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First, the LA Lakers game last night:
Wow, look at the famous LA Lakers that are not part of this elite three-man group!
So, in his first full season (?) with the LA Lakers Luca makes the elite three-man group that includes Jerry West.
Elgin Baylor? Wiki. From the 1960–61 to the 1962–63 seasons, Baylor averaged 34.8, 38.3, and 34.0 points per game, respectively. On November 15 of the 1960–61 season, Baylor set an NBA scoring record when he scored 71 points in a victory against the New York Knicks, while also grabbing 25 rebounds. In doing so, Baylor became the first NBA player to score more than 70 points in a game, breaking his own NBA record of 64 points that he had set the previous November. Baylor held the record until 1962, when Chamberlain scored 100 points.
Unless I missed it, the wiki article does not reference Jerry West and Elgin Baylor being the only two LA Lakers (at the time) holding the 50-point record for the LA Lakers.
Now, back to Luca and the Dallas Mavericks:
Mark Cuban's reaction to the trade:
Most painful data points for me while posting this note:
- I don't follow the NBA particularly closely, but I watch a lot of sports, and I don't recall ever hearing Elgin Baylor's name, but I've heard Jerry West's name more times than I've heard the song, "Choosin Texas";
- the two US senators representing the state of West Virginia in 1959 when Elgin Baylor was not allowed to stay at same hotel as his team: Jennings Randolph and Robert C. Byrd; US president? Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- The "civil rights" issue in the US even as late as after WWII and extending through the 1960s and to great extent, even today.
- it's hard to believe but "Blacks" were not allowed to vote until 1965.
- an AI query this date: AI did not consider "blacks rights to vote" as a "domestic issue" in the Nixon-Kennedy debates. Say what? But AI gets their data from billions (trillions?) of public sources; Eisenhower may have been correct in his civil rights approach, but if so, sad "day" for the US. Even JFK was lukewarm to championing the issue.
