Basketball Trivia
 

What happened to the trivia thread that was really spam that I had hoped to rescue with a real basketball trivia question.

MTD, Sr.

It must've become too on-topic and related to basketball.

OK - here's one. Which NBA franchise has existed under the most different names and what were all those names?

Rats.....and I researched and answered MTD Sr.s question too. Interesting!

Without looking it up I will guess the Sacramento Kings, Kansas City-Omaha Kings, Kansas City Kings, Cincinnati Royals, Rochester Royals.

Not sure what the Baltimore Bullets were prior to that name, but they were the Capitol Bullets & Washington Bullets prior to becoming the Washington Wizards. [insert Jay Leno's joke here]

Just A Guess ???
 

Rochester Royals
Cincinnati Royals
Kansas City/Omaha Kings
Kansas City Kings
Sacramento Kings

They started as the Chicago Packers, then became the Chicago Zephyrs before moving to Baltimore. They changed their name in Chicago from the Packers because there was a lot of backlash from Bears fans, as you can imagine, even though the number of meat packers in Chicago was about a few thousand more than there ever were in Green Bay, so there was some validity to the nickname.

When can we give them back?

You Could Look It Up ...
 

Zephyrs; from the Latin Zephyrus, god of breaking wind.

I guess the NBA player who has had the most names is on the Spurs. He started as Anthony Parker, then became Tony Parker, now is Tony Longoria-Parker. :rolleyes:

And you know something? I can't blame him for the last change. WOW!

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Change the signature....
 

....if you go on the baseball board...
Coach - he hit the ball - and it's a fundamental principle of this game that you cannot foul the ball.

Hey MTD, Sr.
 

What was your question?

Which former ABA teams now playing in the NBA have won a championship?

Mark:

Of all of the men who have coached men's basketball at the University of Kansas, only one has a losing record for his time as the Jayhawks coach. Who is he?

MTD, Sr.

1) Chicago Packers.........'61-'62
2) Chicago Zephyrs.........'62-'63
3) Baltimore Bullets........'63-'73
4) Capital Bullets............'73-'74
5) Washington Bullets......'74-'97
6) Washington Wizards.....'97-Present

ABA Champs:
Indiana Pacers-'69-'70/'71-'72/'72-'73
New Jersey Nets (as NY Nets)-'73-'74/'74-'75

NBA Champs:
San Antonio Spurs-'06-'07/'04-'05/'02-'03/'98-'99

Ironically
 

Dr. Naismith himself.......

OK - here's a weird one. What former NBA team owner went to the same HS as me? And what two MLB all-star pitchers also went to that same HS?

If my memory serves me well, I think that you stated previously on this fourm that this person is Jerry Colangelo.


Working off the fact that Colangelo's bio states that he attended Bloom High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois (and I know that Padgett grew up in Chicago), I found one of the other alums to be "Jim Bouton is a former Major League Baseball pitcher (1962–70, 78), playing most of his career for the New York Yankees. He is also an author Ball Four."

I can't seem to find the other MLB all-star pitcher.

Bret Saberhagen 3x All Star pitcher ('82,'90,&'94)
Bio indicates that he was born in Chicago Hgts., IL, but graduated from Grover Cleveland HS, in Resedo, CA. Of course, he could have began his high school career at Bloom and then moved to CA from Chicago Hgts.

Other Chicago Hghts. pros
 

Ted Uhelander-MLB, Twins/Indians/Reds
Bret Prinz- MLB pitcher, 6 seasons...D'backs/Angels/Yanks/White Sox
Rodney Harrison-NFL 2x Pro Bowl...Chargers/Patriots

Give the man a cigar. Padgett and I officiated the first KU game that Dr. Naismith coached, :D.

MTD, Sr.

That explains it. He was so disgusted with you guys that he quit after losing the game.

You guys are good at your research. Yes, I went to Bloom and it was Colangelo. He graduated about 8 years before I did, but I was in the same class as his sister. Also, Dick Butkus' two sisters. They were twins. Fortunately for them, not to him, just to each other.

OK - here's one. After Bill Walton played for the Blazers, one other player wore his jersey number, 32, before the team retired it. Who was it?

LOL


MTD, Sr.

According to BASKETBALL-REFERENCE.COM, two Portland players wore Walton's #32 after he played for the Blazers:
Mike Harper..........'81-'82 (123 games)
and the unforgetable....
Rolando Ferreira....'89 (12 games)

Descendants Of Amerigo Vespucci ???
 

Isn't his sister, America Ferreira, the star of the ABC television show "Ugly Betty"?

Saw that, but didn't include him in my answer as I couldn't find any evidence that he attended HS in IL. Mark can tell us for sure or perhaps he had another player in mind.

Wasn't aware of Rolando, but Michael Harper is the guy. He's now an insurance agent here in Portland. BTW - Harper once donated an autographed game-worn jersey to a fundraising auction for a non-profit here and I bought it at the auction and gave it to my son. A few years later, he wore it to a Blazer Alumni Team game in which Harper was playing. Harper saw him with the jersey on and called him out to the floor to shoot two free throws for him during the game. My kid made both of them and the place went nuts. Harper and some of the other ex-Blazers high fived him. My son still talks about it every so often.

As to Bret Saberhagen, I was told he attended my school only for his freshman year, then moved. I don't know if that's accurate or not. Recently, I emailed Jim Bouton and he said the thing he liked most about our HS was the great sports programs and the think he liked least was the huge number of kids. In those days, we usually had about 4000 attending. My graduating class had 712 (I was the youngest). Here's a link to my class website, in case you're really bored and have nothing to do. It's developed and managed by one of my former classmates whose company makes computer simulated war games for the US military. Cool!

The website is full of stuff from the 60s. Also cool!

Index 2007-11-03

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.

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

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

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.

OK - here's a tough one
 

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. :eek:

Actually, many years ago, I worked in radio and did play by play of HS and college games. It was only for two years but I had a blast. I also did HS football.

Here's a hint to my question. He's a former all-star player.

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

What individual from Power Memorial HS has spent the most years on the court in the NBA?

That would be Dick Bavetta, not Kareem.

34 years and counting versus 20. I think that this question was a give-away on an officials' forum. :)

Probably Don't Get To Pick A Prize From The Top Shelf ...
 

The easy answer would be Lew Alcindor, but I doubt that it's the right answer because I don't think that you would post such as easy question. The choice of the word "individual" rather than "player" leads me to believe that it's a coach, or more likely, since this is an official's forum, an official.

Ya' - you nailed it
 

Barry used to work NBA games on CBS on Sundays with Don Criqui doing the play-by-play. IMO, they were the best announcing team ever. Criqui described exactly what was going on in the game while still letting the viewers enjoy the action and Barry gave true in-depth analysis of the plays and strategies. The "problem" was that Barry was too detailed for the "average" fan and he would also explain why players made mistakes - usually because they weren't as smart about the game as Barry was.

I guess they couldn't "dumb it down" enough for CBS and the American public (what H.L. Mencken called "the great unwashed") . Too bad.