Curated category
NBA broadcasters
- Jerry WestJerry Alan West was born on the 28th of May, 1938, into a poor household in Chelyan, West Virginia. He grew up as the fifth of six children to Cecil Sue West…
- Isiah ThomasIsiah Lord Thomas III arrived in Chicago on the 30th of April 1961. He grew up as the youngest of nine children on the city's West Side.
- Bill RussellWilliam Felton Russell was born on the 12th of February 1934, in West Monroe, Louisiana. The town operated under strict segregation laws that dictated every…
- Chuck DalyCharles Jerome Daly was born in Kane, Pennsylvania on the 20th of July 1930. He grew up in a small town where basketball became his first love and later his…
- Charles BarkleyCharles Wade Barkley was born on the 20th of February, 1963 in Leeds, Alabama. He grew up as the first black baby to be born at a segregated, all-white town…
- Scottie PippenScottie Maurice Pippen Sr. was born on the 25th of September 1965, in Hamburg, Arkansas, to Ethel and Preston Pippen. His father worked at a paper mill while…
- Magic JohnsonEarvin Johnson Jr. was born on the 14th of August 1959 in Lansing, Michigan. His father worked at General Motors while his mother cleaned homes and prepared…
- Moses MaloneMoses Eugene Malone Sr. was born on the 23rd of March 1955 in Petersburg, Virginia. He grew up as an only child raised primarily by his mother Mary.
- Shaquille O'NealShaquille Rashaun O'Neal entered the world on the 6th of March 1972, in Newark, New Jersey. His biological father was Joe Toney, a high school basketball…
- Wilt ChamberlainWilton Norman Chamberlain was born on the 21st of August 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up as the sixth of nine children to Olivia Ruth and…
- Bob CousyBob Cousy fell out of a tree when he was twelve years old. The fall broke his right hand and forced him to play left-handed until it healed.
- Dan IsselDan Issel grew up in Batavia, Illinois, where his backyard bordered that of Ken Anderson. Anderson would later become a National Football League quarterback…
- Rick BarryRichard Barry was born on the 28th of March 1944 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He grew up nearby in Roselle Park, an urban middle-class community where his…
- Jay TrianoHoward James Triano arrived in the world on the 21st of September 1958. He grew up in Tillsonburg and later moved to Niagara Falls, Ontario.
- Julius ErvingJulius Winfield Erving II was born on the 22nd of February 1950 in East Meadow, New York. He moved to Roosevelt at age 13 and attended Roosevelt High School.
- Pete MaravichPeter Press Maravich was born on the 22nd of June 1947 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. This steel town sat near Pittsburgh and shaped his early years.
- Red AuerbachArnold Jacob Auerbach arrived in the world on the 20th of September 1917. He grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of four children born to Marie and…