Answer: Shane Battier Shane Battier won just about every college basketball award imaginable, including leading the Duke Blue Devils to the national championship in 2001. He also won a couple of NBA Championships as a member of the Miami Heat in 2012 and 2013.
Answer: Antoine Walker In the earlier days of NBA-endorsed videogames, before EA's "NBA Live" franchise was eclipsed by "NBA 2K", the Boston Celtic's Antoine Jamison being featured on the cover of "NBA Live 99" was a big deal.
Answer: Sam Perkins Sam "Big Smooth" Perkins, who played in the NBA from 1984 to 2001, was perhaps the first center who had a legitimate three-point shot.
Answer: Seattle SuperSonics Vin Baker and Gary Payton, both players on the Seattle SuperSonics at the time, were also members of the 2000 US Olympic basketball team.
Answer: Spain In addition to being stars in the NBA during the early part of the 21st century, the Gasol brothers are also mainstays of the Spanish national basketball team.
Answer: Jay-Z Jay-Z sold the small amount of the Nets he owned so that he could become an agent for NBA players rather than an owner, as being both simultaneously is against league rules.
Answer: Kwame Brown Despite going on to have a 12-year NBA career as a player and headlining a weak draft class, Kwame Brown is still considered by many pundits to be a bust due to being drafted so high yet never living up to the hype of a number-one pick.
Answer: Bill Russell Bill Russell has been called 'the winningest player in the history of professional sports' due to winning 11 NBA Championships as a member of the Boston Celtics. And what makes Russell's achievement even more outstanding is that he won all 11 championships within his 13-year professional playing career, with the first win happening in his rookie year. Russell spent his entire professional playing career with the Boston Celtics.
Answer: Trae Young Iverson's impressive 1997 feat of scoring at least 35 points in two consecutive as a rookie was not accomplished again until Trae Young did so in February of 2019.
