zoneranger Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Whozis All-Star?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OB33 Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 I'm gonna take a wild guess and go with Elgin Baylor #CHOMPCHOMPCHOMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockchalk Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 George Gervin? I've decided to give up hope for all sports teams I follow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralW91 Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Willie Wise? www.ABAsite.tk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapshot Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Spencer Haywood Back-to-Back Fatal Forty Champion 2015 & 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaolinaJoe Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Dave Bing? "It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of thepress. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom ofspeech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given usthe freedom to demonstrate. And it is the soldier who salutes theflag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, andwho allows the protester to burn the flag."Marine Chaplain Dennis Edward O' Brien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plaid Paint Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Spencer Haywood or Connie Hawkins, but my gut says it's Spencer. It's defintely an ABA player 'cause of the multi-colored ball. It's only in the last few years that the NBA has used multi-colored balls, and even then never in actual games, but just the various All-Star challenge thingees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 Nice call by Plaid Paint on the ABA ball, so in that case I'll go with Spencer Haywood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoneranger Posted May 18, 2005 Author Share Posted May 18, 2005 Good eye, Slaps and Paint. Spencer Haywood joined the ABA in 1969-70 and had a phenomenal first season. He was the league's Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player. He also won the ABA scoring title with an average of 30.0 ppg, and he led the league in rebounding with a remarkable 19.5 rpg to set the ABA's all-time record. The next season the 21-year-old Haywood shook up both the ABA and the NBA when he left the Rockets to sign with the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics. At the time, the NBA prohibited the drafting or signing of a player before his college class had graduated. Haywood's class wouldn't graduate until the end of the 1970-71 campaign, but the Sonics signed him anyway. The NBA league office and other NBA teams opposed the move, protesting that it violated existing rules and that, since Haywood hadn't gone through a draft, the Sonics had no right to him. The NBA took Haywood and the Sonics to court. The argument in Haywood's favor was that, as the sole wage earner in his struggling family, he was a "hardship case" and therefore had a right to begin earning his living. The Supreme Court ruled in Haywood's favor, forever altering professional basketball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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