Basketball Urban 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. The Celtics were once forced to play a game at midnight due to the Ice Capades!
2. The Harlem Globetrotters began in Chicago.
3. Michael Jordan was cut by his high school basketball team.
5. Larry Bird played a game where he shot all of his shots left-handed.
7. Danny Ainge once bit Tree Rollins during a playoff game.
8. Jim Thorpe played professional basketball.
10. An NCAA basketball game once ended with a team playing 1-on-5!
11. Del Harris once set a pick on Michael Adams during a game!
12. Dave Cowens once took a break from the Celtics during the season to drive a cab.
13. A convicted man asked for his sentence to be INCREASED to honor his favorite basketball player.
14. Wilt Chamberlain had an infamously poor reaction to his coach’s invention of morning shootarounds.
15. Wilt Chamberlain is in the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
17. Michael Jordan bought a fancy team bus for his minor league baseball team to ride around in.
18. An NBA player tried to get a triple double though a somewhat…odd fashion.
19. Anfernee Hardaway was named “Anfernee” by mistake.
20. While in the NBA, Dave Bing went to work for the same bank that denied him a mortgage for a house.
21. NBA guard Eric Gordon played Michael Jordan’s son in the film Space Jam.
23. The NBA tried out 12-foot rims to handicap George Mikan.
24. The Knicks participated in a special lottery where they nearly drafted Bob Cousy!
25. Red Holzman got his start in professional basketball due to the fact that he was Jewish.
27. The Philadelphia Warriors drafted Wilt Chamberlain while he was still in high school.
Ta da!
Thanks, Mike. I’ll look into it!