Comments on: Swen Nater

By: sansho1

sansho1 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:52:39 +0000

26. Did you know that Swen Nater, in terms of something called "Defensive Rebound Percentage", is the greatest defensive rebounder in professional basketball history? Walton is second.

By: El Lay Dave

El Lay Dave — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:14:11 +0000

25. Mel Counts... Mark Eaton...

By: spudrph

spudrph — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:22:06 +0000

24. Chuck Nevitt….Greg Kite…..Mike Smrek…..

I, too, was once a designated fouler.

I wasn’t fast enough to catch the guy, though.

By: Scott Long

Scott Long — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:57:59 +0000

23. Is it too soon to do a whole series on white centers...Henry Finkel, Randy Breuer, Paul Mokeski...

By: Ennui Willie Keeler

Ennui Willie Keeler — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:10:20 +0000

22. BTW, Josh. I joined the overthehill gang myself Monday. After work, I went to some new Irish place next door to work. My brother and a couple of friends showed up. An hour later some of the folks from worked stopped by as well, including the receptionist mentioned in the Carl Morton thread. I think that I was drinking Guinness for five hours straight and some shots were consumed, including a couple of Belfast car bombs. There was an 18 and a half minute gap in my memory were I apparently told that poor girl all sorts of weird kinky things that I wanted to do with her. She’s still talking to me, so maybe it wasn’t that bad.

Left my car at work and went back home with my brother. Hadn’t eaten since noon so I ordered a pizza while we watched the Celtics come back against San Antonio. Actually, I watched the game while he passed out. The pizza took two hours to get delivered because the driver had no cellphone and apparently my intercom was broken. My bro told me that he’d stay the night and give me a ride to work. But he smoked six cigarettes, drank three bottles of my Poland Spring, and jetted at 5.

I couldn’t sleep well myself. The CPAP mask was bugging the hell out of me that night and I was trying unsuccessfully to replay my Watergate tape in my head before I finally yanked the mask off of my head and got a couple of hours shuteye during the dawn.

I wound up walking to work Tuesday. Jonesing for a Pop Tart, I stopped into two gas stations. Neither of them caried them, so I settled for some offbrand stale pastry.

At least you have your wife, Josh.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:20:42 +0000

21. 19 : Yeah, doesn't he look like a guy who other centers around the league must have dreaded playing against? ("Oh, Christ. Nater.") He looks strong, sharp-elbowed, clumsy, unorthodox. Just an all-around black-and-blue factory. Smits was a really potent offensive player. Nater's rebounding numbers are pretty phenomenal, though. I never got to see him play, though, except in his last year, when he was a human victory cigar with the Lakers, so I can't make the call on who was better.

By: El Lay Dave

El Lay Dave — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:15:16 +0000

20. 19 LMAO at the visual of a 7' porn star - "Every 1s a Spinner Babe - Volume 37". Would he need a porn name? Maybe just one name - Sven - would be enough. Dutch Master? Van Gough? Carl Hung? (Not a Karl Hungus reference - he's German.)

By: Scott Long

Scott Long — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:00:35 +0000

19. Superficial points here. In this picture, Nater looks like the most muscular white center I’ve ever seen, almost looking like he might have been on the clear, oh yeah, it was the 70′s…
Also, with the mustache, the sophisticated Dutch good looks, the classic Cali tan… he could have been the greatest porn star of his generation if he would have went that way. A cross between Harry Reems and Eric Edwards.

My vote for greatest dutch center of all-time would be Rik Smits, just edging out Nater.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:20:39 +0000

18. 17 : That's definitely the Washington Bullets, who used to be the Capitol Bullets who used to be the Baltimore Bullets who used to be the Chicago Zephyrs who used to be the Chicago Packers and are now the Washington Wizards playing the San Diego Clippers who used to be the Buffalo Braves and are now the Los Angeles Clippers.

By: Ennui Willie Keeler

Ennui Willie Keeler — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:11:57 +0000

17. 14. was a guess, Josh. I don't really know NBA uniforms from that era, but there is a sign in the pic that says Washington. They could be in Seattle, too, for all I know.