Dream Team Draft - rankings due Sunday night
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Hey SLAB, quick question - could you make Reed a Center under my team on the main page?
Kings Faithful
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My next pick was my favorite player during the Kings title run a few years ago...none other than... Peja Stojakovic!
*Greek League MVP (1997–1998)
*EuroBasket 2001 MVP
*2001 Euroscar Player of the Year
*2x Mister Europa Player of the Year (2001–02)
*3x NBA All-Star (2002–04)
*2004 All-NBA Second Team
*2x NBA Three-Point Shootout Winner (2002–03)
Best Season - 03/04
24.2 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 2.1 apg, 1.3 spg
*Greek League MVP (1997–1998)
*EuroBasket 2001 MVP
*2001 Euroscar Player of the Year
*2x Mister Europa Player of the Year (2001–02)
*3x NBA All-Star (2002–04)
*2004 All-NBA Second Team
*2x NBA Three-Point Shootout Winner (2002–03)
Best Season - 03/04
24.2 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 2.1 apg, 1.3 spg
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
And you got the perfect picture of him wihtout me having to supply it -- bravo! 
Don't forget to PM whoever's next.
Don't forget to PM whoever's next.
Kings Faithful
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And you got the perfect picture of him wihtout me having to supply it -- bravo!
Don't forget to PM whoever's next.
With a picture like that on the internet who would choose anything else? Just look at that sexy chest hair...
Sorry for the delay. I'll have my pick up in just a few minutes...
This will probably come as a "who?" to some of you but I'm picking Forward Maurice Stokes.
Maurice Stokes played for the Royals from 1955-58. In three short years, he was selected to the All-Star team all three times. His career averages were impressive - 16.4 ppg, 17.3 rpg, and 5.3 apg. His numbers were even more impressive as he scored 3,315 points, grabbed 3,492 boards and dished 1,062 assists in just three seasons. You cannot help but wonder what he would have done had he not been struck with a debilitating injury.
Off the court he was soft-spoken, and wored horn-rimmed glasses. I've written about him before, as his number (12) hangs in the rafters at Arco:
I don't know how many of our newer fans know the story behind #12 and why his jersey was retired. Here's a story I think we may have posted a while back. I think it's worth sharing again. (You might want to have a Kleenex handy.)
http://espn.go.com/classic/biography...s_Maurice.html
Stokes' life a tale of tragedy and friendship
By Bob Carter
Special to ESPN.com
"To see the way he conducted himself, I just stood in awe of him. It got so bad, when I would be having a bad day myself, I would go to see Maurice, selfishly, to say, I want to get pumped up. And he never failed to pump me up," says Jack Twyman.
In the 1950s, his ability to beat opponents to rebounds with his muscular body, quickness and positioning was nearly unparalleled. He averaged more than 20 rebounds per game in college, more than 17 in the NBA. He passed well, too, good enough to be among the NBA's assist leaders, and averaged double figures in scoring.
Maurice Stokes was one of basketball's best forwards then, one of its least-known stars now. Stokes, 6-foot-7 and 240 pounds, wasn't around long enough to be remembered like many of his peers. In the final regular-season game of the 1957-58 season, his third year as a pro, the Cincinnati Royals all-star fell to the floor, hit his head and was knocked unconscious.
Three days later, the 24-year-old went into a coma and was permanently paralyzed, his career over. His life, however, wasn't over, thanks mostly to teammate Jack Twyman, who helped to raise money for his medical expenses and became his legal guardian. Twyman started an exhibition game in Stokes' honor and established the Maurice Stokes Foundation to defray hospital costs.
In 1973, three years after Stokes' death, his story was told in the film "Maurie," which starred former football player Bernie Casey. Though few of today's NBA stars know much about Stokes, mid-century players appreciated his game. Bobby Wanzer, who coached and played with him, said, "If things had worked out differently, Maurice would have become one of the top 10 players of all time."
Said Twyman: "No one had seen a guy with that combination of strength, speed and size."
Stokes, who was born on June 17, 1933 in Rankin, Pa., just outside Pittsburgh, and Twyman had connections early on. They were high school basketball contemporaries in Pittsburgh, and both showed late development on the court.
The Stokes family - Maurice, his parents, two brothers and twin sister - moved to the Homewood section of Pittsburgh when he was eight. At Westinghouse High School, Stokes was a two-year starter and the team won back-to-back city championships, but he often was overshadowed by teammates. Though he received 10 basketball scholarship offers, some college coaches thought he was too slow.
Twyman, during the same span, failed to make his Central Catholic High School team three times and played only one season before going on to the University of Cincinnati, where he turned into a superb shooter.
At St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa., Stokes became a small-college All-American. He averaged 23.3 points and 22.2 rebounds in his junior year as St. Francis went 22-9 and played in the National Invitation Tournament. As a senior, he led the Frankies to fourth place at the 1955 NIT, where he scored 43 points in a 79-73 overtime loss in the semifinals to Dayton and was named the tournament's MVP. In 1997, a media panel voted him to the all-time NIT team.
The NBA, Harlem Globetrotters and industrial teams pursued Stokes after his senior season. The Rochester Royals chose Stokes No. 2 overall in the 1955 NBA draft - after Milwaukee picked Dick Ricketts of Duquesne - and selected Twyman in the second round. Along with Niagara's Ed Fleming, the Royals' No. 3 pick who was a Westinghouse teammate of Stokes, they drove from Pittsburgh for their first pro training camp.
Stokes made an immediate impact, getting 32 points, 20 rebounds and eight assists in his NBA debut. He went on to average 16.8 points in 1955-56 and a league-best 16.3 rebounds, snatching a franchise-record 38 in one game, and was voted the NBA's Rookie of the Year.
"The first great, athletic power forward," Bob Cousy said years later. "He was Karl Malone with more finesse."
Twyman also became a rookie starter for the Royals and averaged 14.4 points and 6.5 rebounds.
In Stokes' second season, he set an NBA record by grabbing 1,256 rebounds (17.4 per game), ranked third in the league in assists with 331 (4.6 average) and scored 15.6 points a game.
The Royals moved to Cincinnati before the 1957-58 season, and Stokes finished second in rebounding average (18.1) to Bill Russell, third again in assists (6.4), behind only guards Cousy and Dick McGuire, and scored 16.9 points a game.
A 35-percent shooter in his three seasons, he averaged 16.4 points, 17.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists. Playing 37 minutes a contest in his 202-game career, he was named second-team all-league each year.
"Competitive, hard-nosed, tough," former NBA player and coach Gene Shue described Stokes in 1992. "He was a coach's dream."
The dream career ended tragically on March 12, 1958 in Minneapolis when Stokes drove to the basket against the Lakers, drew contact and fell awkwardly to the floor, hitting his head. Knocked out for several minutes, he was revived with smelling salts and returned to the game.
Three days later, the Royals lost their playoff opener at Detroit, and after a 12-point, 15-rebound performance, Stokes became ill on the team's flight back to Cincinnati. "I feel like I'm going to die," he told a teammate.
When the plane landed, he was taken to a nearby hospital in Covington, Ky., where he remained unconscious for weeks, a quadriplegic. He later was moved to a Cincinnati hospital, his home for six years.
Stokes' illness was first diagnosed as encephalitis. Soon, it was traced to the head injury he suffered against the Lakers. The final diagnosis: post-traumatic encephalopathy, a brain injury that damaged his motor control center.
When Stokes' family could not afford the medical bills, stepping up to take charge was Twyman, who lived in Cincinnati. "Things had to be done immediately," he said, "and no one was there to do them but me."
Twyman worked feverishly. He applied to become his friend's legal guardian and a judge granted the request, enabling Twyman to control Stokes' $9,000 bank account and pay some bills. He filed applications so that Stokes received work injury compensation, which helped with his hospitalization, care and medicine.
Later in 1958, Twyman worked to organize an exhibition doubleheader that raised $10,000 for Stokes' expenses. He handled Stokes' mail, including his bills. And though he had a family of his own, Twyman spent countless hours at the hospital with Stokes, who after regaining consciousness could not speak.
Twyman communicated by going through the alphabet, letter by letter, until Stokes, who was mentally alert, blinked in recognition. Slowly, the process spelled out words.
The brain injury had robbed Stokes of his speech, mobility and independence, but not his spirit. He took on a painful regimen of physical therapy, gradually gaining minimal movement in his limbs and joints. His body sweating, Stokes spent hours receiving treatment from therapists and eventually took small steps down the hospital hallway in braces, his large frame supported by nurses.
Though his body suffered spasms and his fingers didn't always go where he wanted, Stokes learned how to type again and how to paint. In a wheelchair, he accompanied Twyman to some of the annual exhibition games in his honor, an event kept alive by Milt Kutsher, who offered up his Catskills resort as a game site. Somehow, after accepting his situation, Stokes kept his sense of humor.
"Stokes lived as a symbol of the best that a man is, despite the terrible things which can happen to him," wrote New York Post columnist Milton Gross. "He was a beautiful man who believed that surrender was not the way, even though he couldn't walk, couldn't talk except agonizingly. And he laughed when he should have cried."
On April 6, 1970, Stokes died of a heart attack. At his request, he was buried at St. Francis. Maurice Stokes was 36.
In September 2004, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
This will probably come as a "who?" to some of you but I'm picking Forward Maurice Stokes.
Maurice Stokes played for the Royals from 1955-58. In three short years, he was selected to the All-Star team all three times. His career averages were impressive - 16.4 ppg, 17.3 rpg, and 5.3 apg. His numbers were even more impressive as he scored 3,315 points, grabbed 3,492 boards and dished 1,062 assists in just three seasons. You cannot help but wonder what he would have done had he not been struck with a debilitating injury.
Off the court he was soft-spoken, and wored horn-rimmed glasses. I've written about him before, as his number (12) hangs in the rafters at Arco:
I don't know how many of our newer fans know the story behind #12 and why his jersey was retired. Here's a story I think we may have posted a while back. I think it's worth sharing again. (You might want to have a Kleenex handy.)
http://espn.go.com/classic/biography...s_Maurice.html
Stokes' life a tale of tragedy and friendship
By Bob Carter
Special to ESPN.com
"To see the way he conducted himself, I just stood in awe of him. It got so bad, when I would be having a bad day myself, I would go to see Maurice, selfishly, to say, I want to get pumped up. And he never failed to pump me up," says Jack Twyman.
In the 1950s, his ability to beat opponents to rebounds with his muscular body, quickness and positioning was nearly unparalleled. He averaged more than 20 rebounds per game in college, more than 17 in the NBA. He passed well, too, good enough to be among the NBA's assist leaders, and averaged double figures in scoring.
Maurice Stokes was one of basketball's best forwards then, one of its least-known stars now. Stokes, 6-foot-7 and 240 pounds, wasn't around long enough to be remembered like many of his peers. In the final regular-season game of the 1957-58 season, his third year as a pro, the Cincinnati Royals all-star fell to the floor, hit his head and was knocked unconscious.
Three days later, the 24-year-old went into a coma and was permanently paralyzed, his career over. His life, however, wasn't over, thanks mostly to teammate Jack Twyman, who helped to raise money for his medical expenses and became his legal guardian. Twyman started an exhibition game in Stokes' honor and established the Maurice Stokes Foundation to defray hospital costs.
In 1973, three years after Stokes' death, his story was told in the film "Maurie," which starred former football player Bernie Casey. Though few of today's NBA stars know much about Stokes, mid-century players appreciated his game. Bobby Wanzer, who coached and played with him, said, "If things had worked out differently, Maurice would have become one of the top 10 players of all time."
Said Twyman: "No one had seen a guy with that combination of strength, speed and size."
Stokes, who was born on June 17, 1933 in Rankin, Pa., just outside Pittsburgh, and Twyman had connections early on. They were high school basketball contemporaries in Pittsburgh, and both showed late development on the court.
The Stokes family - Maurice, his parents, two brothers and twin sister - moved to the Homewood section of Pittsburgh when he was eight. At Westinghouse High School, Stokes was a two-year starter and the team won back-to-back city championships, but he often was overshadowed by teammates. Though he received 10 basketball scholarship offers, some college coaches thought he was too slow.
Twyman, during the same span, failed to make his Central Catholic High School team three times and played only one season before going on to the University of Cincinnati, where he turned into a superb shooter.
At St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa., Stokes became a small-college All-American. He averaged 23.3 points and 22.2 rebounds in his junior year as St. Francis went 22-9 and played in the National Invitation Tournament. As a senior, he led the Frankies to fourth place at the 1955 NIT, where he scored 43 points in a 79-73 overtime loss in the semifinals to Dayton and was named the tournament's MVP. In 1997, a media panel voted him to the all-time NIT team.
The NBA, Harlem Globetrotters and industrial teams pursued Stokes after his senior season. The Rochester Royals chose Stokes No. 2 overall in the 1955 NBA draft - after Milwaukee picked Dick Ricketts of Duquesne - and selected Twyman in the second round. Along with Niagara's Ed Fleming, the Royals' No. 3 pick who was a Westinghouse teammate of Stokes, they drove from Pittsburgh for their first pro training camp.
Stokes made an immediate impact, getting 32 points, 20 rebounds and eight assists in his NBA debut. He went on to average 16.8 points in 1955-56 and a league-best 16.3 rebounds, snatching a franchise-record 38 in one game, and was voted the NBA's Rookie of the Year.
"The first great, athletic power forward," Bob Cousy said years later. "He was Karl Malone with more finesse."
Twyman also became a rookie starter for the Royals and averaged 14.4 points and 6.5 rebounds.
In Stokes' second season, he set an NBA record by grabbing 1,256 rebounds (17.4 per game), ranked third in the league in assists with 331 (4.6 average) and scored 15.6 points a game.
The Royals moved to Cincinnati before the 1957-58 season, and Stokes finished second in rebounding average (18.1) to Bill Russell, third again in assists (6.4), behind only guards Cousy and Dick McGuire, and scored 16.9 points a game.
A 35-percent shooter in his three seasons, he averaged 16.4 points, 17.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists. Playing 37 minutes a contest in his 202-game career, he was named second-team all-league each year.
"Competitive, hard-nosed, tough," former NBA player and coach Gene Shue described Stokes in 1992. "He was a coach's dream."
The dream career ended tragically on March 12, 1958 in Minneapolis when Stokes drove to the basket against the Lakers, drew contact and fell awkwardly to the floor, hitting his head. Knocked out for several minutes, he was revived with smelling salts and returned to the game.
Three days later, the Royals lost their playoff opener at Detroit, and after a 12-point, 15-rebound performance, Stokes became ill on the team's flight back to Cincinnati. "I feel like I'm going to die," he told a teammate.
When the plane landed, he was taken to a nearby hospital in Covington, Ky., where he remained unconscious for weeks, a quadriplegic. He later was moved to a Cincinnati hospital, his home for six years.
Stokes' illness was first diagnosed as encephalitis. Soon, it was traced to the head injury he suffered against the Lakers. The final diagnosis: post-traumatic encephalopathy, a brain injury that damaged his motor control center.
When Stokes' family could not afford the medical bills, stepping up to take charge was Twyman, who lived in Cincinnati. "Things had to be done immediately," he said, "and no one was there to do them but me."
Twyman worked feverishly. He applied to become his friend's legal guardian and a judge granted the request, enabling Twyman to control Stokes' $9,000 bank account and pay some bills. He filed applications so that Stokes received work injury compensation, which helped with his hospitalization, care and medicine.
Later in 1958, Twyman worked to organize an exhibition doubleheader that raised $10,000 for Stokes' expenses. He handled Stokes' mail, including his bills. And though he had a family of his own, Twyman spent countless hours at the hospital with Stokes, who after regaining consciousness could not speak.
Twyman communicated by going through the alphabet, letter by letter, until Stokes, who was mentally alert, blinked in recognition. Slowly, the process spelled out words.
The brain injury had robbed Stokes of his speech, mobility and independence, but not his spirit. He took on a painful regimen of physical therapy, gradually gaining minimal movement in his limbs and joints. His body sweating, Stokes spent hours receiving treatment from therapists and eventually took small steps down the hospital hallway in braces, his large frame supported by nurses.
Though his body suffered spasms and his fingers didn't always go where he wanted, Stokes learned how to type again and how to paint. In a wheelchair, he accompanied Twyman to some of the annual exhibition games in his honor, an event kept alive by Milt Kutsher, who offered up his Catskills resort as a game site. Somehow, after accepting his situation, Stokes kept his sense of humor.
"Stokes lived as a symbol of the best that a man is, despite the terrible things which can happen to him," wrote New York Post columnist Milton Gross. "He was a beautiful man who believed that surrender was not the way, even though he couldn't walk, couldn't talk except agonizingly. And he laughed when he should have cried."
On April 6, 1970, Stokes died of a heart attack. At his request, he was buried at St. Francis. Maurice Stokes was 36.
In September 2004, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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GeraldWallace#3
Bench
Tracy McGrady
You know behind that poor sack of Tracy today their used to be a great player. Their is no doubt in my mind that in his prime he was up their in the top 5. Tracy McGrady would be a perfect sixth man spark plug to come of the bench. He can score with the best of them, he's got size, he is super clutch, and plus he has pure talent. Don't let the McGrady of today fool you. Just think back to his hay days when he owned the Orlando Magic.
7-time All-Star
7-time All-NBA Selection
2000–01 NBA Most Improved Player
2-time NBA Scoring Champion
Best Season
6.5 RPG/ 5.5 AST/ 1.6 SPG/ 32.1 PPG
You know behind that poor sack of Tracy today their used to be a great player. Their is no doubt in my mind that in his prime he was up their in the top 5. Tracy McGrady would be a perfect sixth man spark plug to come of the bench. He can score with the best of them, he's got size, he is super clutch, and plus he has pure talent. Don't let the McGrady of today fool you. Just think back to his hay days when he owned the Orlando Magic.
7-time All-Star
7-time All-NBA Selection
2000–01 NBA Most Improved Player
2-time NBA Scoring Champion
Best Season
6.5 RPG/ 5.5 AST/ 1.6 SPG/ 32.1 PPG
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vikinginferno
Starter
Yeah he was on my list also, the one I gave to Jespher. 
AleksandarN
Starter
Penny Hardaway PG/SG
Before his injuries he was incredible. I think a better version of Dwade. Good at defense aswell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfernee_Hardaway
Before his injuries he was incredible. I think a better version of Dwade. Good at defense aswell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfernee_Hardaway
bdouble013
Bench
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
vikinginferno
Starter
Are you serious!? My next 2 picks stolen just like that!
GeraldWallace#3
Bench
Jerry Lucas
Wasn't particulary tall or athletic, but you will find this guy at the top af any rebounding list. Renowned for his mental dexterity, "Luke" had a sixth sense for rebounding. He studied angles and knew where the ball would carom based on the location of the shooter. He was maniacal, once saying he'd rather rebound than eat. He was also a great scorer.
Best Season
21.1RPG/ 2.7 AST/ 21.5 PPG
Wasn't particulary tall or athletic, but you will find this guy at the top af any rebounding list. Renowned for his mental dexterity, "Luke" had a sixth sense for rebounding. He studied angles and knew where the ball would carom based on the location of the shooter. He was maniacal, once saying he'd rather rebound than eat. He was also a great scorer.
Best Season
21.1RPG/ 2.7 AST/ 21.5 PPG
AleksandarN
Starter
I need more athletism so I will pick a young Shawn Kemp.
Reign Man Shaun Kemp PF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Kemp
Reign Man Shaun Kemp PF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Kemp
Kings Faithful
Starter
O man...I think I just might have got a steal... Kevin Durant
Best Season 08/09
25.3 PPG, 6.5 RPG, 2.8 APG, 1.3 SPG, FG% .476
Averaging these kind of numbers in only his second season is insane... As Kings fans we've seen him light us up and when he is on fire...he is literally unstoppable. This kid is only to get better and better. He would probably be averaging 30+ ppg if he had a pass first point guard, like like Steve Nash or Jason Kidd to match up with him.
Best Season 08/09
25.3 PPG, 6.5 RPG, 2.8 APG, 1.3 SPG, FG% .476
Averaging these kind of numbers in only his second season is insane... As Kings fans we've seen him light us up and when he is on fire...he is literally unstoppable. This kid is only to get better and better. He would probably be averaging 30+ ppg if he had a pass first point guard, like like Steve Nash or Jason Kidd to match up with him.
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Kings Faithful
Starter
This is how I'm setting up my team for now SLAB
1: Julius Erving --- SF
2: Patrick Ewing --- C
3: Deron Williams --- PG
4: Josh Smith --- PF
5: Nate "The Great" Thurmond --- PF
6: Pat Riley --- Head Coach
7: Peja Stojakovic --- SF
8: Kevin Durant --- SG
1: Julius Erving --- SF
2: Patrick Ewing --- C
3: Deron Williams --- PG
4: Josh Smith --- PF
5: Nate "The Great" Thurmond --- PF
6: Pat Riley --- Head Coach
7: Peja Stojakovic --- SF
8: Kevin Durant --- SG
vikinginferno
Starter
Kevin Durant isn't really a shooting guard. I would say Peja could move more easily to that position. But you've got 3 SFs on your team, maybe four counting Josh Smith.
venom_7
Starter
Kevin Durant isn't really a shooting guard. I would say Peja could move more easily to that position. But you've got 3 SFs on your team, maybe four counting Josh Smith.
Yeah, but he can do whatever he wants. If it works in the description, he can probably get some votes!
Someone actually guessed my next pick (in a PM), so I'll just confirm it...
F/G Jack Twyman
When you look up into the rafters in Arco, you'll also see Jack Twyman's #27 there.
John Kennedy “Jack” Twyman (born May 11, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a former professional basketball player.
A 6' 6" forward guard from the University of Cincinnati, he spent eleven seasons (1955-1966) in the NBA as a member of the Rochester/Cincinnati Royals franchise (now the Sacramento Kings). Along with Wilt Chamberlain, Twyman became the first NBA player to average more than 30 points per game in a single season when he averaged 31.2 points per game during the 1959-60 season. He scored 15,840 points in his career, was named to the All-NBA Second Team in 1960 and 1962, and appeared in six NBA All-Star Games.
Twyman was also known for his humanitarian efforts. He became the legal guardian of his teammate Maurice Stokes, who was paralyzed during the final game of the 1958 season, to help with medical finances. Twyman also organized the NBA's Maurice Stokes Memorial Basketball Game, held at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, New York, to raise funds for needy former players from the game's early years - first to raise funds for Stokes' care and after his death, for other players.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Twyman served as analyst for The NBA on ABC, working alongside Chris Schenkel, including the NBA Finals.
One of Twyman's most dramatic moments as a sportscaster came during the moments preceding Game 7 of the 1970 championship series between the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers. Doing the pre-game segment with Schenkel, Twyman suddenly looked to their left and noticed the injured Willis Reed (whose status for the clincher had been doubtful) advancing from the tunnel toward the Madison Square Garden court. Interrupting his own train of thought, he told Schenkel and the viewers:
"I think we see Willis coming out."
The sight of Reed marching toward the basketball floor in his warmups helped inspire the Knicks to their 113-99 victory that gave New York its first NBA world title.
Twyman was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983.
http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Jack_Twyman
F/G Jack Twyman
When you look up into the rafters in Arco, you'll also see Jack Twyman's #27 there.
John Kennedy “Jack” Twyman (born May 11, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a former professional basketball player.
A 6' 6" forward guard from the University of Cincinnati, he spent eleven seasons (1955-1966) in the NBA as a member of the Rochester/Cincinnati Royals franchise (now the Sacramento Kings). Along with Wilt Chamberlain, Twyman became the first NBA player to average more than 30 points per game in a single season when he averaged 31.2 points per game during the 1959-60 season. He scored 15,840 points in his career, was named to the All-NBA Second Team in 1960 and 1962, and appeared in six NBA All-Star Games.
Twyman was also known for his humanitarian efforts. He became the legal guardian of his teammate Maurice Stokes, who was paralyzed during the final game of the 1958 season, to help with medical finances. Twyman also organized the NBA's Maurice Stokes Memorial Basketball Game, held at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, New York, to raise funds for needy former players from the game's early years - first to raise funds for Stokes' care and after his death, for other players.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Twyman served as analyst for The NBA on ABC, working alongside Chris Schenkel, including the NBA Finals.
One of Twyman's most dramatic moments as a sportscaster came during the moments preceding Game 7 of the 1970 championship series between the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers. Doing the pre-game segment with Schenkel, Twyman suddenly looked to their left and noticed the injured Willis Reed (whose status for the clincher had been doubtful) advancing from the tunnel toward the Madison Square Garden court. Interrupting his own train of thought, he told Schenkel and the viewers:
"I think we see Willis coming out."
The sight of Reed marching toward the basketball floor in his warmups helped inspire the Knicks to their 113-99 victory that gave New York its first NBA world title.
Twyman was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983.
http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Jack_Twyman
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vikinginferno
Starter
Yeah I know. I'm just letting him know that some people would think Kevin Durant couldn't play shooting guard nearly as well as small forward. I mean he is 6 foot 9. I was thinking of taking him, good pick.
Kings Faithful
Starter
Yeah I know. I'm just letting him know that some people would think Kevin Durant couldn't play shooting guard nearly as well as small forward. I mean he is 6 foot 9. I was thinking of taking him, good pick.
Yeah I know... I just couldn't let him pass... NBA.com lists him as "foward - guard" so I assumed It would be ok to play him at SG. I'm considering switching Julius to SG and putting Durant at SF... that would probably make more sense.
SacKings7
Starter
It's your team dude. You can start Williams at C if you want to.
kingsnation
All-Star
Someone actually guessed my next pick (in a PM), so I'll just confirm it...
F/G Jack Twyman
When you look up into the rafters in Arco, you'll also see Jack Twyman's #27 there.
John Kennedy “Jack” Twyman (born May 11, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a former professional basketball player.
A 6' 6" forward guard from the University of Cincinnati, he spent eleven seasons (1955-1966) in the NBA as a member of the Rochester/Cincinnati Royals franchise (now the Sacramento Kings). Along with Wilt Chamberlain, Twyman became the first NBA player to average more than 30 points per game in a single season when he averaged 31.2 points per game during the 1959-60 season. He scored 15,840 points in his career, was named to the All-NBA Second Team in 1960 and 1962, and appeared in six NBA All-Star Games.
Twyman was also known for his humanitarian efforts. He became the legal guardian of his teammate Maurice Stokes, who was paralyzed during the final game of the 1958 season, to help with medical finances. Twyman also organized the NBA's Maurice Stokes Memorial Basketball Game, held at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, New York, to raise funds for needy former players from the game's early years - first to raise funds for Stokes' care and after his death, for other players.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Twyman served as analyst for The NBA on ABC, working alongside Chris Schenkel, including the NBA Finals.
One of Twyman's most dramatic moments as a sportscaster came during the moments preceding Game 7 of the 1970 championship series between the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers. Doing the pre-game segment with Schenkel, Twyman suddenly looked to their left and noticed the injured Willis Reed (whose status for the clincher had been doubtful) advancing from the tunnel toward the Madison Square Garden court. Interrupting his own train of thought, he told Schenkel and the viewers:
"I think we see Willis coming out."
The sight of Reed marching toward the basketball floor in his warmups helped inspire the Knicks to their 113-99 victory that gave New York its first NBA world title.
Twyman was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983.
http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Jack_Twyman
Great pick.
kingsnation
All-Star
I have my next 2 picks!! Hopefully they will still be on the board by the time I pick again!
kingsnation
All-Star
You never know, there seems to be at least a few different directions people are taking their teams right now.
LoungeLizard
Starter
Time to add some nastiness to my squad. A guy who will make your guy think twice about coming down the lane. The "baddest bad boy"
Rick Mahorn F
Rick Mahorn F
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