Bob Lanier Rewind ... Lester Rowe

[stoversghost]

Look. I'm the biggest friggin' Lanier fan there is. When that little bug-eyed, frog-faced dork, David Stern, announced the NBA's all-time top 50 players in '96 and Lanier wasn't on it I went berzerk. Someday I'll reprint the letters I sent to that little sqeaky-voiced, jowly-necked, nasal voiced momma's boy. James friggin' Worthy and not Lanier? David Robinson and not Lanier? Ewing and not Lanier? Come on, you little maggot, Mr. Commissioner. www.nndb.com/honors/953/000109626/

I think naming the new boards after Bob is a great thing. A long time coming. But it has to be recognized that there's a little salt that goes along with the sugar:

I don't know if it has to do with the Donovan family or with Wiese or with the Big Man himself, but in the 70s and 80s Lanier could've gone to any highschool in Buffalo or Detroit and said, "Young man, you're going to St. Bonaventure" and he didn'd do it, for one reason or another.

How could Lester Rowe not go to Bonaventure? The better Sheehey brother who went to UVA? Lanier could've made it happen.

I love Bob Lanier, but it's not all peaches and cream.

[OceanStateBonnie]

What to Donovan and Wiese have to do with what your point is?

[bonaman54]

Hey Stoversghost don't hold back how do you really feel about David Stern.

[amishbonnie]

I can't imagine that Larry Weise or any member of the "Donovan family" would interfere with a helping hand from Bob Lanier. You have to remember that during the 70's and 80's Lanier was for the most part away from the Buffalo scene.