2020年12月12日 · 1) Pettit was the 3rd huge star in NBA history, after George Mikan ('49-54) and Bob Cousy ('50-63). For as famously dominant as Mikan was, Pettit entered the league the year after Mikan retired at 29 (still in his prime) and put up superior numbers immediately (Mikan in '54: 18 ppg, 14 rpg, .380 FG% -- rookie Pettit in '55: 20 ppg, 14 rpg, .407 FG%, plus more assists …

2020年12月10日 · Bob Pettit was a superstar. With career averages of 26 PPG and 16 RPG, Pettit was one of the rare stars able to compete with the two giants of Russel & Wilt in their prime. He even managed to make every single memorial group the NBA has ever released, being a member of the 25, 35, and 50 year anniversary announcements.

Bob Pettit played in a league that wasn’t even ten years old his rookie season. Willie Mays played in a league that was founded less than a dozen years after the Civil War ended. So it looks like Pettit is almost as far back as you can go with basketball (which isn’t remotely true, just from an NBA standpoint), while the history before Mays ...

2015年5月22日 · (Pettit had three go-to moves: a don’t-leave-me-alone 18-footer, a leaning jumper coming off screens and a reliable turnaround that Bob Ryan once called “monotonous.” He couldn’t dunk unless a donut and coffee were involved. Tom Heinsohn once described Pettit’s cagey offensive game by calling him “the master of the half-inch.”

2022年8月9日 · How did Bob Pettit win the first, Official NBA MVP? He led the Hawks to a 33-39 Record (2nd Worst in the NBA). I know the prescedent set by the NBL didn’t exactly value winning as much as the award does today, and I don’t know enough about MLB, NHL, or NFL History to understand the prescedent that they’d set affected the outcome.

A reigning MVP has only lost by this many points once before, in 1956 when Bob Pettit's St. Louis Hawks lost by 58 to the Minneapolis Lakers in a best-of-3 series. Funnily enough, they won the other two games of that series by 1 point each, so the Hawks won the series with a …

Jerry West played for 14 season from 1960-1974, Bob Pettit played for 11 seasons from 1954-1965, and Paul Arizin played for 10 seasons from 1950-1962 (with a 2 year hiatus fighting in the Korean War). Yao Ming played in just 8 seasons and has 8 all-star selections.

December 12, 1932: Bob Pettit was born. One of the Big Three in the history of LSU Basketball, Pettit would be an NBA All-Star all 11 seasons he played, a 2-time MVP, and win a ring with the St. Louis Hawks. His #9 hangs in Atlanta's rafters and his #50 in Baton Rouge's.

2022年1月7日 · Yep. Harden has led the NBA in offensive win shares three times. Pippen has never been higher than 13th in a single season and only has been in the top 20 three times.

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