Defensive Game
Active defender who used his length to disrupt passing lanes and contest shots. Not a primary defensive identity player but contributed meaningfully on that end.
Landas ng Karera
Phoenix Suns
1969-1973
Si Cornelius Lance "Connie" Hawkins ay isang American professional basketball player. Isang alamat sa mga playground ng New York City, si "the Hawk" sana ay maglalaro ng basketball para sa Iowa Hawkeyes ngunit hindi makatarungang nadawit sa isang point-shaving scandal na nagresulta sa pagpapatalsik sa kanya mula sa paaralan bilang isang freshman at epektibong na-blackball mula sa NBA. Nakahanap si Hawkins ng kanlungan sa Pittsburgh Rens ng American Basketball League, kung saan niya napanalunan ang 1961 league MVP bago tuluyang nabuwag ang liga. Naglaro siya ng apat na taon para sa sikat na exhibition team na Harlem Globetrotters bago siya makapaglaro sa American Basketball Association kasama ang Pittsburgh Pipers noong 1967. Napanalunan niya ang unang league MVP award sa pamamagitan ng pag-a-average ng 26.8 points at pinangunahan ang koponan sa ABA championship.
Defensive Game
Active defender who used his length to disrupt passing lanes and contest shots. Not a primary defensive identity player but contributed meaningfully on that end.
Intangibles
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Connie Hawkins was kept out of the NBA for eight years by a wrongful banishment. When he finally arrived in Phoenix at age 27, he still made four All-Star teams. The full story of #42.
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Los Angeles Lakers
1973-1975
Atlanta Hawks
1975-1976
High basketball intelligence that informed his creative finishing, passing, and decision-making. His understanding of angles and space was part of what made him so difficult to guard.
Personal na Buhay at Pamilya
Kalagayan
Married
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Labas ng Court
Connection to Brooklyn community programs
Advocate for players wrongfully treated by league institutions
Alam Mo Ba?
Hawkins was so dominant on the New York City playground circuit as a teenager that NBA legends who played against him in those games routinely described him as the most gifted player they had ever seen — a consensus opinion from people who had seen everyone.
The NBA formally apologized to Hawkins and settled his lawsuit for $1.3 million in 1969, acknowledging that the blacklisting was unjust and that his career had been irreparably harmed by an association he had no real part in.
Hawkins is considered one of the first players to truly hang in the air and palm the basketball in the ways that later became associated with Julius Erving and Michael Jordan — a pioneering physical genius whose innovations came before the sport was ready to see them.
Despite losing his prime years to the wrongful banishment, Hawkins still managed to make four NBA All-Star teams after age 27 — a testament to his extraordinary natural gifts that even years of stolen career could not fully diminish.
Mga Parangal sa Karera
Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (1992)
4x NBA All-Star (1970-1973)
ABA All-Star (1968, 1969)
NBA 50th Anniversary Team (1996)
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