We've had a few different players mentioned on this subreddit as potentially being the greatest player never to make the NBA for various reasons and I thought I might as well make a list of some of my contenders for this title. If you think of someone I don't mention hear, please include them in the comments below!
Hank Luisetti: The first true superstar in college basketball history while at Stanford (only Luisetti, George Mikan, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, and Ralph Sampson have managed to win multiple College Player of the Year awards), Luisetti was a scoring phenom with a shot that quite resembled Steve Nash's floater. He was meant to be one of the original New York Knicks in 1946-47, but he contracted cerebrospinal meningitis while serving in WWII. He barely survived and the sulfathiazole that saved his life compromised his heart (Long QT Syndrome perhaps? I don't think he ever said what it was but I know there are connections between sulfa drugs and LQTS) and ended his basketball career.
Bob Kurland: George Mikan's biggest rival in college, Kurland turned down a $15,000 per year offer (which would've been a record at the time) from the St. Louis Bombers in 1946 to instead work for Phillips Petroleum and play for the Bartlesville Phillips 66ers. To his credit, it worked out – not only did he become basketball's first two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and one of the greatest AAU players ever, he also did well in the business world, becoming an executive at Phillips and getting elected to local political offices. He was a big part of why goaltending is illegal and he was the first player to dunk on a regular basis.
Sherman White: A 28-ppg scorer in college when 28-ppg players weren't really a thing, White had the potential to be the first black superstar of the NBA. A 6'8" PF with guard skills on offense, White was almost guaranteed to set the NCAA's single-season scoring record as a senior at LIU and then be selected with the Knicks' territorial pick in the 1951 NBA Draft until he was busted along with 31 other players in a massive point-shaving scandal. Everyone involved, including three players already in the NBA, were banned from the NCAA and NBA for life. It's worth noting that White, the only black player involved, served a jail sentence while every other player was handed a suspended sentence instead.
Marques Haynes: Haynes was a Harlem Globetrotters legend famous for his ability to dribble n
... keep reading on reddit ➡Bogdan is the 3rd Serbian player to achieve this. Two players before him were Dražen Dalipagić (202pts, 1978.) and Dragan Kićanović (190pts, 1982.).
Note: If Luis Scola scores 49pts against Spain in the finals, he is the highest scoring player, but the chances of that happening are from zero to none.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
It was about a weak back.
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
Bob
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
But nobody ever mentions his sister, Onya, who invented the starter pistol.
