Great trivia question

[ShoogarBear]

Antoine Walker and Derek Anderson have now been teammates on both NCAA and NBA championship teams.

Name the last such pair.

Why is this is the Spurs forum? Because none of the Mav fans in the NBA forum know anything about basketball before 2000. :p

[Trainwreck2100]

umm........... Mark Cuban is an ass???

[Nesterofish]

Lucius Allen and Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

NCAA Champions, UCLA 1967 & 1968
NBA Champions, Milwaukee, 1971

[ShoogarBear]

Allen and Alcindor did it, but they weren't the last ones before Walker and Anderson.

[polandprzem]

Damn :pctoss I'm done with looking for those 2 players

[whottt]

I'm going to guess that, whoever it was, they went to North Carolina.

[ShoogarBear]

That would be a no. It wasn't NC, and it wasn't UCLA.

[polandprzem]

I'm going to guess that, whoever it was, they went to North Carolina.
nope

It's not Houston University also :)

[whottt]

nope

It's not Houston University also :)


That's easy enough to know...

Houston=Choke City
Cougars=Are in the dictionary under the definition of choke.

[NASpurs]

Hakeem and Drexler?

*edit* damn I just read the responses :pctoss

[polandprzem]

That's easy enough to know...

Houston=Choke City

You've got to think about the spurs maybe.

You know - Shoog wouldn't put this in San Antonio Forum just beacuse the Mavs fan was invented in 2000

[ShoogarBear]

No, although the list of college teammates who won NBA titles together like Hakeem and Clyde is probably not very long either.

[NASpurs]

Must have been someone from the Pistons. I can't remember anyone from the Bulls, Lakers or Spurs having accomplished this. Let's see...

[polandprzem]

There are no big names also I've checkd the Magics Thomases and Jordans and Birds. What makes it difficult is that I don't know the NCAA chapions and this is a key (Google it polandprzem !)

For excample Kerr and Beauchler were playing at the same university

[polandprzem]

974 North Carolina St. (30-1)
1975 UCLA (28-3)
1976 Indiana (32-0)
1977 Marquette (25-7)
1978 Kentucky (30-2)
1979 Michigan St. (26-6)
1980 Louisville (33-3)
1981 Indiana (26-9)
1982 North Carolina (32-2)
1983 North Carolina St. (26-10)
1984 Georgetown (34-3)
1985 Villanova (25-10)
1986 Louisville (32-7)
1987 Indiana (30-4)
1988 Kansas (27-11)
1989 Michigan (30-7)
1990 UNLV (35-5)
1991 Duke (32-7)
1992 Duke (34-2)
1993 North Carolina (34-4)
1994 Arkansas (31-3)
1995 UCLA (31-2)
1996 Kentucky (34-2)
1997 Arizona (25-9)
1998 Kentucky (35-4)
1999 Connecticut (34-2)
2000 Michigan St. (32-7)
2001 Duke (35-4)
2002 Maryland (32-4)
2003 Syracuse (30-5)
2004 Connecticut (33-6)
2005 North Carolina (33-4)
2006 Florida (33-6)

[NASpurs]

Man these guys were probably scrubs which is why no one remembers them :lol

[ShoogarBear]

Okay, I'll give you a hint: yes, they were scrubs on their NBA team. But of course they were stars on their college team (although not All-Americans).

Another hint: One of them has a son who also played in the NBA.

[polandprzem]

Henry?

^no!

[polandprzem]

I've got a game to watch dammit.

I found the NBA relatives :)

[whottt]

If it came after the 71 Bucks and the guy has a son that played in the NBA that gives a very small Window for the NBA championship....Between 1972 and say 1982, Wasn't UCLA, wasn't NC.

[polandprzem]

Not Ferry not Paxon not Bibby.

WTF? Who else?

[whottt]

Phil Cheneier and Charlie Johnson were teammates at UCAL Barb and won a championship with the Bullets. I seriously doubt UCAL Barb won an NCAA title though.

[mike detroit]

Must have been someone from the Pistons. I can't remember anyone from the Bulls, Lakers or Spurs having accomplished this. Let's see...

no one on the current pistons went to college together. maybe the bad boys though, not sure on them

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Mike Dunleavy, Sr. never won a title.

[Obstructed_View]

I didn't look, but did Willis and Smith win a national championship at Michigan State? Nah, someone would have answered that by now if it were that obvious.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I didn't look, but did Willis and Smith win a national championship at Michigan State?

Were they teammates at MSU?

[Obstructed_View]

Were they teammates at MSU?
Nope. I was wrong about that too. I forgot how old Kevin is. :)

[j-6]

Billy Thompson and Milt (DaJuan's Dad) Wagner, '86 Louisville and '88 LA Lakers.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Billy Thompson and Milt (DaJuan's Dad) Wagner, '86 Louisville and '88 LA Lakers.

Insert Clapping Smiley.

[mike detroit]

Billy Thompson and Milt (DaJuan's Dad) Wagner, '86 Louisville and '88 LA Lakers.\
your sig file is hot in a way i can't really explain.

[NASpurs]

http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/clap.gif

[whottt]

No they weren't....everyone forgets that Kevin Willis was playing pro ball in the 1940's.

[whottt]

Billy Thompson and Milt (DaJuan's Dad) Wagner, '86 Louisville and '88 LA Lakers.


Sounds like it'd have to be it.

Damn it's hard to believe that a guy that was playing in college in 1986 could have a son in the NBA already.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Billy Thompson and Milt (DaJuan's Dad) Wagner, '86 Louisville and '88 LA Lakers.

http://img58.exs.cx/img58/6357/SilkyJohnson3.jpg

"I hope all the bad things in life happen to you and nobody else but you."

[whottt]

There were two Serbian and Montenegrians on the 04 Pistons...

Perhpas that's the first time two international players from the same country won an NBA championship?

Followed by Rasho and Beno the following year?

[polandprzem]

j-6 you wil, get a prize.


One big chocolate Bear

[whottt]

RE: Walker and DA...

I was just looking at the roster of the 96 Wildcats...

That freaking team had 9 NBA players on it...

That's got to be a record in itself.

[j-6]

RE: Walker and DA...

I was just looking at the roster of the 96 Wildcats...

That freaking team had 9 NBA players on it...

That's got to be a record in itself.

From a UK fansite, for what this is worth...

http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/1995-96.html


This team tied the unofficial record of most players to have made the NBA with nine. [The other teams in question are the '81-82 UCLA Bruins (Mark Eaton, Ralph Jackson, Michael Holton, Darren Daye, Rod Foster, Brad Wright, Stuart Gray, Mike Sanders and Kenny Fields) and the '90-91 North Carolina Tar Heels (Pete Chilcutt, Rick Fox, Hubert Davis, George Lynch, Matt Wenstrom, Eric Montross, Derrick Phelps, Clifford Rozier and Kevin Salvadori)]. Incredibly, the 1946-47 Kentucky squad also had nine players play in the NBA. Below is a listing of the 1996 Kentucky players who made the league.

Player - Initial Team

Derek Anderson - Cleveland Cavs
Tony Delk - Golden State Warriors
Walter McCarty - New York Knicks
Ron Mercer - Boston Celtics
Mark Pope - Indiana Pacers
Antoine Walker - Boston Celtics
Nazr Mohammed - Philadelphia 76ers
Jeff Sheppard - Atlanta Hawks
Wayne Turner - Boston Celtics

[whottt]

Pete Chilcutt

This guy and Kenny Smith were who I originally thought was the answer to the first question...they were on the NC team together one year...no championship though.

[ShoogarBear]

As everyone has figured out, j-6 got it.

Did the son hint give it away?

[ShoogarBear]

Here's another one, and it's actually Spurs related:

How many NBA players have had the last name "Duncan"?

(Easy to look up, but see if you know before you do.)

[polandprzem]

Tim and Andy ?

[ShoogarBear]

:lol, right, like you ever heard of Andy Duncan (1948-1950).

But yeah, amazingly, that's the only other Duncan to play in the NBA.

[polandprzem]

:lol, right, like you ever heard of Andy Duncan (1948-1950).

But yeah, amazingly, that's the only other Duncan to play in the NBA.

Well Shoog I knew there was another Duncan, but I must checked what his name was.


Which fameous center had a brother with whom he was playing in college?