Title: Bob Lanier
Content:  Robert Jerry Lanier Jr. was born on September 10, 1948, in Buffalo, New York, the son of Robert Sr. and Nannette Lanier. Growing up in Buffalo, Lanier initially was rejected in his basketball efforts. Trying out for his grammar school team, Lanier was told by a coach that his feet ( size 11 at age 11) were too large for him to be a successful athlete. Although he was 6-foot-5 by age 16, Lanier didn't make the varsity basketball squad in his sophomore year at Bennett High School under coach Nick Mogavero because he was deemed too clumsy. In his junior year, he was encouraged to try out again by new coach Fred Schwepker, who had 
Title: Bob Lanier
Content:  Lanier was a three-time Converse All-America selection (1968–1970), playing for coach Weise at St. Bonaventure. In 1970, he led the St. Bonaventure to the NCAA Final Four. He injured his knee near the end of the regional championship game in a collision with Villanova's Chris Ford and did not participate in St. Bonaventure's National Semifinal loss to Jacksonville University with center Artis Gilmore. That year he was named Coach and Athlete Magazine player of the year, and the ECAC Player of the Year.
Title: Bob Lanier
Content:  Lanier currently owns and operates Bob Lanier Enterprises, Inc., a promotional marketing company and is a member of the Proforma network. Lanier's knee injuries that plagued his later career have worsened as he has aged, and he has undergone several surgeries since his retirement, as recently as 2017. From 2005 to the present day, Lanier has been the NBA Cares Global Ambassador. Lanier routinely works with youth-serving programs that support education, youth, and family development, and health-related causes. At the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, visitors are able to compare the size of their foot to that of Lanier's. The largest shoe ever created by shoe company 
Title: Bob Lanier
Content:  For his fourteen-season career, Lanier played in 959 games, averaging 20.1 points, 10.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.1 steals. He scored 19,248 total points and had 9,698 total rebounds. In 67 career playoff games, Lanier averaged 18.6 points, 9.7 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 blocks. Lanier played in eight NBA All-Star Games. "Bob probably wasn't as good a total player as he could have been because of the knee injury," said Hall of Famer Willis Reed, acknowledging, "He probably was one of the best all-around big men ever to play the game of basketball."
Title: Bob Lanier
Content:  appreciate it even more than my (college) teammates," Lanier reflected on the Final Four in 1985, "because I had a basis for comparison. It wasn't the money, or who got the 'numbers' like in the NBA. We weren't any big stars, it was a couple of guys from Buffalo and a guy from Troy all blending together." Lanier was named first-team All-American at center, alongside future Hall of Famers Dan Issel (Kentucky), Pete Maravich (LSU) and Calvin Murphy (Niagara), along with College Basketball Hall of Famer Rick Mount (Purdue). Lanier graduated from St. Bonaventure with a degree in business administration. Lanier holds St. Bonaventure records for scoring and rebounding, averaging 27.6 points and 15.7 rebounds, with 57% shooting in 75 career games.
Title: Bob Lanier
Content:  get better. Our guys just fought, we persevered. ... In 1970, you know, Bob Lanier got hurt, and didn't have a chance to play UCLA and ... this is for him." “When I got the job here 11 years ago, we hear the stories about 1970,” Schmidt said. “And everybody talks about if Lanier was healthy, they would have taken on UCLA. This victory is for those guys.” In September, 2018, Lanier cited one of his most notable NBA memories: "...when I was still playing in Milwaukee and I was getting gas at a station on, I think it was Center St. A guy came up to me and said, 'My 
Title: Bob Lanier
Content:  Robert Jerry Lanier Jr. (born September 10, 1948) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Lanier was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992. In his 14 NBA seasons, Lanier averaged 20.1 points, 10.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 1.5 blocks, and 1.1 steals while shooting 51.4 percent from the field. He played in eight NBA All-Star Games, and was named Most Valuable Player of the 1974 game. He has had his #16 jersey retired by both the Pistons and the Bucks and his #31 jersey retired by St. Bonaventure University. Lanier is an NBA ambassador.
Title: Bob Lanier
Content:  period of inactivity following the surgery. Lanier played while still recovering from surgery. He was named to the 1971 NBA All-Rookie Team, averaging 15.6 points and 8.1 rebounds, for the 45–37 Pistons, in 24 minutes per game under Coach Butch van Breda Kolff. "I wasn't healthy when I got to the league," Lanier reflected. "I shouldn’t have played my first year. But there was so much pressure from them to play, I would have been much better off—and our team would have been much better served—if I had just sat out that year and worked on my knee. My knee was so sore every single day that it was ludicrous 
Title: Rob Lanier
Content:  Lanier played his college basketball at St. Bonaventure, where he scored 868 career points and was named to the Atlantic 10 Conference All-Freshman Team.
Title: Bob Lanier
Content:  in Biology class. Lanier tried out again. Lanier averaged 21.5 points for Bennett High School and was named to the All-City team as a junior. In his senior year, he averaged 25.0 points and he earned All-Western New York State honors. Both years he led Bennett to Buffalo city titles. After his successes under coach Schwepker, Lanier graduated in 1966. Lanier was recruited by more than 100 universities, but he elected to attend St. Bonaventure University, under legendary Coach Larry Weise. “There was recruiting competition, but the advantage I had, and what I sold was that his parents could come watch him play,’’ Said Coach Weise. “He picked St. Bonaventure. His parents were at every game.’’

Question: What sport does Bob Lanier play?
Answer: basketball.
hoops.
b-ball.
basket ball.
BB.
Basketball.