Question for fans of 60s era basketball.

[Psileas]

Paul Arizin was an All Star though

Paul Arizin was. Not the other guy, though.

Hint: Averaged around 5 pts, 4 rebs in his career.

[SHAQisGOAT]

That was like 50 years ago. Hit me back in 50 years and tell me about all the players (from right now) who were great athletes but basically scrubs... It ain't easy.

I wasn't alive back then and I'm not gonna call myself a big expert about it, but I can think of:

Walt Davis
Greg Smith
LeRoy Ellis
Walter Dukes (7 footer)
...
Furthermore, Gus Johnson was a beast of an athlete and much more than that yet he wasn't out there winning MVP's, making all-nba 1st's and whatnot...

Shit, I was just watching this vid the other day, and I see a nice putback dunk by this dude I've never even heard of...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3R7SViJlY&t=13m58s
A big and buff 6'10'', 255+ lbs, center by the name of Bob Christian:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3R7SViJlY&t=12m5s
Not even more than 5 seasons in the league...

Guess only Wilt, Russell or Baylor were great athletes Lots of ignorant people here...

[Psileas]

Herb White (not Smith - post 18)

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...=278907&page=2

[senelcoolidge]

The NBA has always had outstanding athletes. But trying to remember scrubs fro 40 years ago..that's hard unless you were following the league back than. I barely remember some of the athletic scrubs from the 90's and 00's.

[WillC]

LeRoy Ellis comes to mind.

[MavsSuperFan]

No Javale would have been an all-time great if he played then, his athleticism alone would have made him elite back then

[Marchesk]

Gus Johnson doesn't count because he's in the HOF. He's just one of the more forgotten players form that era, like Same Jones.

[pudman13]

Herb White comes to mind, also Helicopter Hentz, who was barely a scrub in the lesser ABA yet was able to tear down two backboards in one game. I'm sure every team had a few---we just don't know who they were because they were failures in the NBA.

Also, I should point out that some of the era's biggest playground legends never played in the NBA for various reasons, in some cases because they had athletic ability but never really learned how to play a team game. There's a reason Jumping Jackie Jackson played on the Globetrotters rather than in the NBA.

[SHAQisGOAT]

No Javale would have been an all-time great if he played then, his athleticism alone would have made him elite back then

Just "another" Walter Dukes...