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The following is a list of recurring games, sketches, and other comedy routines from the NBC late-night talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and its predecessor, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The sketches feature host Jimmy Fallon, house band The Roots, announcer/sidekick Steve Higgins, the show's writers, celebrity guests, and ...
3 ( 1985, 1987, 1988) None. 1 ( 1988) 7. 2003. [ 56] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who voted as a player, was selected as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Larry Bird, who voted as a team representative, was selected as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Bill Russell (left) and Wilt Chamberlain (center), who voted as players ...
Universiade. 1979 Mexico City. Team competition. Jones Cup. 1984. Team competition. Lynette Woodard (born August 12, 1959) is an American basketball player and former head women's basketball coach at Winthrop University. Woodward played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks. She became the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters ...
Inducted in 2006. William John Cunningham (born June 3, 1943) is an American former professional basketball player and coach, who was nicknamed the Kangaroo Kid for his leaping and record-setting rebounding abilities. He spent a total of 17 seasons with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers (nine as player, eight as coach), and two seasons as a player ...
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The 1965–66 Texas Western Miners basketball team represented Texas Western College, now the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), led by Hall of Fame head coach Don Haskins. The team won the national championship in 1966, becoming the first team with an all-black starting lineup to do so. [ 1] The Miners only lost one game, a road loss to ...
It has only happened once in the United States, however. Wilt Chamberlain of the National Basketball Association 's Philadelphia Warriors scored 100 points on March 2, 1962 against the New York Knicks during a game played at Hersheypark Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania. [ 24] He made 36-of-63 field goals and 28-of-32 free throws, the latter being ...
The men's national basketball team of the United States won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Led by Basketball Hall of Fame head coach Lenny Wilkens, the team won gold for the second straight Olympics. Nicknamed Dream Team III, [ 2 ][ 3 ] the team included five players who were Olympic teammates on the original ...