Defensive Game
Elite two-way player who controlled games defensively through positioning, toughness, and anticipation. Underrated defender who anchored championship-level defenses.
Parcours de Carrière
Milwaukee Hawks
1954-1955
Bob Pettit est une légende du basketball et l'une des figures les plus emblématiques de l'histoire des Atlanta Hawks. Formé à LSU. Son héritage continue d'inspirer des générations de fans et de joueurs à travers le monde.
Defensive Game
Elite two-way player who controlled games defensively through positioning, toughness, and anticipation. Underrated defender who anchored championship-level defenses.
Intangibles
Among the highest IQ players of the early NBA — understood positioning, shot selection, and opponent tendencies at a level that produced back-to-back MVP awards.
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Bob Pettit scored 50 points in Game 6 to win the 1958 NBA championship — the only title in franchise history. His #9 hangs in the rafters as proof of what one great player can accomplish on the game greatest stage.
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St. Louis Hawks
1955-1965
Partenaire
Carolyn Pettit
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Bob Pettit was famously cut from his high school basketball team as a freshman — a rejection that reportedly fueled his obsessive approach to skill development that ultimately made him one of the greatest players in NBA history.
He was the first player in NBA history to score 20,000 career points — a milestone that came at a time when the significance of the achievement was not yet fully understood, but which has only grown in stature over decades.
Pettit won the 1958 Finals MVP in the game that denied Bill Russell his first championship — scoring 50 points in Game 6 to clinch the title in one of the greatest individual Finals performances in NBA history.
He retired in 1965 at the peak of his powers with a 26.4 career PPG average — a number that would rank among the all-time greats in any era of basketball.
Distinctions de Carrière
2x NBA MVP (1956, 1959)
11x NBA All-Star (1955-1965)
1958 NBA Champion (St. Louis Hawks)
NBA scoring champion (1956, 1957)
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (1971)
First player in NBA history to score 20,000 career points
1958 NBA Finals MVP
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