Basketball Legends History
Here are quick descriptions of each of the previous editions of Basketball Legends Revealed.
To see if they are true or false, you have to click on the link!
#1 – Danny Ainge once bit Tree Rollins during a playoff game.
Jim Thorpe played professional basketball.
#2 – The Celtics were once forced to play a game at midnight due to the Ice Capades!
The Celtics swapped the Ice Capades for future Celtic legend, Bill Russell.
A NCAA game once ended with a team playing 1-on-5!
Everett Case created the ACC Tournament.
#4 – Michael Jordan was cut by his high school basketball team.
There was a quota in the NBA in the 50s and early 60s of how many black players could be on a team.
The Harlem Globetrotters began in Chicago!!
#5 – Larry Bird played a game where he shot all of his shots left-handed.
Del Harris once set a pick on Michael Adams during a game!
Dave Cowens once took a break from the Celtics during the season to drive a cab.
#6 – When he was 25, Pete Maravich correctly identified when he would retire and when he would die.
Bill Laimbeer played a Sleestak on the children’s television show Land of the Lost.
Michael Jordan bought a fancy team bus for his minor league baseball team to ride around in.
A convicted man asked for his sentence to be INCREASED to honor his favorite baseball player.
#8 – Wilt Chamberlain had an infamously poor reaction to his coach’s invention of morning shootarounds.
Wilt Chamberlain is in the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
A game against Wilt Chamberlain helped convince a college star not to play in the NBA.
While in the NBA, Dave Bing went to work for the same bank that denied him a mortgage for a house.
An NBA player tried to get a triple double though a somewhat…odd fashion.
#10 – Los Angeles Clippers guard Eric Gordon played Michael Jordan’s son in the film Space Jam.
#11 – Anfernee Hardaway was named “Anfernee” by mistake.
The Knicks participated in a special lottery where they nearly drafted Bob Cousy!
The NBA tried out 12-foot rims to handicap George Mikan.
Ta da!
Just saw your urban legend piece regarding the Undertaker and Magic Johnson-while he did not play with Mark Calloway, he may have played against Kevin Nash, formerly known as “diesel”, in Michigan, where they were the #1 and 2 top players in high school
Thanks, Mike. I’ll look into it!