Mr Fat Hat

Mr Fat Hat

Michael Jordan Autographed 1986 Fleer Rookie Card

Oscar Daniel Schmidt: Mão Santa

Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt  – Nicknamed;  Mão Santa (Holy Hand) Must watch: ‘Only Live For The Love of The Game’, Oscar Schmidt Hall of Fame Speech.  It was a good life.  Listen carefully, filter through his  English as his 4th…

Joe Barry Reads For Success

Joe Barry Carroll Read Books Before Every Game Title: The Big Man With His Nose In A Book   In the summer of 1979 on the campus of Purdue University Joe Barry Carroll ran me over on the basketball court…

Hugo the Hustler

It is no longer an anomaly to watch a 19 year old young man play in the NBA.  However,  this one is from Spain and that is unusual.  The Boston Celtics seem to have found another young rookie in the…

The ‘Dean’ of Basketball

Michael Jordan and Dean Smith

Dean Edwards Smith   (February 28, 1931 – February 7, 2015)     was an American men’s college basketball head coach. Called a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame, he coached for 36 years at the University of…

Kon: The New NBA Phenom

Kon Knueppel

Are you watching this? Probably not.  Unless you attend Hornet’s basketball games, or, well, I don’t know, your NBA basketball consumption includes a team not often shown on TV.   It’s not on the nightly dunk highlights.  It is even difficult…

Spurs: Videos of A Dynasty

Spurs Logo, San Antonio Spurs

San Antonio Spurs Historic Series42 Youtube Videos  The Ring of the Rowel: San Antonio Spurs Docuseries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOmBV4js_Ehttps://youtu.be/W721d2BBG-Y?si=Nzv11NcFfaSL7BR7https://youtu.be/PGuktSrhwGQ?si=bGUyucKzAZopjtqOhttps://youtu.be/uR4iy84Plfc?si=9i8lTZ2LzFoCn_nRhttps://youtu.be/7XIike3cj9M?si=lKr_QR4pMRlRYJBo

Tarzan Cooper

Charles 'Tarzan' Cooper

Charles Theodore “Tarzan” Cooper (August 30, 1907 – December 19, 1980) was an American professional basketball player and coach who is enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He is best known for his time with the all-Black professional New York Renaissance.[1] Career After playing…

Chuck Cooper

Chuck Cooper

Charles Henry Cooper (September 29, 1926 – February 5, 1984) was an American professional basketball player. NBA career The 1953–54 Boston Celtics basketball team practicing the pick and roll. From left to rightː Bob Donham, Ed Mikan, Bill Sharman and Chuck Cooper.    …

Harry Buck Lou

Harry 'Bucky' Lew

Harry Buck Lew Harry Haskell “Bucky” Lew  (January 4, 1884 – October 22, 1963) Bucky Lew was an American basketball player, who is known as the first black professional basketball player. Biography Harry “Bucky” Lew was born in the Pawtucketville section of…

Moses Parted The Sea

God told Moses to Move A Mountain.  Scripture tells us, God told Moses to ‘Part The Red Sea’ as the Jewish Nation fled captivity in Egypt.  But  did God ordain Moses Eugene Malone to move mountains in the game of…