 2 NBA Championships but he also took took 2 teams to the Championships as well.
1986 KC Jones, Celtics Won 4-2
1985 KC Jones, Celtics Lost 4-2
1984 KC Jones, Celtics Won 4-3
1975 KC Jones, Bullets Lost 4-0
Bill Russell won 2 rings as a coach
1969
Bill Russell, Celtics
Won 4-3
1968
Bill Russell, Celtics
Won 4-2
Lenny Wilkens won 1 championship as a head coach
1979 Lenny Wilkens, Sonics Won 4-1
1978 Lenny Wilkens, Sonics Lost 4-3
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Did you know that Michael Jordan won?
6× NBA Champion (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998)
- 5× NBA MVP (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998)
- 14× NBA All-Star (1985–1993, 1996–1998, 2002–2003)
- 6× NBA Finals MVP (1991–1993, 1996–1998)
- 1× NBA Defensive Player of the Year (1988)
- 10× All-NBA First Team Selection (1987–1993, 1996–1998)
- 1× All-NBA Second Team Selection (1985)
- 9× NBA All-Defensive First Team Selection (1988–1993, 1996–1998)
- 1985 NBA Rookie of the Year
- 1985 NBA All-Rookie Team
- 3× NBA All-Star Game MVP (1988, 1996, 1998)
- 2× NBA Slam Dunk Contest winner (1987, 1988)
- 2× Gold Medal Winner in the Olympics (1984, 1992)
- NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
- 1× NCAA Men’s Basketball Champion (1982)
- 2× Consensus NCAA All-American First Team (1983, 1984)
- 1982 ACC Freshman of the Year
- 1× ACC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year (1984)
- 1× USBWA College Player of the Year (1984)
- 1× Naismith College Player of the Year (1984)
- 1× John R. Wooden Award (1984)
- 1× Adolph Rupp Trophy (1984)
- 1991 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year
- 2000 ESPY Athlete of the Century
- 1990s ESPY Male Athlete Decade Award
- 1990s ESPY Pro Basketballer Decade Award
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Did you know what NBA player won the most MVP Awards?
That would be…
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has the most MVP awards with 6, followed by
Michael Jordan and Bill Russell with 5.
Did you know that Michael Jordan was not the number one draft pick?
Did you know what teams were dynasties?
Did you know the youngest person to score 40 points in a game?
Did you know who had the most NBA AllStar Appearances?
Did you know that Michael Jordan won?
Did you know what NBA player has won the most MVP?
Did you know that Robert Horry has more NBA championships than michael Jordan?
Did you know the only basketball award that Jordan did not win was high school state championship?
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Did you know What team won 3 consecutives NCAA titles?
That Team would be the Lady Vol’s Of Tennessee…
They were
| 1995–96† | Tennessee | 32–4 | 9-2 | 2nd | NCAA Champions |
| 1996–97 | Tennessee | 29–10 | 8-4 | 5th | NCAA Champions |
| 1997–98‡ | Tennessee | 39–0 | 14-0 | 1st | NCAA Champions |
| 1998–99 | Tennessee | 31–3 | 13-1 | 1st | NCAA Elite Eight |
| 1999–00‡ | Tennessee | 33–4 | 13-1 | T–1st | NCAA Runner-up |
Did you know that John Wooden, coached the UCLA Bruins to 7 consecutive championships from 1967 to 1973?
Did you know NCAA Teams went undefeated?
Did you know the only NCAA College Basketball team to have 4 Undefeated Seasons?
Did you know who has won more NCAA college championships in women college ball?
Did you know what NCAA college basketball teams won men and women championships in the same year?
Did you know who is the winning est coach in NCAA college basketball history?
Did you know what teams made NCAA College basketball history in 2008?
Did you know what players won gold medal, NCAA college basketball championship, and NBA Championship?
Did you know what players won high school championships, NCAA, Olypmic Gold Medals and a NBA championship?
Did you know the Women Huskies are the only woman’s basketball program to have had every game in a season televised?
Did you know what team won more NCAA college championships in women college ball?
Did you know what NCAA college basketball teams have won men and women championships in the same year?
Did you know who is the winning est coach in NCAA college basketball history?
Now if you didn’t know, now you know…
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Did You Know the Youngest Player to win the MVP
That player would be:
Wes Unseld at only 23,
followed by
Bob Pettit,
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
Bob McAdoo,
Moses Malone,
Wilt Chamberlain, and
Bill Russell who all received the award at the age of 24.
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Did you know what international players won the MVP Award
The players that won are.
Steve Nash (Canada / South Africa) and
Dirk Nowitzki (Germany).
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Did you know the oldest player to win the MVP Award was?
The oldest player to win the award was:
Karl Malone at age 36
,
followed by Michael Jordan who won his last MVP Award at 35.
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Did You Know the only player to win a NBA and ABA MVP Award?
That player would be …..
Julius ErvIn , he is the only player to win a NBA and ABA MVP Award.
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Did you know who the first woman to sign a free agent contract with the NBA?
Ann Meyers became the first woman to sign a free-agent contract with an NBA team when she inked a deal with the Indiana Pacers in 1979. Though she was quickly cut, the achievement was historic — and one in a series of barrier-breaking moments for Meyers, a 5 ft. 9 in. guard from California. She was the first high-school player ever to be tapped for the U.S. National Team; the first woman to win a full athletic scholarship to the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), where she became the first four-time All-American selection; and the first player drafted in the ill-fated Woman’s Professional Basketball Association, in 1978. When she married Los Angeles Dodgers hurler Don Drysdale
in 1986, they became the first couple ever to hold spots in their respective sports’ Halls of Fame.
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Did You Know Who Had four quadruple doubles in the NBA.
I found 6 people to accomplish such a feat, and they are…
1) Nate Thurmond,
October 18, 1974, Chicago vs. Atlanta; 22 points, 14 rebounds, 13 assists, 12 blocks.
2) Alvin Robertson,
February 18, 1986, San Antonio vs. Phoenix; 20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 steals.
3) Hakeem Olajuwon, 
March 29, 1990, Houston vs. Milwaukee; 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists, 11 blocks.
4) David Robinson, 
February 17, 1994, San Antonio vs. Detroit; 34 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 blocks.[4]
The first American female player above the high school level to officially record a quadruple-double was Ann Meyers, 
who achieved this feat in 1978 while playing for the UCLA Bruins.[36]
The first male player in NCAA Division I history to record a quadruple-double was Lester Hudson.[37]
He accomplished his feat with 25 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals against Central Baptist on Nov. 13, 2007
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Did you know who won 11 NBA basketball champions?
The Player with the most Championship rings is…
he has 11. He won in these years, he played 13 years in the NBA.
1957 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1968 1969 Boston Celtics
The Number 2 man is 
Sam Jones he won 10. He played 12 years in the NBA.
1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1968 1969
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Eight-grade Boy collapsed and died while conditioning for soccer
FAIRVIEW, Tenn. — An eighth-grade boy who was doing a conditioning workout for soccer has collapsed and died in a Middle Tennessee school gym.
Williamson County Director of Schools Mike Looney told The Tennessean he couldn’t release the boy’s name until teachers were alerted and counselors were called to be on hand Thursday morning at Fairview Middle School.
Looney said it wasn’t clear whether the youth died Wednesday at the school or later at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville.
Looney said the boy’s death would devastate the area there the school is located, which he described as “an extremely tight community.”
The soccer training was being conducted after the regular school day had ended.
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Bud Millikan died he was 89
Harold A. “Bud” Millikan died he was 89. Millikan was the head coach of the University of Maryland Terrapins men’s basketball team from 1950 to 1967. He compiled a 243–182 record. The former coach died on January 28, 2010 at the age of 89.
(October 12, 1920 – January 28, 2010)
Millikan was born in Maryville, Missouri and played on the Maryville High School (Missouri) basketball team that won the 1937 Missouri State High School Basketball Championship at a time when there were no divisions in state tournament play. He married his high school sweetheart Maxine. He followed Henry Iba who had coached at Northwest Missouri State University while Millikan was growing up in Maryville to Oklahoma A&M. [1] At Oklahoma State He was an “All American”, president of the student body and captain of the baseball and basketball teams. He was an assistant coach to Iba in its 1944 National Championship team.[2] Iba gave him the nickname of “Buddy” which was shortened to “Bud.” Millikan who had been a member of the Oklahoma State ROTC did not serve in World War II because of asthma. He returned to coach at Maryville High School and later other schools in Iowa. Iba arranged the meeting that brought Millikan to Maryland. After Iba returned to Missouri after the interview it was announced on the radio that Millikan had accepted an offer from Southwest Missouri State University although in fact he had not formally accepted the offer but it prompted Maryland to tell him they could pay him more.[3]
Among his players at Maryland were Gary Williams and Joe Harrington. Williams in his autobiography “Sweet Redemption” wrote, “I played for a first-rate coach in Bud Millikan, but after that, nothing was first-rate in the Maryland basketball program…You couldn’t play for Bud Millikan unless you were willing to play hard on the defensive end of the court. In practice, we would practice two and half hours of defense and spend about ten minutes on offense.”[4]
He coached the team to an NCAA Elite 8 appearance in 1958.[5] During his time Cole Field House was built. Millikan did not like the size of the field house saying at one point “It’s like playing on a neutral court” with seats too far from the courts. His successor Lefty Driesell added a few thousand seats around the court raising the hometown decibel level.[6]
Every senior who played for him graduated from the school. He imposed a discipline where players were required wear the team blazer when traveling and in warm-ups players wore towels around their necks in an ascot-like manner.[7]
He died in Roswell, Georgia.
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