Nickname: ‘Big Blue’ / ‘The Bombardier from Baton Rouge’

NBA Straya Nickame: ‘Bomber’ / ‘Teach’ / ‘Hairy Shoulders’

Teams:
Milwaukee / St Louis #Hawks (’54-’65)

Career Stats (per game):
26.4 pts // 16.2 rebs //3.0 asts // 43.6 FG% // 76.1 FT%

BEST KNOWN FOR:
– Being a 6’9” white power forward who once averaged a lazy 28 points and 20 rebounds
– Scoring 50 in the deciding game 6 and beating the Bill Russell Celtics for the ’58 title… the last time the Hawks won anything
– Losing to Bill Russell & the Celtics the rest of the time
– Was an All-Star every year he played in the NBA
– Was the first NBA MVP (and won it again a couple of years later)
– Probably having old-man strength from the day he was born
– Looking like a teacher
– Having hairier shoulders than bloody Sasquatch
– Was the first bloke to score 20k NBA points, beating Andrew Gaze by 35 years and 19,953 points

DEAD-SET LEDGE STATUS:
Assured!! Mate, despite being named for the Confederate general (his full name is, I shit you not, ‘Robert E Lee Pettit Jr’…. JUNIOR!), Bob Pettit was a beast and is one of only four blokes to never average less than 20 ppg in a season for their entire career (along with MJ, LeBron & KD). That some pretty dead-set ledgeness right there!

#ONYA Bomber!

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