Nickname: ‘Nate The Great’ / ‘Chairman of the Boards’

NBA Straya Nickame: ‘Thermos’

Teams:
San Francisco / Golden State Warriors (’63-’74)
Chicago Bulls (’74-’75)
Cleveland Cavaliers (’75-’77)

Career Stats (per game):
15.0 pts // 15.0 rebs // 2.7 asts // 42.1 FG% // 66.7 FT%

BEST KNOWN FOR:
– Being better than you ever suspected… like a basketball Merv Hughes
– First bloke to ever record a quadruple-double
– Not winning a title because he spent his career going against Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain… then Wilt and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Willis Reed… (plus he lost in the West finals in ’75 to his old team after they traded him and then they won the title… damn son)
– Being called the toughest defender both Kareem and Wilt went up against
– Once having 42 rebounds in a game
– Being the best player to be born in Akron, Ohio for a long time
– Being built like a brick shithouse
– Amazing bald-beard-gold chain combo

DEAD-SET LEDGE STATUS:
Assured!! And not just because of that bloody MAGNIFICENT beard-bald-gold chain combo! Thermos was one of the elite big men of the ‘60s & ‘70s, but gets forgotten because Russell, Wilt, Reed and Kareem were around at the same time… but he was a unit and a half, had the first ever QUADRUPLE-DOUBLE (something that’s only happened 3 times since) and a Dead-Set Ledge for damn sure!

#ONYA Thermos!

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