NBA STRAYA #NeverForget OFF-SEASON EDITION!
Name: Craig Hodges
Nickname: ‘Hodg’
‘Strayan Nickame:
‘Dodger’ / ‘Hodgey’ / ‘Craigos’
Teams played for:
San Diego #Clippers (’82-’84)
Milwaukee Bucks (’84-‘88)
Phoenix Suns (’88)
Chicago Bulls (’88-’92)
Career Stats (per game):
8.5 pts // 1.3 rebs // 2.5 asts // 46.1 FG% // 40.0 3P%
Best known for:
– Only other bloke other than Larry Bird to win the All-Star 3-pt contest THREE TIMES
– Holding the bloody record for most consecutive shots hit, making NINETEEN in a row during in ’91
– Being an important part of MJ’s Bulls first two NBA titles: shot 45% from 3 during the ’92 playoffs
– Trying to get MJ and Magic to boycott Game 1 of the ’91 Finals in response to the Rodney King beating
– Wearing a dashiki to the White House and handing President Bush a letter about racial inequality
– Believing he was blackballed by the NBA for his outspoken political views
– Suing the NBA for $40 mill and charging them with conspiring to blackball him
– Wife tried to set him on fire by covering him in gasoline and flicking matches at him… in front of their kids’ school
Dead-Set Ledge Status:
Assured! Craig Hodges is one of the all-time pioneers for athlete-activists, the NBA’s version of Colin Kaepernick. Also, c’mon! Could you IMAGINE how big of a story it’d be now if the wife of an NBA player covered her husband in gasoline and tried to set him on fire? That’s unreal! But anyway – his political stance may’ve gotten him run out of the NBA, but he’s still a dead-set ledge.
#ONYA Hodgey!
