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NBA STRAYA #NeverForget OFF-SEASON EDITION!

#60s & #70s Week

Name: Rod Hundley

Nickname: ‘Hot Rod Hundley’

NBA Straya Nickame: ‘Hot Knob’ / ‘Gear Stick’ / ‘Dipstick’

Teams:
Minneapolis #Lakers (’57-’60)
Los Angeles Lakers (’60-‘63)

Career Stats (per game):
8.4 pts // 3.4 asts // 3.3 rebs // 34.7 FG% // 72.1 FT%

BEST KNOWN FOR:
– Having the NBA’s first best nickname
– Surviving the infamous Lakers plane crash
– Legendary Utah Jazz announcer
– Legendary partier, boozer and womanizer

DEAD-SET LEDGE STATUS:
Assured! C’mon! Hundley was a WV legend, was on the Lakers plane that crashed into an Iowa cornfield in 1960, had bloody ‘Hot Rod’ as a nickname, AND became a broadcasting institution! Sure, from all reports he was an All-Time horrible husband and father, but for all the boozing and womanizing and partying, he was still a dead-set ledge!

#ONYA Hot Knob!

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