The second round is a magic place that is mostly forgettable and occasionally franchise altering. For this list I only took people who drafted in the NBA in the second round, so no ABA drafts and third+ rounders. Please enjoy:
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1947: Red Rocha (Picked 19th overall by the Toronto Huskies)
10.9/6.6/2.0 - 1947-1953 and 1954-1957
Ephriam "Red" Rocha was a two-time all-star for the Bullets and Nationals, he also won a championship in 1955, the first of the shot clock era.
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1948: Harry Gallatin (Picked 19th overall by the New York Knicks)
13.0/11.9/1.8 - 1948-1958
Harry Gallatin was a seven-time all-star for the Knicks and later won Coach of the Year in 1963 as the coach of the St Louis Hawks. He also pitched for the Decatur Cubs in 1949, he wasn't very good.
Honorable Mention: Bill Gabor (22nd)
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1949: Jack Coleman (Picked 24th overall by the Rochester Royals)
10.6/9.2/2.8 - 1949-1958
An all-star and two-time champion, Coleman is apparently most known for being on the wrong end of a full-court Bill Russell block in 1957 Finals.
Honorable Mentions: Leo Barnhorst (14th) and Bob Harrison (23rd)
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1950: Bill Sharman (Picked 17th overall by the Washington Capitols)
17.8/3.9/3.0 - 1950-1961
One of five people to be inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame twice (player and coach), Bill Sharman won four championships as a player for the Boston Celtics, one as head coach of the LA Lakers, and five as an executive for the Lakers.
Honorable Mention: Chuck Cooper (13th)
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1951: Lew Hitch (Picked 20th overall by the Minneapolis Lakers)
5.0/5.3/1.2 - 1951-1957
Lew Hitch won two championships with the Lakers in 1952 and 1953 as a bench power forward.
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1952: Monk Meineke (Picked 13th overall by the Fort Wayne Pistons)
6.8/4.7/1.3 - 1952-1956 and 1957-1958
The first ever Rookie of the Year in NBA history, he also averaged 4.9 fouls per game and fouled out of 26 games, which is a record to this day.
Honorable Mention: Jack McMahon (19th)
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1953: Larry Hennessy (Picked 10th overall by the Philadelphia Warriors)
4.5/1.3/1.0 - 1953-1955
Hennessy was the only second rounder of the 1953 draft to play more than one season.
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1954: Richie Guerin (Picked 17th overall by the New York Knicks)
17.3/5.0/5.0 - 1956-1967 and 1968-1970
Richie Guerin was a fan favorite for the New York Knicks, setting multiple now-broken franchise records. He was a six-time all-star and was selected to three al
... keep reading on reddit ➡TL;DR
Made all-time hometown rosters with original 30 NBA teams + 25 new teams to split populated areas and big teams (spreadsheet + map)
Player Pool and Team Pool
I used the top 969 players who have at least 10000 minutes played in their career.
Why 10000 minutes played? Because that's the lower standard set by Basketball-Reference to get on their ABA career leaderboard (15000 MP for NBA). I added George Mikan, because even though he hasn't played enough minutes, he's featured in All-Time ESPN NBARank and Bill Simmons Hall of Fame Pyramid.
I started off with the current 30 teams. To split up the Lakers and Clippers, I gave the Clippers their proposed Inglewood site.
As I looked at the map of player hometowns, I realized that there were:
- some areas that had a lot of players, but few close NBA teams
- some areas that had bloated rosters with too many players
Based off city population and arena size, I added 25 new teams.
- I obviously had to give Seattle their team back
- Birmingham, North Little Rock and Shreveport helped to split up the South
- Pittsburgh and St. Louis were big cities without teams
- Berkeley added to siphon off San Francisco
- if I add Oakland, it takes away too many players
- Anaheim and Westwood added in Southern California (Clippers & Lakers)
- Winston-Salem and Raleigh to pare down Charlotte
- Lansing to prune Detroit
- 2nd Atlanta team in suburb of College Park
- 2nd Washington team and Baltimore
- 2 more teams in Chicago (Rosemont and South Side) + a team in Gary
- 2nd Indiana team + Louisville & Lexington
- 2nd Philadelphia team in suburb of Wynnewood
- 3 more teams in the New York Area (Newark, Queens and Long Island)
The Method
I started off gathering hometowns due to this fantastic database by Reuben Fischer-Baum ([original article source here](https://deadspin.com/infographics-where-do-pro-basketball-players-come-from-5132615
... keep reading on reddit ➡Gunpowder was invented in China sometime during the first millennium AD. The earliest possible reference to gunpowder appeared in 142 AD during the Eastern Han dynasty when the alchemist Wei Boyang, also known as the "father of alchemy", wrote about a substance with gunpowder-like properties.He described a mixture of three powders that would "fly and dance" violently in his Cantong qi, otherwise known as the Book of the Kinship of Three, a Taoist text on the subject of alchemy. Although he did not name the powders, "they were almost certainly the ingredients of gunpowder," and no other explosive known to scientists is composed of three powders.At this time, saltpeter was produced in Hanzhong, but would shift to Gansu and Sichuan later on. Wei Boyang is considered to be a semi-legendary figure meant to represent a "collective unity", and the Cantong qi was probably written in stages from the Han dynasty to 450 AD.
While it was almost certainly not their intention to create a weapon of war, Taoist alchemists continued to play a major role in gunpowder development due to their experiments with sulfur and saltpeter involved in searching for eternal life and ways to transmute one material into another. Historian Peter Lorge notes that despite the early association of gunpowder with Taoism, this may be a quirk of historiography and a result of the better preservation of texts associated with Taoism, rather than being a subject limited to only Taoists. The Taoist quest for the elixir of life attracted many powerful patrons, one of whom was Emperor Wu of Han. One of the resulting alchemical experiments involved heating 10% sulfur and 75% saltpeter to transform them.
The next reference to gunpowder occurred in the year 300 during the Jin dynasty (266–420).[11] A Taoist philosopher by the name of Ge Hong wrote down the ingredients of gunpowder in his surviving works, collectively known as the Baopuzi ("The Master Who Embraces Simplicity"). The "Inner Chapters" (neipian) on Taoism contains records of his experiments to create gold with heated saltpeter, pine resin, and charcoal among other carbon materials, resulting in a purple powder and arsenic vapours. In 492, Taoist alchemists noted that saltpeter, one of the most important ingredients in gunpowder, burns with a purple flame, allowing for practical efforts at purifying the substance. During the Tang dynasty, alchemists used saltpetre in processing the "four yellow drugs" (sulfur, realgar, orpiment, arsenic t
... keep reading on reddit ➡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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So. This is unexpected. Russell T. Davies will return as Showrunner of Doctor Who. In addition to crafting a whole intriguing new era for our venerable program, he will also get to choose the actor who will portray the Fourteenth Doctor. Which got me thinking. Both of his previous Doctors were played by actors who he had worked with before. So I decided to compile a list of actors with whom Davies has previously collaborated, and might therefore possibly be in contention for the role, provided it hasn't been cast already.
Now, I'm not saying that he will pick definitely one of these names. He could go with someone else entirely, with whom he is unacquainted. I'm simply saying that given his past casting history with the Doctor, I would not be entirely surprised if one of these names is selected for the role. (Although I'm still hoping for Jo Martin.)
Who knows? Maybe he could finally fulfill his desire to cast Russell Tovey or Hugh Grant as the Doctor.
Lastly, I would like state this probably will not be an exhaustive list. If any names have escaped my attention, please feel free to bring it up in the comments.
So, without further ado:
- Emma Thompson (my dream pick for years now)
- T'Nia Miller
- Lydia West
- Jessica Hynes
- Russell Tovey
- Rory Kinnear
- Olly Alexander
- Keeley Hawes
- Stephen Fry
- Joanna Page
- Aidan Gillen
- Tom Burke
- Nina Sosanya
- Gwendoline Christie
- Bethany Black
- Ben Whishaw
- Alex Jennings
- Simon Pegg
- Tamsin Grieg
- Paterson Joseph
- Marc Warren
- Tom Ellis
- Colin McFarlane
- Felicity Jones
- Carey Mulligan
- Colin Salmon
- Daniel Kaluuya
- Gemma Chan
- David Harewood
- Timothy Dalton
- Andrew Garfield
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!
