From: byau@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ben Yau)
Subject: Re: Ben's Trivia
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:31:56 GMT


hi all.  here are some more hints.. maybe the questions were more obscure
than I thought..you know how it always goes when you have the answer to the
magic trick.. :)

>#1:
>What were the circumstances surrounding this quote (parts left out so as not
>to make it too obvious):
>
>Terry Kofler: "I'll have to say that ....team, they showed remarkable unity...
>To a man, they stood there naked from the waist down and scratched in unison."

Kofler worked as a trainer for an EXPANSION TEAM.
The event happened in Oct 1988.  

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>#2
>Who is said to have blocked three Charles Barkley-ferocious-in-your-face
>dunks in one game?

Knowing Sir Charles and how he likes to intimidate, how easily would he admit
that three of his dunks were blocked by someone?  Must be someone he truly 
admires and respects.  Most everyone in the building believed Charles just 
miffed the dunks as the balls shot away from the rim.  Charles tried to 
convince people that the dunks weren't miffed.  Charles claimed that the dunks 
shot out away from the rim beacuse of the contact from the mystery player.   
It wasn't until the next day when a photographer developed some photos that 
proof arised that at least one of the dunks was indeed blocked.


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>#3:
>Who was the first ABA player to jump to the NBA?
>What memorable event did he cause in 1968, about 8 years ahead of its time?

As for the player, I do not remember which team he jumped to.  His college
was the University of Detroit.  Since the event is pretty obscure, here it
is in detail:

The event:  Nov 30, 1968.

Before the game, the player had talked to his teammates about the
possibility of dunking from behind the key.  He knew he could get up high 
because during pregames someone would climb up and put quarters on top of the
backboard.  He could jump high enuogh from under the basket to take them off.

In the game, with 6.5 minutes left, he got his chance on a fast break.  

"I came downcourt and took off from behind the free throw line near the top
of the key.  I felt like I was flying.  I was looking right down on the
basket.  In fact, I was so high I scared myself....I slammed the ball home.
The force coming down from that height with such momentum was so great that
the basket and board just exploded."

(reference: 8 years later, Dr. J. did the now famous "free throw line dunk"
in the ABA dunking contest in 1976 to beat David Thompson)

"I was just as shocked as anyone.  No one had ever really destroyed a basket
and backboard the way I demolished that one.  Players like Darryl Dawkins
who came along later [11 years to be exact] and started breaking boards were 
really wimps.  They did it by hanging or pulling on the rims.  Not me.  I came 
straight down on that basket and it went to pieces."


so.. anyone know who this might be?

I will post answers probably tomorrow sometime since I guess the questions
are pretty hard.

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