Trivia question

[tornado]

What Bradley Brave went on after his days on the hilltop ...
to score 72 points in a single game professionally?

I will offer hints but don't look until you've offered at least one guess...

[tornado]

he played in the NBA and also had pro games (not NBA) of 66, 63, 62, 61, and 59 points!

[BU Bill]

Mitchell Anderson?

[sam hannam]

How about Chet Walker?

[patrick_o'brian]

Gonna have to agree with bu bill. JJ or possibly AP

[tornado]

nope - he played for the Celtics and had a law enforcement nickname...

http://pbarecordsoddities.blogspot.com/2013_08_01_archive.html

http://pbarecordsoddities.blogspot.com/2013/09/1988-pba-season-records.html

The Sheriff- David Thirdkill

[sam hannam]

Boy, I wouldn't have guessed that it was the Sheriff.

[tornado]

Third was and STILL is a scoring legend in the Phillipines Basketball League...
I don't know of any other past Brave who amassed those kinds of scoring totals at any level of professional play.

[BU Bill]

Mitchell Anderson was a tremendous player in his years in Italy. He eventually became known as "The Michael Jordan of Italy" because of his high scoring and championships. Can you find his scoring numbers? I am sure he put up some high scoring games there, too.

[Da Coach]

There is no information on David Thirdkill's whereabouts since he finished his pro career in the Phillippines. However, here are a couple interesting articles about Mitchell Anderson-

Chicago Tribune article from 1990 about Mitchell. It reports that he was one of the best players in Europe and averaged about 30 points per game in back to back years. He said then that he was not interested in trying to get back to the NBA because he was beloved in his city, and was happy, successful, and was playing 40 minutes a game and earning much more than he could have earned in the NBA.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-04-16/sports/9002020251_1_anderson-italian-basketball-league-roberto-baggio

And this article from the Bradley Hilltopics magazine in 2006-

http://lydia.bradley.edu/hilltopics/06spring/sports/

[KillerB]

Because it's never wrong.. from Wikipedia:


David Thirdkill
Small forward / Shooting guard
Born
April 12, 1960 (age 53)
St. Louis, Missouri

Listed height
6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)

Listed weight
195 lb (88 kg)


High school
Soldan (St. Louis, Missouri)

College
Southern Idaho CC (1978??“1979)
Bradley (1979??“1982)



NBA draft

1982 / Round: 1 / Pick: 14th overall



Selected by the Phoenix Suns



Pro playing career

1982??“1996



Career history



1982??“1983

Phoenix Suns



1983??“1984

Detroit Pistons



1985

Milwaukee Bucks



1985

San Antonio Spurs



1985??“1986

Boston Celtics



1986??“1987

Tanduay Rhum Masters (Philippines)



1988

Purefoods TJ Hotdogs (Philippines)



1987??“1988

Rochester Flyers (CBA)



1989

Virtus Roma (Italy)



1989??“1990

Chorale Roanne Basket (France)



1991??“1994

Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel)



1994??“1995

Hapoel Holon (Israel)



1995??“1996

Bnei Herzelia (Israel)



Career highlights and awards



NBA champion (1986)



Stats at Basketball-Reference.com


David Thirdkill (born April 12, 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA) is a retired American basketball player who was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 1st round (15th overall) of the 1982 NBA Draft.[1] A 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) small forward from the College of Southern Idaho and Bradley University, Thirdkill played in five NBA seasons from 1982 to 1987. Nicknamed "The Sheriff",[1] he played for the Suns, Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs and Boston Celtics. He earned a championship ring with the 1985-86 Celtics.

In his NBA career, Thirdkill played in 179 games and scored a total of 510 points.

In 1987, Thirdkill played in a tournament (Open Conference) for the Tanduay team in the Philippine Basketball Association and won the championship aside from being named "Best Import" of the conference. He returned for another conference in 1988, this time for the newly formed Purefoods team, which he led to another finals appearance. Thereafter, he played in Italy for Virtus Roma, in France for Chorale Roanne Basket and most notably in Israel for a spell of five years, finally retiring in 1996.

[tornado]

Here's another flashback story about the great basketball players in the history of Argentina...
and prominently mentioned are BOTH Barney Mines & Willie Scott...


here's the autotranslated version

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://neconaranja.info/parte-de-nuestra-historia/&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522barney%2Bmines%2522%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1536%26bih%3D776%26tbs%3Dqdr:m

here's the original article

http://www.ecosdiariosweb.com.ar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23187:estadounidenses-en-necochea&catid=45:deportes&Itemid=26

[tornado]

Some guy plans to do a ranking of all the best college players from Canada in history...

FWIW...
Bradley's Jerome Robinson & James Gillingham are on his list but he has yet to arrange them according to his ranking as he is awaiting reader input.

http://curtisjphillips.tripod.com/frozenhoops/