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Bob Pettit is an American professional basketball player, the first to score 20,000 points in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A clumsy player in high school, Pettit turned himself into a graceful 6-foot 9-inch (2.06-metre) athlete, and today he is considered to be the first really agile
Dec 22, 2021 · Bob Pettit defined the modern power forward position, and in doing so set standards that had never-before been reached in professional basketball. The first to 20,000 career points, the first to ...
Dec 22, 2021 · Bob Pettit defined the modern power forward position, and in doing so set standards that had never-before been reached in professional basketball. The first to 20,000 career points, the first to score 50 in a championship game, the first to win the Most Valuable Player award, Pettit blazed a trail for the truly remarkable power forwards that would follow.
Lean, graceful, and always well-conditioned, Bob Pettit's physical build made him one of the first big men to play facing the basket. But Pettit's resolve set him apart from his peers; he simply would not be outworked by his competitors. Although he was a three-time All-SEC center with an average of 27.8 points per game throughout his college ...
Sep 14, 2021 · The Celtics survived for a 125-123 double-overtime victory in Game 7 as St. Louis player-coach Alex Hannum threw a court-length inbounds pass off the backboard to Hawks star Bob Pettit, whose ...
Sep 14, 2021 · History. Top Moments: After years of letdowns, Bob Pettit has his revenge in 1958. After losing to the nemesis Celtics in the 1957 Finals, St. Louis wins the rematch a year later. The Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks staged one of the best rivalries of the NBA’s early era, meeting in the NBA Finals four times in five years beginning with ...
Oct 21, 2021 · St. Louis Hawks legend Bob Pettit, who was the NBA’s first-ever Most Valuable Player, was recently named to the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team. Pettit, a 6-foot-9 forward originally from ...
