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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4261416, member: 289"]
I did this a few years back:

Bob Lanier was injured late in the 1970 Eastern regional final vs. Villanova and never got a chance to play in the Final Four, where he would have been matched up against Jacksonville’s Artis Gilmore. I always wondered how their confrontations in the pros went. Using ProBasketballreference.com (game logs), I decided to find out. The player’s team that won the game is in bold.

[B]11/13/76 Lanier 8/17 20p 5r 2b 4f     Gilmore 12/20 30p 15r 4b 5f
12/8/76     Lanier 9/21 24p 12r 1b 3f       Gilmore 7/10 17p 14r 1b 3f[/B]
1/29/77    Lanier 9/?? 22p            Gilmore 11/?? 23p
[B]12/23/77    Lanier 8/?? 24p            Gilmore 5/?? 11p[/B]
1/15/78    Lanier 9/?? 24p            Gilmore 8/?? 19p   
[B]3/19/78    Lanier 6/?? 13p 6f        Gilmore 5/?? 13p
11/3/78    Lanier 9??? 22p            Gilmore 10/?? 24p
11/10/78    Lanier 11??? 27p        Gilmore 14/?? 30p[/B]
2/27/79     Lanier DNP            Gilmore 12/?? 33p
4/8/79    Lanier DNP            Gilmore 8/?? 18p
[B]2/13/80    Lanier 6/?? 15p            Gilmore 3/?? 6p
3/25/80    Lanier 4/?? 13p            Gilmore 5/?? 15p
10/25/80    Lanier 3/?? 8p            Gilmore 5??? 13p
10/28/80    Lanier 5/?? 10p            Gilmore 7/?? 19p[/B]
11/16/80    Lanier 8?? 17p            Gilmore 8/?? 24p
[B]12/27/81    Lanier 2/8 5p 6r 2b 1f        Gilmore 4/5 10p 9r 0b 0f
1/2/82    Lanier 5/8 12p 8r 0b 2f        Gilmore 7/12 20p 8r 2b 4f
2/3/82    Lanier 5/8 16p 6r 1b 4f        Gilmore 5/8 12p 9r 0b 6f
12/19/82    Lanier DNP            Gilmore 7/10 22p 7r 2b 3f[/B]
2/25/84    Lanier 6/9 17p 7r 1b 2f        Gilmore 7/9 25p 10r 2b 2f

With the chaotic NBA schedules, their teams only played 20 times in the 8 years they were both in the NBA. Bob missed three of those games, presumably due to injury. Gilmore missed none, so there were 17 confrontations. Full stats are not available for all those games but I have the points. Bob scored 289 points in those games, an average of 17.0. Artis scored 311, (18.3). For the six games for which complete stats are available, (from late in their careers), Bob had 44 rebounds (7.3) and Artis had 65 (10.8). Bob had 7 blocks and Artis 9 blocks. So Artis seems to have gotten the better of Bob but Bob’s team won 13 of the 17 games, so he went home happy.
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