‘Strayan Nickame: ‘Knifey’ / ‘The Other Round Mound of Rebound’ / ‘Melon’

Teams:
Philadelphia 76ers (’92-‘98)
Golden State Warriors (’98)
Miami Heat (’98-‘00)
Cleveland Cavaliers (’00-‘01)
New York Knicks (’01-‘03)
Houston Rockets (’03-‘05)

Career Stats (per game):
11.5 pts // 7.5 rebs // 1.5 asts // 1.0 stls // 0.9 blks // 47.1 FG% // 19.6 3P%

Best known for:
– Being named ‘Clarence Weatherspoon’
– Pump-faking about 30 times on every possession under the basket
– Weirdly playing with each of Manute Bol, Shawn Bradley AND Yao Ming… and, even though he was a foot shorter, averaging more rebounds than all of ‘em
– Playing with Jim Jackson on FOUR different teams
– Having the ability to cram it on fools, score 20, get 20 rebounds and steal your girl
– Coming second in the ’93 dunk comp to Harold ‘Baby Jordan’ Miner
– Having a dunk awesomely called the ‘Spoon Feed’
– Having the widest head in NBA history

Dead-Set Ledge Status:
Assured! C’mon mate – usually anybody toting a melon like that and named ‘Clarence’ would get beaten behind like a red-head behind the Bendigo Secondary bike sheds… but if you tried that on someone named ‘Clarence Weatherspoon’ you’d get a Barry Hall-Brent Staker level belting. Sure, he got dogged by Larry Brown (who didn’t?) and didn’t quite reach the heights that a nickname like ‘Baby Barkley’ indicated… but with an All-Time G-R-E-A-T NBA name like ‘Clarence Weatherspoon’, Clarence Weatherspoon is a dead-set ledge for sure. One more time: CLARENCE WEATHERSPOON!

#ONYA Knifey!!

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