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Taylor's greatest legacy is the iconic Converse All Star shoe that he helped to improve and tirelessly promoted for nearly four decades. Most American basketball players wore Chuck Taylor All Stars between the mid-1920s and the 1970s. Converse All Stars were also the official basketball shoe of the Olympic games from 1936 until 1968.
By the 1950s, Chuck Taylor All Stars had become a standard among high school, collegiate, and professional basketball players. [10]In the 1960s, Converse had captured about 70 to 80 percent of the basketball shoe market, with Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars being worn by ninety percent of professional and college basketball players.
Established in 1939 and later named as an homage to the Chuck Taylor All-Stars, an iconic basketball shoe in the early 20th century, it has been awarded every year with the exceptions of 1944 due to World War II and 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. [1]
Charlie Taylor (footballer, born 1884) (1884–1953), Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy; Charlie Taylor (rugby league) (1921–2013), English rugby league footballer; Chuck Taylor (baseball) (1942–2018), American baseball player; Chuck Taylor (salesman) (1901–1969), American basketball player and shoe salesman
He received the Chuck Taylor MVP Award for the second time in a row. He also was the first small college player to win the Lapchick Trophy-Sporting News College Basketball Player of the Year award. [2] Grant graduated as the all-time/all-division scoring leader in college basketball history with 4,045 points (378 more than Pistol Pete Maravich ...
Chuck Terry; Personal information; Born September 27, 1950 (age 74) Long Beach, California, U. S. Listed height: 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) Listed weight: 215 lb (98 kg) Career information; High school: Jordan (Long Beach, California) College: Long Beach CC (1968–1970) Long Beach State (1970–1972) NBA draft: 1972: 2nd round, 29th overall pick
Stats at Basketball Reference Leonard Chester Taylor Jr. (born May 2, 1966) is a retired American professional basketball power forward who spent one season in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Golden State Warriors during the 1989–90 season.
Stats at Basketball Reference Brian Dwight Taylor (born June 9, 1951) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the Kansas City Kings , Denver Nuggets , and San Diego Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).