A Sea Of Red

Ok I am TOTALLY stealing this from ESPN Radio, but it was a great list. For those who DON"T know Mt Rushmore is where there are the faces of four US presidents carved into the side of a mountain. But since it is Basketball , what FIVE faces would you carve into a HOOPS Mt Rushmore? I have added two other categories as well so there would be like 3 Mt Hoopmores. The NBA is tough, there are so many options that you are BOUND to leave someone off that should be on. The college one may show some conference bias for some, and the Small school to NBA one takes some realy hoops nerdery. Have fun and here are my categories and lists. They don't have to be one player per position, you can have 5 centers if you want, just pick five

NBA:
Oscar Robertson - Mr Triple Double
MJ - Even without the refs help, he was pretty good!
Bill Russell - Titles as a player and coach and player/coach
Dr J - The Afro and "normalization" of the Dunk
George Mikan - They made the lane wider for him (and then again for Wilt) and he was the first superstar and post player.

I know, no Magic, Bird, Wilt, or Kareem, but what can you do, there is only so much!

College: (GREAT College players, maybe not so great Pro Players)

Pete Maravich - 30+ a game average w/out the 3 point line. No Brainer
Ralph Sampson - 3 Time Player of the Year
Steve Alford - The epitome of a college player
Lew Alcindor - UCLA Dynasty, He caused Rules to be changed.
Christian Laetner - All time winningest NCAA Tournament player

Left off - Thompson - NC State, Walton - UCLA, Robinson - Navy

SMALL COLLEGE (Preferable non D 1 4 year schools but small D1 ok)

Jerome Kersey - Longwood
Terry Porter - Wisconsin Stevens Point
Scottie Pippen - Cent Arkansas
Dennis Rodman - Cant remeber
Ben Wallace - Viginia Union

Left off - Kevin Duckworth, Jack Sickma

You should add a coaches category.

College Hoops Coaches:
Bobby Knight
Dean Smith
John Wooden
Adolph Rupp

Fumblerooskies wrote:College Hoops Coaches:
Bobby Knight
Dean Smith
John Wooden
Adolph Rupp

Claire Bee would be the fifth.

Bee's teams won 95 percent of their games from 1931 to 1951, including 43 in a row from 1935 to 1937.

His contributions to the game of basketball include the 1-3-1 zone defense, the three-second rule and the 24-second shot clock in the NBA.

The Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award is awarded every year to a coach who makes an outstanding contribution to the game of college basketball...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Bee

I don't know how you can take Bird off the college list if you don't have him in your NBA list. Of course I'll make that a non-issue ...

• Cousy
  Chamberlain
  Robertson
  Bird
  Jordan

Yeah, I know some are a reach and it liked to kill me to leave off Magic & Russell. But let's just say I'm taking the contrarian path. As for college taking thre NBA list out of consideration:

• Lucas
  Alcindor
  Maravich
  Sampson
  Magic

Magic was only there two years...he cannot be on the college team.

I'll go the ACC Mt Rushmore:
Thompson
Sampson
Laetner
Ford

blwall1416 wrote:Claire Bee would be the fifth.

Bee's teams won 95 percent of their games from 1931 to 1951, including 43 in a row from 1935 to 1937.

His contributions to the game of basketball include the 1-3-1 zone defense, the three-second rule and the 24-second shot clock in the NBA.

The Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award is awarded every year to a coach who makes an outstanding contribution to the game of college basketball...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Bee

His protegee Knight made the list so I'll buzz past Bee. But I am going to overlook Phog Allen's influence on Dean & Rupp and make him my 5th.

How about a high school one?

Moses Malone
Kobe
Kevin Garrnet
Me
?

scuzdriver wrote:How about a high school one?

Moses Malone
Kobe
Kevin Garrnet
Me
?

If your going to do this - you might not want to leave out James. I thin Garnet is a better choice the Garrnet - Garrnet was a little overrated at 5'3"

One r and 2 t's guys. Garnett.

prototype wrote:

scuzdriver wrote:How about a high school one?

Moses Malone
Kobe
Kevin Garrnet
Me
?

If your going to do this - you might not want to leave out James. I thin Garnet is a better choice the Garrnet - Garrnet was a little overrated at 5'3"

oops, King James! sorry for the spelling, as I get older my spelling skills are rapidly decreasing. So Moses, Kobe, Kevin, LeBron and Me round out the top 5!

Me Too!!

OK...
...what about a BIG SOUTH Mt Rushmore?

Doug Day
Julius Nwoso
Larry Blair
Torrell Martin

Richard Hamilton. One of the few (or maybe only) people to win an national championship at the Highschool, College, and NBA levels.
Robert Horry. 7 Championships and none of them were with the 60s Celtics.


Ok, maybe not either of them.

SLY - As a hoosier it was hard to leave Bird off, and if he were swaped for Laetner I would be ok with that. As for the Coaching one, which I am assuming College I would say:

Hank Iba - Can't believe he was left off
Wooden - Enough Said
Smith -
Knight
Rupp

HS to NBA:

Malone
Kobe
Garnett
Shawn Kemp (He went to Juco but didn't play)
Jermain Oneal

No one wants a crack at the Small School to NBA?

Didn't Malone go to Louisiana Tech? or am I confusing that with his daughter. The one that he knows.

Moses Malone went straight from high school to NBA.

Well, I guess that just shows you how old I am vs haize.

Karl Malone went to LaTech.

right, I was thinking of one malone, he was thinking of the other.

A couple of small school guys jump to mind in my boy Calvin Murphy from Buffalo and Robert Parrish from Centenary.

Tyler Baker
Rell Porter
Tim Layer
Pat Garrity
Greg Ostertag


There.

Sly Fox wrote:A couple of small school guys jump to mind in my boy Calvin Murphy from Buffalo and Robert Parrish from Centenary.

You're in the zip code sly, but Calvin played his college ball for Niagra.

VIVA....NIAGARA!

Hot girl mount rushmore:

Jessica Alba
Jessica Simpson
Carrie Underwood
Samantha Steele
Kim Kardashian