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3 basketball players have accomplished these 4 things, name them

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  1. pacertom

    pacertom Member

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    won at least one NBA championship
    won at least one NCAA Division I championship
    won at least one Olympic goal medal with the USA basketball team
    won at least one high school state championship

    One is fairly obvious and is a hall-of-famer,
    while the other two are a little more obscure (though one of them is also enshrined in the Hall)
     
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    Magic is one of them
     
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    Bird.

    Isiah Thomas.
     
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    Could have been Christian Laettner if he stuck around with the Heat for another season.
     
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  5. heypartner

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    Magic for sure
    Isiah lost to Aguirre/Westinghouse at state finals in Illinois, otherwise he is in
    Wade also lost in the State Finals of Illinois to Eisenhower HS

    So, I'm going to guess
     
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    John Lucas
     
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    ^ meant Jerry Lucas
     
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    Magic Johnson
    Jerry Lucas
    Quinn Buckner
     
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    Brian Scalabrine
     
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  10. pacertom

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    ^^^ this is it!
     
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    Jim Barnes -- Texas Wesleyan FTW
     
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    Texas Western, I mean.

    Just about to guess Buckner, too.

    pacertom, are we sure Barnes did not win a HS championship. If he didn't, might have been because of racial segregation...oh well.
     
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    Buckner won twice at Thornridge HS. First Chicago public league school to ever win the IL state championship...then went to win with Kent Bentson at IU.
     
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    The only one I'm sure of is magic
     
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    Jim Barnes did win NCAA (Texas Western) & NBA titles (Celtics) and Olympic gold in 1964.

    I have not been able to determine if he won a state title in high school though. I know he went to Stillwater HS in Stillwater OK.
     
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    He is from Arkansas. Went to same HS as Joe Barry Carroll. I'm going to guess that his HS was not allowed to play in the state championship.
     
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    btw: cool trivia. thx
     
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  18. pacertom

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    Technically Jim Barnes is also a correct answer.

    the HS story:

    http://www.morgancountycitizen.com/?q=node/12270

    In high school he moved from Arkansas to Oklahoma. He led his team to an undefeated season, but...

    "the other schools and districts felt they were at a disadvantage. How could a giant of a basketball player just suddenly appear in Stillwater? Something must be foul. So they pressed the Oklahoma Athletic Association to make Stillwater forfeit all their wins, alleging that Jim Barnes had been illegally recruited to play. After the penalty was negotiated, Stillwater High was allowed to compete in the state basketball tournament-even with a record of 0-22. But, they had to play without big and talented Jim Barnes."

    Nevertheless, they won the state title without him

    However, since he was there for all of the regular season and was probably unfairly dismissed for racial reasons, I would certainly say he won a high school championship.
     
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    Kareem
     
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