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Message: [QUOTE="Demo Square, post: 4102385, member: 10861"] Hey Improviser, I never saw Spider Hesford, but I saw Bill Bradley a lot. He was my hero as a person & player - a peer in the early 60's. Every mother wanted their son to be like Bill Bradley. And this was in the age when most college hoops players actually went to class & graduated. Ha! Saw many of his games at both Princeton & "The Garden." I vaguely remember watching that UConn-Princeton game you mentioned on black & white TV. But can't remember Hesford's great D on Dollar Bill. Or, maybe Brads just had a poor shooting game. Where is Spider now? Bradley was the best all-around college player & scorer of his time, in between Oscar & Kareem. Nobody worked harder to improve his game & below-average athleticism. People today forget that Bradley was a such legend in college - & such a great team player in the NBA for ten years on the Knicks two championship teams. And, Bradley became a Rhodes Scholar, US Senator & Presidential candidate in spite of being a basketball player. Ha! Spider Hesford! From back when there were "real' natural characters in the game, when hoops was a cult for tall kids. Princeton had a similar body type 'character' guy to Spider Hesford named Ken Shank. He was a three ppg. guy who would surprise everyone & have a really decent game now & then. Ken was legally blind, wearing Coke-bottle, heavy-framed glasses on court! He was a 4.0 student - became a famous cardiologist & surgeon later. Arms down to his calves like Spider, Shank was really hairy all over - the type you never wanted to be guarded by. And, he could jump through the roof! Guys like Spider & Shank are no longer a part of today's college basketball. They are discouraged early NOT to play this American game today. We need more characters like them on the courts of life. alohachris [/QUOTE]

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