Nickname: ‘Chocolate Thunder’ / ‘Dr Dunk’ / ‘Dr Dunkenstein’ / ‘Sir Slam’

NBA Straya Nickame: ‘Choccie Thunder’

Teams:
Philadelphia 76ers (’75-’82)
New Jersey #Nets (’82-’87)
Utah Jazz (’87)
Detroit Pistons (’87-’88)

Career Stats (per game):
12.0 pts // 6.1 rebs // 1.3 asts // 57.2 FG% // 68.5 FT% // 13.3 3pt%

BEST KNOWN FOR:
– being the dunkiest dunker who ever dunked
– naming his dunks amazing things like the ’Chocolate Thunder flyin’, glass flyin’, Robizine cryin’, parents cryin’, babies cryin’, glass still flyin’, rump roasting, bun toasting, thank you wham ma’am I am’ jam
— the ‘heart-stopper’
— the ‘rim-wrecker’
— the ‘left-handed spine-chiller supreme’
— the ‘turbo sexophonic delight’
– breaking backboards like they insulted his mum
– once breaking two backboards within three weeks
– once punching on with Mo Lucas, then tearing a toilet out of the floor after being tossed out of a Finals loss to the Blazers
– claiming to be from a planet called ‘Lovetron’, where he practiced ‘interplanetary funkmanship’
– doing a bunch of drugs & sleeping with a bunch of women
– being completely beloved by everyone because he was a dead-set ledge

DEAD-SET LEDGE STATUS:
THE SINGLE MOST Assured THING EVER! Mate! Chocolate Thunder was one of the most ferocious, vicious, badarse dunkers to have ever existed. Top that with a personality that would make Shane Warne blush, and you have one of the most beloved NBA players of All-Time.

What an assured bet, don’t touch the net, alien get, zeus’ pet, flyin’ jet, keep the ladies wet, hoops vet, ain’t seen nothin’ yet, not on ket, DEAD-SET ledge.

#ONYA Chocolate Thunder!

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