Golden State Warriors
Manute Bol passed away on June 19th, 2010 at the age of 47. Did you know that Manute had more games with 10 or more Blocks (19 games) than he did games with 10+ points. (18 games) Second image is a collaboration piece with our dude @ostertagmademedoit
Happy Birthday to Sarunas Marciulionis. The ‘Lithuanian Legend’ The southpaw shooting guard was a spark off the Warriors bench during those running seasons of the early 90’s; finishing runner up in the 6th Man of the Year award for the ‘91-’92 season. Sarunas is known as the 1st Soviet player in the NBA. He led the Lithuanian National team to a Gold Medal in 1988, and Bronze in both ‘92 & ‘96.
Mitch Richmond was selected with the 5th overall pick in the 1988 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors. The 6-5 shooting guard out of Kansas State went on to win Rookie of The Year honors after averaging over 22 points a game for the 4th place Warriors that season. Happy Birthday Mitch!
On This Day in 1990 Don Nelson coached the Golden State Warriors during a 144-105 blowout loss to the Indiana Pacers. He became the 2nd Man in NBA History to have both played & coached in at least 1,000 games. Can you dudes name the 1st man to accomplished this feat? Happy Friday Folks!
🏀Tim Hardaway wore the # 5 for only his rookie season after being selected by the Golden State Warriors with the 14th overall pick in the 1989 draft. Does anybody know who was wearing Tim's customary # 10 that year? Happy birthday Tim!!
Golden State Warriors southpaw sharpshooter Chris Mullin had five consecutive seasons where he averaged over 25 points per game. (‘88-89 - ’92-93) Those were also the only 5 seasons of his 16 year career that Chris was selected to the All-Star Squad. Happy Birthday Chris!
Celebrating the Birthday of Eric ‘Sleepy’ Floyd who turned in an epic performance during the 1987 Western Conference semi-finals against the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers. Down 3-0 in the series the Warriors hoped to avoid the sweep. Sleepy scored a record 39 points in the 2nd half with another record 29 points in the 4th quarter alone on his way to 51 for the game.
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