Basketball Trivia

[Judtech]

Here are three rather regional ones:
1. Who were the first two big name recruits to be Prop 48 casualties? (They went to the same University)
2. Who was shooting the free throw when Coach Knight "loaned the old lady across the floor" his chair? (or threw the chair, depending on who tells the story!)
3. What school did Shawn Kemp originally sign with ?

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Judtech

Here are three rather regional ones:
1. Who were the first two big name recruits to be Prop 48 casualties? (They went to the same University)
2. Who was shooting the free throw when Coach Knight "loaned the old lady across the floor" his chair? (or threw the chair, depending on who tells the story!)
3. What school did Shawn Kemp originally sign with ?

#1 I don't know.
#2 is Purdue's Steve Reid.
#3 Is Kentucky. He had that incident with the accusation of stealing gold chains from Coach Sutton's son.

For #1 do you want just basketball players? I recall that future Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware was ineligible due to Prop 48 in his first year at Houston.

[Judtech]

Prop 48 for Basketball. A pg and pf.
As for Kemp, can you name the type of car he was driving when he had his traffic difficulty? Now THAT is trivial!! HA

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Judtech

As for Kemp, can you name the type of car he was driving when he had his traffic difficulty?

It was a Rolls Canardly. That's a car that rolls down one hill and can hardly get up the next.

[Judtech]

Close. It was a Cavalier Z24. The reason I remeber that is b/c I was always curious how he FIT into the car? I also just assumed the UK boosters hadn't had his REAL car delivered yet!!
As for the other on, they were Rumeal Robinson and Terry Mills from the University of Michigan. Robinson actually had dyslexia and at the time there were no accomodations for that in the regulations.

[Mark Padgett]

What television basketball commentator got fired from a major network for "being too detailed" in his comments?

IOW - he got into too much depth when explaining what was going on and why.

Hint - it was an NBA commentator.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

What television basketball commentator got fired from a major network for "being too detailed" in his comments?

IOW - he got into too much depth when explaining what was going on and why.

Hint - it was an NBA commentator.

I didn't know you were an NBA commentator.

[sseltser]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

What television basketball commentator got fired from a major network for "being too detailed" in his comments?

IOW - he got into too much depth when explaining what was going on and why.

Hint - it was an NBA commentator.

My guess would be Rick Barry. He seems like he could be a very "detailed" guy.