@PeterVecsey1 @JamesJorge88595 @SergeantMartee @sportingpage @GoodmanHoops Heinsohn was a rookie with Russell & retired in 65, I believe. Only year they failed to win was 58.
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Big Hoss Orr
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Jesus is my Savior. Amber is my wife. Friend to all. Lover of absurdities and absoludacris-ness-es. Just here for the chaos.
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@JamesJorge88595 @SergeantMartee @sportingpage @GoodmanHoops Heinsohn had many more than two as a player and coached two more…as did Sam & KC Jones & Sharman. Satch Sanders started for eight, I believe. McHale & Parish had three.
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Paul Pierce should not be on here.
Fastbreak Hoops@FastbreakHoops5
Celtics Mount Rushmore. Did I get the right four, or is someone getting robbed here?
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@StarmanNJ @80_wrestling I'm not sure anyone loves wrestling more than Leilani. She's always lifting others up, as well.
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@80_wrestling Leilani Kai, not even necessarily for her wrestling, just because she seems like the sweetest person in anything I’ve ever seen of her outside of the ring. ❤️
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Which of these women who competed at the first 2 WrestleManias would you most like to see in the Big Rubber Guys or LJN line: Leilani Kai, Wendi Richter, Fabulous Moolah or Velvet McIntyre?
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@BrianRSolomon My Grandmother told me about Gorgeous George. My Dad told me about The Spoiler.
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Something that helped me comprehend how big of a deal wrestling stars of the distant past were, despite their names having faded over time, was speaking with people born in the early 20th century. These people were not even wrestling fans, but it was amazing who they remembered.
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@SeizeTheNae Greatest- Easily Carson
My personal favorite growing up- Letterman
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Who’s the greatest late-night TV host of all time?
A. Johnny Carson
B. David Letterman
C. Jay Leno
D. Conan O’Brien
E. Arsenio Hall
F. Jon Stewart
G. Jimmy Kimmel
H. Craig Ferguson
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@HopelesHawksFan @BiasedHouston That was when Ralph Sampson got hurt and the rest of the team fell apart in those 80s stretches. They were a finals team in 86 and then everything fell apart. Hakeem was possibly getting traded in 92, but everything changed in 93.
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My faith is greater than anything in my life. 🙏Trust in GOD🙏
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@NickyClamps @CowMFM @WrasslinRyan @davemeltzerWON @MikeGilbert311 I understand it as they are getting a summary of the feedback on AI. Not "please give me ideas for Raw tomorrow". I wouldn't rule out them ACTUALLY doing that, but I didn't see that as confirmation of that here.
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I reported this months ago and everyone denied it.
Self Made AO 💫@KXNGAO
TKO President and COO Mark Shapiro confirms that Triple H uses AI to write storylines: “Nick Khan and Triple H are using AI for storylines with the WWE,” Shapiro said. “What’s resonating? What superstars are resonating? In what pockets of the country are they resonating? That helps us with, obviously, our content, our editorial, our creative, our mapping, our touring, and of course, maximizing revenue and getting our product out to the fans most in need of it.” (Post Wrestling)
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Without saying your age…
Who was the coach of your favorite NBA team when you started watching basketball ?
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Who was the center of your favorite NBA team when you started watching basketball?
I’ll start: Patrick Ewing
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@BrianRSolomon @ChrisBergstro14 @BWLH_ With the NBA, I just saw George Mikan full game highlights for the first time recently. I had looked everywhere years back, so there's some unearthed stuff probably still out there.
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@ChrisBergstro14 @BWLH_ It wasn’t considered important enough to preserve. And there is actually less classic sports preserved on film than you think, especially pre-1960s.
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One point you had three channels in America: ABC, NBC and CBS. Did pro wrestling ever air nationally in the 50s? It was regional and syndicated until Turner put on NWA/JCP for cheap programming on TBS. AWA was cheap programming for ESPN. Vince and Hogan are the BC/AD of wrestling
Jonathan Snowden@JESnowden
Wrestling was a huge spectator sport in America before Hulk Hogan was born. Before Hulk Hogan's FATHER was born. I've got to get my Gotch book out to rescue the history of this great sport from the philistines and weird documentaries.
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@BrianRSolomon @ChrisBergstro14 @BWLH_ I went through a phase where I tried to find as much old NBA stuff as possible, and there is most definitely a scarcity pre-70s. I was happy to find a lot of Gorgeous George matches, tho. Seems like Chicago wrestling did the best preserving things.
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Name a wrestler that is from your STATE…
I’ll start… hacksaw Jim Duggan
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@Axel_Foley13 @allan_cheapshot My grandma knew Gorgeous George, and was not a wrestling fan. He was a huge deal, but that was so long ago.
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@allan_cheapshot No1 is denying pre Hogan wrestling history. But ask any casual fan or hell any person on planet earth who Rikidozen, El Santos, Frank Gotch Gorgeous George etc…they wouldn’t have a clue. Wrestling became main stream n quadrupled its audience becuz of VM and HH. Non fans know HH.
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The Hogan debate is exposing how badly WWE has conditioned wrestling history.
Hogan mattered enormously. But if your take is that successful pro wrestling effectively began in 1984, you are not discussing history. You are repeating the corporate myth.
Let me explain..
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@CoachJohnsonKF @allan_cheapshot Big Daddy beat him to that in England. But internationally I would say that's accurate.
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@allan_cheapshot Can an argument be made that Hogan was the first to make wrestling accessible, on a broader scale than scale, to children?
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@davemeltzerWON I remember my Grandmother telling me about seeing Gorgeous George on TV in Texas. Also Freddy Blassie on Dick Van Dyke.
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No more time to waste. For those debating or aguing, read Yohe's book on wrestling (Strangler Lewis bio but it covers in depth wresting through the 50s), Johnson's book on Londos, Muchnick's book on Rikidozan coming out, you'll learn so much about history of the business and popularity and mainstream appeal.
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Without saying Elvin Hayes, Earl Monroe, Wes Unseld, Rex Chapman or Juwan Howard, name a Bullet…
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@80sWrestling_ Always liked her! What's crazy is if she was alive today, I believe ahe would be in her 90s.
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@TitoSanTanaChez Hogan I'd put #1 purely as a wrestler. From the 80s and early 90s to the NWO...that's impact beyond anything we've seen. Guys like Austin & Rock were allowed to be what they were because of WCW smacking WWF around.
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Which number was the Most Impactful to Wrestling?
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@TitoSanTanaChez Once you include Vince, it becomes a battle for 2nd place. He completely broke what wrestling was and recreated it in his own image. Running everyone else out of business afforded him that liberty. For better and worse.
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How many championships have your favorite teams won in your lifetime???
(NHL, MLB, NFL, NBA)
I’ll Start: 9
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