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1968 NBA All-Star Game
The 1968 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game which was played at Madison Square Garden in New York City, January 23, 1968. *Coaches: East: Alex Hannum, West: Bill Sharman. *Officials: Mendy Rudolph and Don Murphy *MVP: Hal Greer *Attendance: 18,422 Teams Western Division Eastern Division Score by periods References * * NBA All-Star Game All-Star NBA All-Star Game NBA All-Star Game The National Basketball Association All-Star Game is the annual all-star game hosted each February by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and showcases 24 of the league's All-star, star players. Since 2022, it was held on the third Sunday of ... Sports in Manhattan Basketball competitions in New York City 1960s in Manhattan {{NYC-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Division (NBA)
The Western Division was a division in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its forerunner, the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The division was created at the start of the 1946–47 BAA season, when the league was created, and was then kept as one of the divisions when BAA merged with the National Basketball League (NBL) to create the NBA on August 3, 1949. The division existed until the 1970–71 NBA season when the NBA expanded from 14 to 17 teams and realigned into the Eastern and Western conferences with two divisions each. Teams ;Notes * * denotes an expansion team. * denotes a team that merged from the National Basketball League (NBL) Team timeline DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1150 height:auto barincrement:25 Period = from:1946 till:1970 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:60 left:20 bottom:20 top:0 Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData = ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelmo Beaty
Zelmo "Big Z" Beaty ( ; October 25, 1939 – August 27, 2013) was an American basketball player. He played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and four in the rival American Basketball Association (ABA). A three-time ABA All-Star and two-time NBA All-Star, Beaty was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 2016. Early life High school Zelmo Beaty Jr. was born on October 25, 1939, in Hillister, Texas, a small town of 250. Beatty's father died when he was a child. He attended the segregated Scott High School in Woodville, Texas, and played for coach John Payton, winning back-to-back Prairie View Interscholastic League 1A state championships in 1957 and 1958. College Beaty attended Prairie View A&M University, a small National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) school outside of Houston, Texas. "From 1958–1962 at Prairie View A&M Beaty averaged 25 points and 20 rebounds per game and was a two-time first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilt Chamberlain
Wilton Norman Chamberlain ( ; August21, 1936 – October12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player. Standing tall, he played Center (basketball), center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 14 seasons. He was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978, and was elected to the NBA's NBA 35th Anniversary Team, 35th, 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, 50th, and NBA 75th Anniversary Team, 75th anniversary teams. According to former teammate Billy Cunningham, "The NBA Guide reads like Wilt's personal diary." Chamberlain holds List of career achievements by Wilt Chamberlain, 72 NBA records, including several NBA regular season records, regular season records in Point (basketball), scoring, Rebound (basketball), rebounding, and Minute (basketball), durability; Block (basketball), blocks were not counted during his career. He is best remembered as the only player to score Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game, 100 points in a single game. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis Reed
Willis Reed Jr. (June 25, 1942 – March 21, 2023) was an American professional basketball player, coach, and general manager. He spent his entire ten-year pro playing career (1964–1974) with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Reed was a seven-time NBA All-Star and five-time All-NBA selection, including once on the first team in 1970, when he was named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was a two-time NBA champion (1970, 1973) and was voted the NBA Finals MVP both times. In 1982, Reed was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was named to both the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams. After retiring as a player, Reed served as assistant and head coach with several teams for nearly a decade, then was promoted to general manager and vice president of basketball operations (1989–1996) for the New Jersey Nets. As senior vice president of basketball operations, he helped to lead them to the NBA Finals in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nate Thurmond
Nathaniel Thurmond (July 25, 1941 – July 16, 2016) was an American professional basketball player who spent the majority of his 14-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Golden State Warriors franchise. He played the center and power forward positions. Thurmond was a seven-time All-Star and the first player in NBA history to record an official quadruple-double. In 1965, he grabbed 42 rebounds in a game; only Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell recorded more rebounds in an NBA game. Thurmond was named a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985, one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, and part of the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021. Known to fans as "Nate the Great", Thurmond has had his No. 42 jersey retired by both the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Early life and college Thurmond started at Akron's Central High School, where he played alongside fellow future NBA star Gus Johnson. Passing up a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim King (basketball, Born 1941)
James Staton "Country" King (born February 7, 1941) is an American retired professional basketball player and former college coach. A 6'2" guard from the University of Tulsa, King was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round of the 1963 NBA draft. King played 10 NBA seasons (1963–1973) with four teams: the Lakers, the San Francisco Warriors, the Cincinnati Royals, and the Chicago Bulls. He represented the Warriors in the 1968 NBA All-Star Game, and he retired with 4,377 career points. King later coached the Tulsa Golden Hurricane from 1975 to midway through the 1979–1980 season, when he resigned after seasons. The school retired his jersey number 24, and in 1984, he was inducted into the University of Tulsa Hall of Fame. NBA career In Los Angeles, King played much of his first three seasons behind former UCLA teammates Gail Goodrich and Walt Hazzard, after which the Lakers left him unprotected in the expansion draft. No sooner were he and Jeff Mullins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Kojis
Donald R. Kojis (January 15, 1939 – November 19, 2021) was an American professional basketball player who played twelve seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Kojis is credited as involved in the creation or advancement of the alley-oop dunk. Early life Kojis was born on July 15, 1939, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended Notre Dame High School in Milwaukee, where he was a standout basketball player. He scored 48 points in one January 1957 game. In 1957, he was named by the Associated Press (AP) to its All-Wisconsin high school basketball team. College basketball Kojis attended Marquette University from 1958 to 1961, where he was a two-time All American. Although only 6 ft 5 in, Kojis was often tasked with playing center on Marquette's small-sized team. Kojis also had tremendous leaping ability. Basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain would later say Kojis was "'the most jumping white boy I've ever seen.'" Kojis led the team in rebounding in the 1959-60 season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Clark (basketball)
Archie L. Clark (born July 15, 1941) is an American former professional basketball player. At 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), he played guard for five National Basketball Association (NBA) teams. He has been called the father of the crossover dribble. Early life Clark was born on July 15, 1941 in Conway, Arkansas, the fourth of 12 children. He grew up in Ecorse, a suburb of Detroit, where he went to high school. He did not start playing basketball until 10th grade, and excelled in both basketball and baseball. On graduating high school, he was unable to find work during a recession, and joined the United States Army, where he served three years. Just 10 days after joining the Army, the Detroit Tigers baseball team belatedly invited him to spring training. Clark was assigned to a United States Air Force unit at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where he played intramural basketball, on a team coached by Buzz Bennett. Bennett had played basketball at the University of Minnesota, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde Lee
Clyde Wayne Lee (born March 14, 1944) is an American former professional basketball player who had his most success as an All-American center at Vanderbilt University, where the two-time Southeastern Conference (SEC) Player of the Year was among the most heralded players in school history. He was the No. 3 overall pick in the 1965 NBA draft and a one-time NBA All-Star, playing ten seasons in the league. Early life Lee was born on March 14, 1944, in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended high school at David Lipscomb Campus School from 1961-63 (now Lipscomb Academy). He is considered one of the greatest high school basketball players in Nashville history. College career A lanky 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) power forward/ center, Lee went on to star at Vanderbilt under coach Roy Skinner for three seasons (1963–66). While there, he was active in the Fellowship for Christian Athletes. Known for his rebounding skills and scoring prowess around the basket, Lee made an immediate impact as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Boozer
Robert Louis Boozer (April 26, 1937 – May 19, 2012) was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Boozer won a gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics and won an NBA Championship as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks in 1971. Boozer was a member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team, which was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a unit in 2010. Early years Boozer was born to John and Viola Boozer on April 26, 1937, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His family moved to Omaha, Nebraska in the 1940s, after his father's employer (the University of Alabama) had repeatedly denied him pay raises and passed him over for promotion. Boozer remembered taking the trains to move to Omaha. It has also been reported that the family moved from Tuscaloosa to Omaha when Boozer was seven years old, where his father worked in a meat packing plant and his mother as a hotel maid in Omaha. It has also been stated he was born on the same date in North Omah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy LaRusso
Rudolph A. LaRusso (November 11, 1937 – July 9, 2004) was an American professional basketball player who was a five-time All-Star in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was nicknamed "Roughhouse Rudy." Early life LaRusso was Jewish, and was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn. LaRusso, whose mother was Jewish and father was Italian, won All-City honors and was later inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. He attended and graduated from Dartmouth College. In 1959, playing for Dartmouth, he grabbed 32 rebounds in a game against Columbia, tying an Ivy League record. He also set Dartmouth records for rebounds in a season (503) and career (1,239), and was twice named All-Ivy League. Professional career Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers (1960–1967) He was taken by the Minneapolis Lakers in the second round of the 1959 NBA draft out of Dartmouth College, and played eight years with them and two for the San Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Hazzard
Mahdi Abdul-Rahman (born Walter Raphael Hazzard Jr.; April 15, 1942 – November 18, 2011) was an American professional basketball player and college basketball coach. He played in college for the UCLA Bruins and was a member of their first national championship team in 1964. He also won a gold medal that year with the US national team at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Hazzard began his pro career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Los Angeles Lakers, who selected him a territorial pick in the 1964 NBA draft. He was named an NBA All-Star with the Seattle SuperSonics in 1968. After his playing career ended, he was the head coach at UCLA during the 1980s. College career Hazzard attended Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, where his teams went 89–3 and he was named the city's player of the year when he was a senior. Hazzard went on to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became a key player on the Bruins varsity basketball team. In Hazzard's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
