Hawes picks #31

[VF21]

Spencer Hawes will wear #31. Not that this is necessarily the biggest news of the year or necessarily worthy of its own thread, but I couldn't think of anywhere else to post it.

Previous Kings to wear #31 are:

Duane Causwell, Dick Gibbs, Conner Henry, Joe McBride, Larry McNeill, Scot Pollard, Jamal Sampson, Jack Twyman and Richard Washington.

 

[BMiller52]

Did he say its because he's a Pollard fan?

 

[ParniValjak]

Did he say its because he's a Pollard fan?

No! Its because #10 and #32 are taken to he is going back to his AAU number!

Good luck to the kid and I hope he plays with as much heart and hustle as Pollard did for us!

 

[BRad1055]

I heard that Hawes was on the same highschool team as Martell Webster of Portland and that Hawes and Kevin Durant are real good friends. They both played AAU ball together.

 

[kennadog]

Spencer Hawes will wear #31. Not that this is necessarily the biggest news of the year or necessarily worthy of its own thread, but I couldn't think of anywhere else to post it.

Previous Kings to wear #31 are:

Duane Causwell, Dick Gibbs, Conner Henry, Joe McBride, Larry McNeill, Scot Pollard, Jamal Sampson, Jack Twyman and Richard Washington.

Confused me, since I know Twyman's jersey hangs in Arco as retired. It's number 27 that is retired. Maybe Twyman wore #31 earlier with the team?

 

[VF21]

Twyman wore #31 in 62-66. Before that, he wore #27. In 1960 he was wearing #27 when he scored 59 points in one game, a record that still stands today. I'm guessing that's why they retired the #27.

BTW? Twyman spent his entire 11-year career with the Royals/Kings franchise.

 

[kennadog]

TY. I knew he spent his whole career with the franchise. Sounds like a great guy, too, to be such a great friend to Stokes. Impressive player and even a more impressive human being.

 

[vytzka]

I'd rather he picked #21 for the obvious comparisons


Welcome to the Kings, #31 Spencer Hawes, I hope we'll go a long way together.

 

[Warhawk]

Too bad he took Scotty's #, we could have brought him back as a free agent and had some real bangin' going on in the paint.

I kid, I kid.

 

[Vlade4GM]

Awesome choice! It fits him.

 

[VF21]

I'd rather he picked #21 for the obvious comparisons


Welcome to the Kings, #31 Spencer Hawes, I hope we'll go a long way together.

I personally am very glad he DIDN'T pick #21. I don't want to see that number in Arco again until it's in the rafters.

But I digress...

 

[uptempo-kings]

# 31 seems to be a little weird looking for a big, more like for guards and sf's but hey it could work.

 

[vytzka]

# 31 seems to be a little weird looking for a big, more like for guards and sf's but hey it could work.

Well, Marion is... big... sort of

 

[Bricklayer]

# 31 seems to be a little weird looking for a big, more like for guards and sf's but hey it could work.

Well if you take a look at the former Kings to wear the number, a lot of them were bigs themselves (in fact I'm rather not sure you'd want to associate yourself wiht Duane Causewell as a Kings center, but hey, guess you can at least have the number all to yourself.