George Gervin - The Iceman
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George "The Iceman" Gervin (born April 27, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is a retired American professional basketball player; a shooting guard for the American Basketball Association's (ABA) Virginia Squires and San Antonio Spurs and the National Basketball Association's (NBA) San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls. Gervin averaged at least 14 points in all 14 of his ABA and NBA seasons, and finished with an NBA career average of 26.2 points per game. Despite his lack of defensive recognition, Gervin retired with the second-most blocks of any NBA guard.
His first scoring crown, which took place in 1978, was one of the most memorable moments in NBA history. He defeated David Thompson by seven hundredths of a point (27.22 to 27.15). Although Thompson came up with a memorable performance for the last game of the regular season, scoring 73 points, Gervin maintained his slight lead by scoring 63 points (including an NBA-record 33 in the second quarter) in a loss in his last game of the season. With the scoring crown in hand, he sat out some of the third, and all of the fourth quarter. Gervin went on to lead the NBA in scoring average three years in a row from 1978 to 1980 (with a high of 33.1 points per game in 1979-80), and again in 1982. Prior to Michael Jordan, Gervin had the most scoring titles of any guard in league history.
His trademark shot was the finger roll, a shot where one rolls the basketball along his or her fingertips. While others mimicked this style when shooting layups, Gervin was known to "finger roll" from as far as the free throw line.
3x ABA All-Star, 7x All-NBA Team, 9x NBA All-Star, NBA All-Star MVP (1980), NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.
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The King of the FingerRoll was called THE Iceman because he never sweat
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DURANT!
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thumbs up if u have/had his poster
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Well Kevin durant is fitting right in as the next ice man
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I remember those days....when shorts were shorts and socks went to your knees...good times...
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lebron did it
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@JAYSKILLZ777 well a lot of the older guards who can't easily dunk anymore use it, not lost, just decreased in usage
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@JAYSKILLZ777 lebron
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i used to finger roll from the free throw line. now that's a finger roll!!
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Smoooothest player ever.
SAMRAM29 1 year ago 26
lebron sent me here
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