Vs: Topikki kaikelle turhalle 2
Brian Cronin aloitti erilaisten "legendojen" todenperäisyyden tutkimisen "
Comics Should Be Good"-sivuston "
Comic Book Legends Revealed"-sarjassa. Sittemmin tuo menestynyt blogi poiki
kirjasopimuksen (niin kuin nykyään taitaa olla tapana) ja innoitti miekkosen yrittämään myös uusia aluevaltauksia.
Seuraavassa osoitteessa on listattu ja testattu mitä moninaisimpia koripalloon liittyviä taruja ja huhuja:
http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/05/06/basketball-legends-history/
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Basketball Legends History
Here are quick descriptions of each of the previous editions of Basketball Legends Revealed.
To see if they are true or false, you have to click on the link!
#1 - Danny Ainge once bit Tree Rollins during a playoff game.
Jim Thorpe played professional basketball.
Chuck Connors was once punished in a peculiar fashion for his reaction to a tough loss against the St. Louis Bombers.
#2 - The Celtics were once forced to play a game at midnight due to the Ice Capades!
The Celtics swapped the Ice Capades for future Celtic legend, Bill Russell.
An owner accidentally backed his way into the NBA due to another team refusing to have an exhibition with him.
#3 - The NCAA co-owns the trademark “March Madness” even though the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) had been using the term for decades before the NCAA began using it.
A NCAA game once ended with a team playing 1-on-5!
Everett Case created the ACC Tournament.
#4 - Michael Jordan was cut by his high school basketball team.
There was a quota in the NBA in the 50s and early 60s of how many black players could be on a team.
The Harlem Globetrotters began in Chicago!!
#5 - Larry Bird played a game where he shot all of his shots left-handed.
Del Harris once set a pick on Michael Adams during a game!
Dave Cowens once took a break from the Celtics during the season to drive a cab.
#6 - When he was 25, Pete Maravich correctly identified when he would retire and when he would die.
Bill Laimbeer played a Sleestak on the children’s television show Land of the Lost.
Future NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue was Georgetown’s career leader in total rebounds and rebounds per game when he graduated.
#7 - A failed basketball league coup ended up with the Lakers adding George Mikan to their roster (and also perhaps helping to form the NBA).
Michael Jordan bought a fancy team bus for his minor league baseball team to ride around in.
A convicted man asked for his sentence to be INCREASED to honor his favorite baseball player.
#8 - Wilt Chamberlain had an infamously poor reaction to his coach’s invention of morning shootarounds.
Wilt Chamberlain is in the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
A game against Wilt Chamberlain helped convince a college star not to play in the NBA.
#9 - The “Larry Bird exception” to the NBA salary cap got its name from the Celtics being the first team to go over the salary cap to re-sign one of their players, namely Larry Bird.
While in the NBA, Dave Bing went to work for the same bank that denied him a mortgage for a house.
An NBA player tried to get a triple double though a somewhat…odd fashion.
#10 - Los Angeles Clippers guard Eric Gordon played Michael Jordan’s son in the film Space Jam.
A 2001 game between Michigan State and the University of Virginia was canceled due to a bizarre situation with the floor of the court.
There was an amusing ending to the first NBA game ever to be replayed - the so-called “Phantom Buzzer” game.
Ta da![/quote]
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