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Moses wrote:At the age of 14, I discovered the secret: 'pick the one thing you do best and work at it.' So while every other kid was trying to be the 'Next Iceman', I was hitting the boards. Because I figure, if you ain't got the ball, you can't shoot the ball.
Quotatious wrote:I'm a bigman with Chuck Hayes's height, Manute Bol's weight, Ben Wallace's shooting ability, Dwight Howard's passing ability, Blake Griffin's shotblocking, Mark Eaton's speed/quickness, Kwame Brown's hands, Andrea Bargnani's toughness and Amare Stoudemire's defensive instincts.
I wonder why an NBA team never called?
Dr Olajuwon wrote:Thanks RightToCensor
RightToCensor wrote:If you or anybody can find me a full game of Moses Malone I'd be gracious. It's hard finding games of him at his peak ability.
Quotatious wrote:I'm a bigman with Chuck Hayes's height, Manute Bol's weight, Ben Wallace's shooting ability, Dwight Howard's passing ability, Blake Griffin's shotblocking, Mark Eaton's speed/quickness, Kwame Brown's hands, Andrea Bargnani's toughness and Amare Stoudemire's defensive instincts.
I wonder why an NBA team never called?
Peja Stojakovic wrote:Jimmy butler, with no regard for human life
RightToCensor wrote:Was Moses Malone drafted to the NBA straight out of HS like people have been claiming? I thought he was drafted by the ABA, played two seasons for the Utah Stars, then was drafted to the NBA via the merger.
The ABA-NBA merger occurred after the 1975–76 season, but the Spirits of St. Louis were not among the ABA teams chosen to join the NBA.[10] Malone had already been selected by the NBA's New Orleans Jazz in a December 1975 pre-merger draft for ABA players of undergraduate age. However, the NBA let them place Malone into the 1976 ABA dispersal draft pool in exchange for the return of their first-round draft pick in 1977, which they used to trade for Gail Goodrich.[11] In the 1976 dispersal draft, held for the remaining ABA players, Malone was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the fifth overall pick in the draft.[2]
However, he never appeared in a regular-season game for the Blazers. The Blazers had also acquired power forward Maurice Lucas in the draft and believed they had acquired two players with similar skill sets. Concerns over the team's salary costs compelled them to choose one and release the other. Portland chose to keep Lucas and traded Malone to the Buffalo Braves prior to the first game of the 1976–77 season for a first-round draft choice in the 1978 NBA Draft and $232,000.[12] Malone played in two games with Buffalo. Because they could not meet Malone's demands for playing time, they then traded him to the Houston Rockets in exchange for two first-round draft picks, one in each of the 1977 and 1978 drafts.[13]
When he became eligible for the NBA draft in 1972, the Milwaukee Bucks picked him in the first round (12th overall). This move would have brought him together with Oscar Robertson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Instead, the 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m), 210-pound (95 kg) Erving signed a contract with the Atlanta Hawks before the 1972 draft when he discovered his former agent Steve Arnold happened to work for the Squires, deluding him to sign for a low paying contract.[20]
As attorneys tried to reach an agreement among three teams in two leagues, Erving joined Pete Maravich and the Hawks's training camp, as they prepared for the upcoming season. Erving enjoyed his brief time with Atlanta, and he would later duplicate with George Gervin his after-practice playing with Maravich. He played three exhibition games with the Hawks until, because of a legal injunction, he was obliged by a three-judge panel to return to the ABA Squires. The NBA fined Atlanta $25,000 per game for Erving's Hawks appearances because Milwaukee owned his NBA rights.[21]
Dr Olajuwon wrote:Quotatious wrote:I'm a bigman with Chuck Hayes's height, Manute Bol's weight, Ben Wallace's shooting ability, Dwight Howard's passing ability, Blake Griffin's shotblocking, Mark Eaton's speed/quickness, Kwame Brown's hands, Andrea Bargnani's toughness and Amare Stoudemire's defensive instincts.
I wonder why an NBA team never called?
Knicks would give you the max
Because Knicks
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