Hell no. His best season in the NBA was his first, when he averaged An original member of the Suns Ring of Honor, he was a community representative for the Phoenix franchise for many years after his retirement. You agree that your personal information will be used to send you messages about NBA related products and services, and share your personal information with NBA partners and affiliates so that they can also contact you about products and services that might be of interest to you.
Associated Press. June 17, January 24, J," Hawkins produced his own brand of basketball theater, although he played before decidedly smaller houses.
Gonna miss the Hawk! He didn't play in the NBA until he was 27, the league keeping its distance because of a college point-shaving scandal in New York City while Hawkins was a freshman at Iowa in Hawkins was never directly associated with the scandal, and the principals always contended he had nothing to do with it, but the NBA barred him nonetheless.
Plus, coming from a poor family, no one even thought about trying to get a lawyer to fight it. We just weren't that sophisticated.
Finally, in , then-commissioner J. Walter Kennedy lifted the ban. The Suns, a 1-year-old franchise at the time, lost a coin flip with Milwaukee for the rights to Lew Alcindor that year but won a separate coin flip with Seattle for the rights to Hawkins. People still to this day ask me if I was bitter about that, and I still tell them the same thing. Hell, no. I'm just glad I was able to play. His best season in the NBA was his first, when he averaged But in the mids, the best Hawkins highlights played out in the shadows.
Andrew Wiggins: 'No rush' on long-term extension, 'definitely' wants to be in Minnesota. Hawkins was banished from the University of Iowa after his freshman year, and he was blocked from entering the NBA because of a questionable connection to the central figure in a point-shaving scandal. Gonna miss the Hawk!
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