there are two records in basketball that i believe will never be broken, never. they say recorde are made to be broken. not these two. they are: 50 points and 20 plus rebounds a game for a whole season and the second is a triple double every game for the whole season, that is just stupid! these records took place in the nba. got anymore?
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by the way, those records were made by wilt the stilt chamberlain and the big O oscar robertson when he played for the cinncinati royals. that's back there,baby!
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need your help on this one, any body know how many rings bill russell has? another possible record. hoop historians should know this one.
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Without googling or looking online, I'm gonna guess Russell has 11. I thought I remember hearing that somewhere.
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Ed other than Helenas, where is a top place to go eat lunch at?
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11 it is, pretty good ed! thats a ring for every finger and one toe! hf, you keep bringing up helenas and i'm going to break the record from hilo to helenas which quite possibly,will also never be broken!
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Bill Russell won 11 championships in his 13-year NBA career with the Boston Celtics (1956-69). In his last three seasons, he was the player-coach and won two NBA titles.
Russell was a five-time league MVP and 12-time all-star. He is one of only two players in NBA history to grab 50 rebounds in a game. Wilt Chamberlain is the other one.
Russell was a star player at McClymonds High School in Oakland, Calif. Chamberlain was a brilliant prep star at Overbrook High in Philadelphia. He went on to star in basketball and track at the University of Kansas, before going on to a superstar career in the NBA, winning two NBA titles (one with the 76ers, the other with the Lakers). He also spent some time playing with the Harlem Globetrotters.
To some basketball historians, Wilt was the greatest big man to ever play the game, an amazing 7-foot athlete who excelled in many areas, especially in scoring points. Like was mentioned, one season he scored more than 50 points per game. He also scored 100 points in a game, still an NBA record. In another season, later in his career, he led the NBA in assists. He also never fouled out of an NBA game.
His duels with Russell over the years were legendary and Russell's balanced Celtics almost always beat Wilt's teams. If Wilt played in the NBA today, he would be considered the most dominant player in the league and would probably win more titles than he did playing back in the day.
Russell also won two NCAA championships at USF (1955-56) and played on the great 1956 U.S. Olympic team that claimed gold in the Melbourne Games.
Up until the original Dream Team with Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, that 1956 team was considered the greatest Olympic basketball team.
Finally on a Hawaii note, former UH-Hilo guard Alan Tanabe scored 31 points in a record-setting 164-111 loss to nationally ranked UNLV during the 1974-75 season. The game was held at packed Hilo Civic.
Tanabe played one season at UH-Hilo, then went on to finish his career at Hawaii Pacific University, leaving that school as its alltime leading scorer.
In many fans' opinion, Tanabe is the best high school player to ever come from a Big Island school -- he played under Al Manliguis at Hilo High in the early 1970s -- and go on to play at the college level.
A previous post said Tanabe had 44 points against UNLV, which is inaccurate.
I've seen many, many players from Hawaii over the years and in my opinion, Tanabe is the best I've seen or played against.
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alan was in montana to play a game. the security guard wouldnt let a.t. in. thought he was trying to sneak in. alan fouled out in the second half after splashing them for 30 plus points and got a standing ovation from the home crowd! remember a.t. and boyd batts battling it out in the ncaa summer league for the scoring title. a.t. averaged 40 plus a game for years, thats stupid! talked to him and he appreciated the fact the someone back home in hilo was keeping tabs on him and i did! one of his biggest fans! hi-low, great post as always. grew up a few blocks away from usf where russell played college, mean!
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in 1961-62, the big dipper avg.50.4ppg and 25.7rebounds per game. scored 4,029 reg. season pts! first and only player in nba history to break the 4,000pt. barrier! putting it in perspective, the only other player to score over 3,000pts. in a single season was michael back in the 86-87 season with 3,041pts! the big dipper was the only player in nba history to avg. 40 and 50pts. a game! maybe, and i mean MAYBE, someday, someone might come along and bust 40ppg. but 50??? putting this in perspective, it would be like us watching kobe or lebron score 50 every night! would you go out of your way to watch a player in the nba or college score 50pts. a night?
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1961-62 nba season was special.besides wilt's record, the big o averaged 30.8 ppg. 12.5 rebounds and 11.4 assists a game, for the WHOLE SEASON! from that year thru 1965, oscar's cumulative career averages WERE a triple-double! he recorded 41 triple-doubles that season which remains the record till this day. and guess who's second with 31 triple-doubles in a single season? why, none other than the big dipper himself, who accomplished this feat during the 1967-68 season. (for the newcomer: a triple-double would include points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocked-shots)
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and what makes these two records special, was the time period that they were set in. the obstacles that blacks had to face back then, not being allowed to eat at certain restaurants and stay at certain hotels just because of their color! i CAN imagine the threats, obscenities and racial slurs that they had to endure and yet they persevered! it was as if they had a point to prove or statement to make, and they did! ( i read that wilt didn't give a shit! he ate wherever he wanted, signs or no signs, and nobody really bothered him. would you?}
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You're right Hi-Low. But 44 sounds beter than 31 and whe I saw Reggie Theus in Atanta, I asked him about being trashed for 44 against Hilo and he simply stated "that dude should have played pro!".
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Actually Alan Tanabe ended he's career with I DON'T KNOW basketball team
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Wilt held most of the scoring records in the NBA when he retired, and still holds several today.
But if we're talking college, there is only one name that stands above the rest -- former LSU All-American "Pistol Pete" Maravich, who averaged 44.2 points per game for his three-year varsity career with 28 games of 50 or more points.
Maravich, a 6-foot-5 guard and the most creative ballhandler to ever play at the pro or college level, played at LSU from 1968-70. He wore the number "23" years before Michael Jordan came along and made it popular.
During Maravich's collegiate career, there was no 3-point shot. But former LSU coach Dale Brown went back to the Maravich game shot charts and determined from shot distance combined with his shooting percentage that Pete would have averaged 13 more points per game if his long distance makes were counted as 3-pointers.
That means Pete would have averaged 57.2 ppg!
Pete was a first round draft choice by the Atlanta Hawks in 1970 and wore the number 44, since the Hawks' veteran star, Lou Hudson, already wore 23. Pete played four seasons with the Hawks before going on to wear "7" with the New Orleans/Utah Jazz (1974-78) before finishing out his career wearing the same number with the Boston Celtics.
As a 10-year pro, Pete averaged 24.2 ppg, scoring 15,948 career points to go along with 3,563 assists. He was named to the NBA all-star team five times. He was also named as one of the league's alltime Top 50 players when the NBA announced its 50th anniversary team several years ago.
Pete died in 1988 of a heart attack at the age of 40. But his legend lives on with his "Homework Basketball" series, Youtube clips and many other videos highlighting his amazing career.
He also played in the Rainbow Classic one year and if I remember correctly, was named the tournament's most outstanding player despite LSU finishing fifth.
There's no doubt that fans got their money's worth when they watched Pete play.
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check this out! pistol tried a shot in the rainbow classic OFF HIS HEAD! no kiddin! one of my boyhood idols! also, no 3-pointers in the nba at that time either. ( wilt had alot of dunks, a whole lot of them!)
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remember the nba HORSE shootout back then when it was just the two shooters in a gym, no spectators? pete use to shoot sitting down, back to the basket? how about the wrap around behind the back, off the glass, and you had to call it? picked up great ball handling skills from pete and press maravich ( pete's pops!) that i pass on down till this day! remember george "the iceman" gervin melted against pete in one shootout, all he could do is smile! it was funny watching all my basketball heros' get down on the ground and play HORSE the way we did!pete has a number of videos on ball handling that i would recommend for all coaches, players and interested hoopers! unreal!
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Hi-Low thanks for stopping by. Always good to chat with a legend.
HoopH.Y.N.- You're on a roll. A.T. is now tearing it up on the local tennis scene. Same intensity, same fluidity.96720~ i figured how to get the scores off of my phone. BTW, A.T. did play of ALOHA OTTO. during that time i was leading the Wainaku mens league in assists. All I did was inbound the ball to Alan and the rest is history.
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I heard Scott Prather, after his playing days at UHHilo were over and he returned to Maui, scored 105 points in a game. Hope someone can confirm....
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O my god, if someone scored 105 points on me, I would shoot myself in the foot.
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@brew- hilo's legend FEE FEE told me he did score that much on you
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@oldG-if you were inbounding the ball everytime that means 2 things you were either playing forward or center which means it had to be a 6ft& way under league and the other team scored alot....lol
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Fee Fee or Fufu(bless his soul). At least I didn't let crazy Gordon score the game winner on me!!! LOL
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got to meet chamberlain! played for the 5th grade CYO basketball championship against st. cecilas in san francisco. the prize? we got to play our game BEFORE the los angeles lakers and san francisco warriors game at the COW PALACE in S.F.! saw jerry west, who was wearing a black leather jacket, guy rodgers and wilt! he was leaning against the basket support and i put my little hand on his number 13, and that was my number thru college! wilt was in hilo with his volleyball team, wilt's little stilts during our haili vb tourney a few years back, putting on his shoes, in a honda 4 door! small kind rap we had! got to meet my boyhood idle, twice!
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That's an awesome story Hoopwaiian. The only guys I get to meet at RC and Jones....Damn!
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Sorry HF, but i am not in the same league with wilt on scoring. Plus he scored a lot on the court too.
Great comments about the Pistol. He is the greatest ball handler of all time. I am reading a book about his life right now.
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