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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 --- 84 days ago http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/DownsA529/2008/07/22/My_List_All_Time_Team_
| The countdown on the My List special moves on to team #14, the Denver Nuggets. Here are the best players (in my opinion) from the thin air. Starters: PG: Lafayette Lever: "Fat" was the player assigned to make Denver''s frenetic offense go in the 1980s. Acquired from Portland in 1984, Lever helped direct the Nuggets to the conference finals in his first season there. Lever's best stats years came in the late 80s, where he would have three seasons (1987-89) of near triple-double averages. For a 6 foot 3 guard, he could rebound well (two seasons he averaged 9.3 RPG), and he was a two time All-Star (1988, 1990). For his career, he averaged 13.9 PPG, 6 RPG and 6.2 APG. SG: David Thompson: The original Skywalker was like a shooting star; he burst onto the scene with a flurry, then almost as quickly, he was gone. Thompson was drafted #1 in the NBA draft by the Hawks in 1975, but he decided to accept the Nuggets' offer and jumped to the ABA. In his lone ABA season, Thompson won their ROY award as well as All-Star MVP, and took Denver to the last ABA Finals (losing to the Nets). He then moved with the team to the NBA in 1976, and didn't skip a beat; he averaged over 20 PPG in each of his first five NBA seasons, with a high of 27.2 in 1977-78, as he lost the scoring title to George Gervin on the last day of the season by .07 (the closest race ever for that title). Before injuries ended his career in 1984 (with Seattle by that point), he ha ... |
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