The curious thing is that skinny Otto Moore is saving the Pistons—saving their center position and even saving Lanier from further embarrassment. Who would have thought that . . .
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Reggie Harding: A New Kind of Piston, 1964
Harding still retains some of his arrogance, but it’s not offensive. Sure, he said, he misses playing basketball. “It’s part of me,” he said. But he added: “I’ve still got the ability, and they can’t take that away from me.”
Stan Stutz: The 1940s King of the Running One-Hander
One of the things that impressed me was the wild, one-handed shooting of Stan Stutz, “who had that sallow complexion and would comb his light hair straight back and take one-handers from all over the court.”
Detroit’s Leon The Barber, 1976
The NBA’s heavyweight heckler
From Way Downtown 