OT: Neat fact about former Syracuse Nat Dolph Schayes

[Upstate]

He is tied for the most ever Christmas Day NBA appearances at 13 with Kobe, Shaq and Earl Monroe, though Kobe will pass him this year. And as everyone knows, Dolph is Jewish. Happy Hanukkah

 

[RoysRunts]

Youngest Player to play in the NCAA Tournament

 

[sutomcat]

Youngest Player to play in the NCAA Tournament

Good one.

More Dolph trivia:

First player in NBA history to score 15,000 points. When he retired, he was the leading scorer in the history of the NBA, played a league record 1059 games and held the record for most consecutive games played (706, done between 1952 and 1961).

 

[Eric15]

One more little known Dolph Schayes fact: he has made love to over 30,000 women, shattering Wilt Chamberlain's human record of 20,000.

 

[DNABB5]

People really have no clue what a great player he was. When Dean Smith played in the Dome in the 1997 NCAA's in Cuse, I went and saw their practice and noticed Dolph and spoke with him for 20 minutes or so about how much the game has changed and stuff along those lines. I told him how my father told me stories about the smoky war memorial and the Nationals. He seemed pleased that a "kid" knew who he was, and when I went back to the group of other SU(ESF) students there, no one else knew who I was talking to.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

One more little known Dolph Schayes fact: he has made love to over 30,000 women, shattering Wilt Chamberlain's human record of 20,000.

Does Danny know who his real mother is?

 

[RandygoCuse]

Great slide show on Jewish athletes. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mu...nt.jewish.athletes/content.1.html?eref=sircrc

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Youngest Player to play in the NCAA Tournament

My Dad was in the same class as him at DeWitt Clinton HS. A lot of that class left school early in 1944. My dad joined the Navy at the age of 17. Schayes, of course, went to NYU. Amazing talent came out of that high school. Hoop players such as Nate Archibald, Ricky Sobers, Tom Henderson and Butch Lee. Other alumni such as Sugar Ray Robinson, Neil Simon, Ralph Lauren, Paddy Chayefski, Richard Rodgers, Burt Lancaster, Eddie Lopat, Ozzie Virgil Sr, Charles Rangel, Sherwood Schwartz, Robert Klein, Johnny Most, Tracy Morgan, Stan Lee, William Kunstler, Judd Hirsch, Don Adams, etc. Not sure if it still is but at one time it was the largest high school in the country.

 

[Eric15]

Does Danny know who his real mother is?

I mean, I pretty much have to make a Laurie Fine joke here, don't I?

 

[alibrat66]

Good one.

More Dolph trivia:

First player in NBA history to score 15,000 points. When he retired, he was the leading scorer in the history of the NBA, played a league record 1059 games and held the record for most consecutive games played (706, done between 1952 and 1961).

Great guy and an awesome player. I attended almost every Nats game as a kid. Was a joy to watch. He got beaten up every game he played, and he never backed away.

 

[realorange]

I mean, I pretty much have to make a Laurie Fine joke here, don't I?

Regarding a Hall of Famer, kind of tasteless.

 

[FreakTalksAboutSU]

Another neat fact...he was my landlord when I attended SU and lived on Euclid Ave...