Connie Hawkins highlights

[dantheman9758]

*EDIT - updated, minor changes

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4Q1L3aDHs"]SOAR - Connie Hawkins tribute (v1.1) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[dantheman9758]

 

[NYC Rebel]

Boys and Girls HS finest!!!



His stepback J.....

Biggest hands the league ever saw....

 

[BrothaZay]

One of the GOATs. Its DISGUSTING what those cac's did to him.

Way better than Oscar Robertson in my eyes

 

[dantheman9758]

Dr. J has him on his all-time team as 6th man capable of playing guard, forward and center
20 Second Timeout: Julius Erving's All-Time Starting Five

In 1968, one season before the NBA finally let him in, his talent was well recognized by professionals and coaches to be in the company of Baylor/Robertson/West/Russell/Chamberlain even though most basketball fans were unaware of him
Because of youthful indiscretions, Connie Hawkins, who - 12.16.68 - SI Vault

I still can't find any of his wingspan measurements but I managed to find that his hands spread 11" thumb to pinky and I have two different sources that describe his hand length, one says 10" the other says 11".

So his hands are:
~10.5" wrist to finger
11" thumb to pinky

Compare to Shaquille O'Neal's:
11" wrist to finger
9" thumb to pinky

His listed height of 6-8 is probably close to his height w/o shoes given the era he played in so that'd be about 3" taller than MJ, or 1 inch shorter than Kevin Durant - he had a big frame for that kind of fluidity. Listed info says 210 on basketball reference, 215 on NBA.com, and sports illustrated 1969 described him as a 219lb NBA rookie. Like Wilt and Bill Russell he was better at Track and Field in his youth than he was at basketball. So he was a decent athlete too.

 

[RedBull]

One of the GOATs. Its DISGUSTING what those cac's did to him.

Way better than Oscar Robertson in my eyes

How can someone be WAY better than Oscar?


BTW, those hands

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Met him when I was 9 years old.

When my aunt used to live in Phoenix back in the day, she worked as a waitress at Dan Majerle's club in down town Phoenix.


She took me and my brother(he was 7) there for dinner one night and a lot of the Suns players were there.Elliot Perry(nikka seemed cracked out)...Majerle(cool, but he had the flu and looked like he was about to die)..etc


We sat right across from Connie Hawkins.My brother had no idea who he was.He just looked at him and said "Are you Wesley Person's dad?"

Hawk started cracking up....."No no no young man"


Overall, he seemed pretty cool

 

[Walt]

I have his autograph in my collection. Him, Pele, and Don Mattingly are my only autographs. He was my uncle's favorite player. He's in my personal top 10 underrated player rankings; as well known as Dr. J is, he's in that group for me too.

dantheman is the best addition to this messageboard in forever. Where the fukk is Mitter? These two cats could go back and forth for days.

 

[dantheman9758]

Just updated the vid, there's a few more clips in there that I found from his old Phoenix Suns HOF highlight clip

 

[dantheman9758]

Can yall imagine the head to head matchup if these two had gone head to head in their primes in the mid 60's

best defensive forward of the time - freak athlete with strength, wrecklessness and a power leap



vs

Hawkins, the smoothest offensive forward - freak athlete with hang time,huge hands and a finesse offensive game

 

[young3000]

One of the GOATs. Its DISGUSTING what those cac's did to him.

Way better than Oscar Robertson in my eyes

how would you know and you never seen either of them play

 

[PortCityProphet]

damn the way he could maneuver the ball with 1 hand
game was smooth as hell too.
just read his wiki thats so fukked up what happened to him. ridiculous.

 

[Majestyx]

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

damn the way he could maneuver the ball with 1 hand
game was smooth as hell too.
just read his wiki thats so fukked up what happened to him. ridiculous.

just read his wiki too. shyt don't even make sense why they went at him so hard