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I wrote the Compendium of Professional Basketball and The Basketball Draft Fact Book and organized the Association for Professional Basketball Research.
Phoenix, AZ
Joined July 2010
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Up until 1968 all party candidates were selected by party conventions. This is nothing new. If you don't like a party's candidate, you don't vote for them.
Of course that said, just about anyone is better than the Orange Turd.
NBA players receiving lifetime bans for gambling -
1954 - Jack Molinas, Fort Wayne Pistons
2024 - Jontay Porter, Toronto Raptors
One of these things is not like the other -
Mr. Hockey - Gordie Howe
Mr. Basketball - George Mikan
Mr. Baseball - Bob Uecker
A few perfect old-timey nicknames -
Red Grange - The Galloping Ghost
Elroy Hirsch - Crazy Legs
Bill Mlkvy - The Owl without a Vowel
Chuck Bednarik - Concrete Charlie
Pete Rose - Charlie Hustle
Joe Namath - Broadway Joe
If given a choice, which historical baseball team would you root for?
A) The Chicago Orphans
B) The Cincinnati Porkers
C) The Cleveland Infants
Favorite pro basketball books -
Foul!
by David Wolf (1972)
The Breaks of the Game
by David Halberstam (1981)
Cages to Jump Shots
by Robert W. Peterson (1990)
Loose Balls
by Terry Pluto (1990)
Boxed out of the NBA
by Syl Sobel & Jay Rosenstein (2021)
Teams with a better W/L% and lead over the league at the All-Star Break than the Suns -
1964-65 Boston
1966-67 Philadelphia
1995-96 Chicago
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@LarryCoon is Richard Jefferson's oping out the worst player choice of the offseason? where do you see him ending up?