Can You Name the Five Michigan Players Who Have Won NBA Championships?
With the NBA Championship starting Thursday, can you name the five U-M players who have NBA Champiosnhip rings? I couldn't - I got four of the five.
According to my research, here's the list. See how many you guessed:
Bob Harrison (three championships in the 1950s with the Minneapolis Lakers)
Cazzie Russell (1970 with the Knicks)
Mike McGee (two championships with the Lakers, 1982 and 1985)
Glen Rice (2000 with the Lakers)
Juwan Howard (2012 and 2013 with the Miami Heat)
We also had three players who won ABA championships - Craig Dill, John Clawson and Oliver Darden.
The most surprizing thing about this post is that the Knicks have actually won a title
I am amused, and you are correct, that it has been so long. The Knicks were quite the powerhouse when I was dribbling and shooting in the driveway as a wee tyke. One more reason I have no desire to ever see Thomas in the Piston front office.
1970 and 1973. The Willis Reed, Walt "Clyde" Frazier, Dave DeBusschere and Earl "The Pearl" Monroe era (though Pearl was not on the 1970 team). Yeah, I was a little kid then...
So...I came here to name as many as I could (I knew Russell, Rice, and Howard), but you answered the question in the OP. That was...disappointing.
Uhh there is a sslliigghhttt difference between being sponsered by a brand, and playing for and graduating from U of M.
But you do you man...
he forgot the </sarcasm> tag, but honestly, it it really needed?
You do know where Rudy T went to school, right?
Jeopardy would be easy, if you could ask your own questions.
You know what game is really hard? Jeffpardy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g3--WYH8SY
Well, as long as we're using the "'The Fugitive' Would Nail Her" standard of attractiveness, we're setting the bar pretty damned low... :-D
She wasn't that bad looking back when Glen hooked up with her, almost certainly Alaska hot.
And, oh man, that 80's hair...
She's a slight less hot Kelly Kapowski in this pic. Yes, I went there...
As long as the "No Talking" rule is in effect.
"Oooh crayap"
no, but what's the point now?
Thanks for asking?
"Here's a trivia question. I know the answers. And here are the answers too."
Long time reader, first time post. I love trivia and felt a need to register and respond.
The question is former players with NBA Championship rings. Doesn't say it has to have been as a player. Thus, Rudy T should qualify.
Failed first post. I see that WD already noted this.
+1: Courage
Nope I'm stumped. I dont know who the hell from Michigan won an NBA title.
EIGHT different guys went at least one time for a total 18 different selections
You forget that the 1993-94 Houston Rockets had one young Eric Riley.
According to Wikipedia, he was cut early in the season, so he didn't earn a ring.
weird.... Basketball-Reference shows he played down the stretch in April...
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rileyer01/gamelog/1994/
Also, Land of Basketball shows him winning that year.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rileyer01/gamelog/1994/
is that not Riley in street clothing touching the trophy while Otis is holding it up?
also, wikipedia shows that he was on the Rockets Finals roster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993–94_Houston_Rockets_season
Riley got put on IR before the playoffs (I think) so I am not sure if he counts for the playoff roster.
Looks like he did earn a ring.
Riley was on that team (though on the injured list in the playoffs). He was cut the following season (1994-95).
I knew about Juwan Howard, as well as Glen Rice and Mike McGee (it helps being a lifelong Laker fan)
Neither Rice nor McGee were ever really truly comfortable fits in their respective Laker teams - Phil Jackson pretty openly preferred Rick Fox to Rice for the 3-spot because of Foxy's defense and ability to play within the triangle and Rice didn't do himself any favors when his wife openly complained about his lack of shot opportunies in a lineup with peak Shaq and Kobe. McGee gave LA some scoring off the bench and filled in capably as a part-time starter but was also typecast as a sharpshooting reserve wing on a team that also had one Michael Cooper
was first UM player to be in three Final Fours, and Laker GM, was an agent for Kobe, Iguodala, and many others, had to have won at least a 4 % bonus of some NBA championship money.
Here is the list of players from two years ago by school.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/4fyem6/college_basketball_program…
Two time captain at UM. Won NBA titles as a teammate of George Mikan on the MInneapolis Lakers. He won the first NBA finals game on a last second half court shot. Was a very good NBA player, later coached Harvard and is still alive. Stunned I have not heard of him at all. Also scored 139 points in an 8th grade game which is some sort of record,lol.
Sounds like an interview for John U Bacon or Brian. This is all I can find about his personal story. Would love to know about his struggles as a Native American athlete.