Willis Reed, Jr. (born June 25, 1942) is a retired American basketball player, coach and general manager. He spent his entire professional playing career (1964–1974) with the New York Knicks. In 1982, his outstanding record and achievements were recognized by his induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In 1997, he was voted one of the "50 Greatest Players in NBA History".
After retiring as a player, Reed served as assistant and head coach with several teams for nearly a decade, then was promoted to General Manager and Vice President of Basketball Operations (1989 to 1996) for the New Jersey Nets. As Senior Vice President of Basketball, he led them to the NBA Finals in 2002 and 2003.
Reed was born in 1942 in Hico, Louisiana and named after his father, Willis Reed. He grew up on a farm in nearby Bernice, a lumber town in an area of pine woods. His parents worked to ensure Reed got an education in the segregated South. Reed showed athletic ability at an early age and played basketball at West Side High School in nearby Lillie.
Westley Sissel "Wes" Unseld (born March 14, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American former basketball player. He spent his entire NBA career with the Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets, and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988.
Unseld starred on a Seneca High School team that won two state championships. In 1965, Unseld began playing center for the University of Louisville, where he averaged 35.8 points per game and 23.6 rebounds per game in 14 games with a freshman team. He was a 3-year letter winner, scored 1,686 points in 82 games (20.6 points per game), grabbed 1,551 rebounds (18.9 rebounds per game), led the conference in rebounding in 1966, 1967 and 1968, and led Louisville to a 60-22 record with two trips to the NCAA tournament and one trip to the NIT tournament. Unseld is also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Unseld was drafted by the Kentucky Colonels in the 1968 American Basketball Association draft and was drafted second overall in the first round by the Baltimore Bullets in 1968, and helped lead the Bullets (who had finished in last place in the Eastern division the previous year) to a 57-25 record and a division title. Unseld averaged 18.2 rebounds per game that year, and became only the second player ever to win both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same season (Wilt Chamberlain being the first). Unseld was also named the Sporting News MVP that year. He was one of the best defensive players of his era, and in 1975, he led the NBA in rebounding. The following season, he led the NBA in field goal percentage with a .561 percentage.
Harold "Happy" Hairston (May 31, 1942 – May 1, 2001) was an American professional basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA. He was a member of 1971–72 NBA championship Lakers team that won 33 games in a row, a record not duplicated in any other American professional sport. Hairston was a 6'7" (200 cm) 225 lb (102 kg) forward. He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Hairston attended Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, New York. He played college basketball at New York University from 1962 to 1964. He played professionally for the Cincinnati Royals and Detroit Pistons before arriving at the Lakers in 1969.
In 1971-72, Hairston grabbed 1,045 rebounds and his teammate Wilt Chamberlain pulled down 1,572. It remains the only season in NBA history that two teammates grabbed more than 1,000 rebounds each. Hairston led the Lakers in both rebounds and field goal percentage during the 1973-74 and 1974-75 seasons, and set an NBA record for most defensive rebounds in a quarter with 13 (vs. the Philadelphia 76ers, November 15, 1974).
Peter "Pistol Pete" Press Maravich (June 22, 1947 – January 5, 1988) was an American professional basketball player. Born and raised in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Maravich starred in college at Louisiana State University (LSU) and played for three NBA teams until injuries induced him to retire in 1980. He is still the all-time leading NCAA Division I scorer with 3,667 points scored and an average of 44.2 points per game. (All of his accomplishments were achieved before the three-point line was introduced to NCAA basketball, and despite being unable to play varsity as a freshman under then-NCAA rules.) Maravich died suddenly at age 40 during a pick-up game as a consequence of a previously undetected congenital heart defect. One of the youngest players ever inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Maravich was cited by the Hall as "perhaps the greatest creative offensive talent in history". In an April 2010 interview, Hall of Fame player John Havlicek said "the best ball-handler of all time was (Pete) Maravich."
Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American basketball player. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA; he played for the University of Kansas and also for the Harlem Globetrotters before playing in the NBA. The 7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain weighed 250 pounds as a rookie before bulking up to 275 and eventually to over 300 pounds with the Lakers. He played the center position and is widely considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in NBA history.
Chamberlain holds numerous NBA all-time records in scoring, rebounding and durability categories. He is the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game or average more than 40 and 50 points in a season. He also won seven scoring, nine field goal percentage, and eleven rebounding titles, and once even led the league in assists. Although he suffered a long string of professional losses, Chamberlain had a successful career, winning two NBA championships, earning four regular-season Most Valuable Player awards, the Rookie of the Year award, one NBA Finals MVP award, and being selected to 13 All-Star Games and ten All-NBA First and Second teams. Chamberlain was subsequently enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978, elected into the NBA's 35th Anniversary Team of 1980, and chosen as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History of 1996.
Night inside the city
Empty sidewalks
Stretching under dizzy lights
Rain is humming
The streets are running
Underneath the neon lights
We run together
We'll run forever
Out of here
Riding the wheels
Look at pretty windows
At shiny people
Statues under sparkling lights
Just take a picture
A melting moment
Flashing on this crazy ride
Just close your eyes now
And breathe a sigh now
We're getting out of here
Out of here
Riding the wheels
Riding the wheels
You say you got no problem,
Being where you are,
You don't want to understand, anyway.
Cause everybody tells ya,
When you're right or wrong,
And they just want to have the right to disagree.
Cause sometimes you feel so fine, yeah
And sometimes you fall,
Tomorrow's always find you,
Digging for the bones,
I thought you had the answer,
For always being right.
You always see it coming,
But you never ever fight,
You don't know how to fight.
There's a cold wind blowing,
On a silvery morning,
And the air feels fine upon your face.
And you walk cause your lonely,
And you wish you had a job,
Someone else who understood the little things.
Cause sometimes you feel so fine, yeah
And sometimes you fall,
Tomorrow's always finds you,
Staring at the wall.
I thought you had the answer,
For always being right.
You always see it coming,
But you never ever fight,
No, you don't know how to fight.
And you turn on the T.V.
And you reach for the phone,
Because someone read the news to you all wrong.
And you say that you've discovered,
A world that won't recover,
And sometimes it's so hard to disagree.
Tomorrow's always finds you,
Staring at the wall.
You thought you had the answer,
For always being right.
You always see it coming,
But you don't know how to fight,
I don't get too low
When everything goes wrong
I don't get too high
When everything's alright
I know i'm always safe
Tho' i don't play that way
I listen to my soul
And no one else
I'm always right
Even when i'm wrong
If i get lost
I know what's going on
I'm always right
Even when i'm wrong
I get protection from my soul
It's all about control
And intimidation
Centuries of hype
Designed to keep us dumb
Evolution postponed
Due to lack of interest
It's not what i believe
It's what i know
Drugs tryin' to use me
T.v. tryin' to faze me
Computers tryin' to program me
I'm not user friendly
All i've been told
Distorted information
I'm feeling kind of scared
cuz I'm falling in love with you
But you don't care
cuz you don't know how I feel
I don't want to give my heart to someone new
I've been there before and it's my heart she tore in
Can somebody please stop me,
From falling for this girl
I don't want to have to go through love again
Cuz it always hurts
It's hard to look away
when you say the things that you say
I try to be so cold
but you melt the chill away
I don't want to give my heart to you
cuz I'm afraid of what will happen
and the things that you'll do
Can somebody please stop me,
From falling for this girl
I don't want to have to go through love again
Cuz it always hurts
Can somebody please stop me,
From falling for this girl
I don't want to have to go through love again
Cuz it always hurts
Oh I'm fighting oh so hard
to keep the feeling inside
but I don't think I can
I wanna hold your hand
this man is afraid of the outcome
Can somebody please stop me,
From falling for this girl
I don't want to have to go through love again
Cuz it always hurts, always hurts
Can somebody please stop me,
From falling for this girl
I don't want to have to go through love again
Tomorrow I'll feel better than today
You're leaving and I think it's better off this way
I'll change the channels 'til you're gone
Pack your bags, it won't be long
Another hour and a song
You won't agree
You never would with me
I pick roses you pick fights
You should have known by now I'm always right
I'm paying for what happened yesterday
Forgive me for not knowing what to say
You were right, and I was wrong
I changed my mind, but now you're gone
I don't think you're fat
I'd never call you that
I never want to fight with anyone but you
You won't agree
You never would with me
I pick roses you pick fights
Don't tell me you couldn't do it
I'm always right when I intuit
God is in the things you love
So don't you punch me with kid gloves
And if you really wanted this
You'd shake your life, you'd sell your kids
And if you really wanted this then you'd admit I'm
Always right (x4)
I can see your protestations
As merely manipulations
What you feel is not the issue
You're so polite I want to hit you
And hope that you'll retaliate
And prove my fears legitimate
I'd like to thank you, though it's trite,
For assuring me I'm
Always right (x4)
Worst offenders hide their crimes
As you've denied yours countless times
So don't plead for a lighter sentence
Be contrite and show repentance
And demonstrate your love for me
By handing me your diaries
I'll skim them til I'm justified
It says right here I'm
Always right (x4)
Say what you like but I'm not listening
My fangs are white and sharp and glistening
You seem like my favorite grade
I even earned this with straight As
As God made Adam in his image
You'll emulate me when I'm finished
I'll give you the gift of light
If you concede I'm
Jealous heart, oh jealous heart, stop beating
Can't you see the damage you have done?
You have driven her away, forever
Jealous heart, now I'm the lonely one
I was part of everything she planned for
And I know she loved me at the start
Now she hates the sight of all I stand for
All because of you, oh jealous heart
Jealous heart, why did I let you rule me
When I knew the end would bring me pain
Now she's gone, she's gone and found another
Oh, I'll never see my love again
Through the years here memory will haunt me
Even though we're many miles apart
It's so hard to know she'll never want me
'Cause she heard your beating jealous heart
Many times I trusted you to guide me
But your guiding only brought me tears
Why, oh why, must I have you inside me
Jealous heart oh jealous heart stop beating can't you see the damage you have done
You have driven him away forever jealous heart now I'm the lonely one
I was part of everything he planned for and I know he loved me from the start
Now he hates the sight of all I stand for since he heard your beating jealous heart
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Oh, jealous heart, oh, jealous heart, stop beating
Can't you see the damage you have done?
You have driven him away forever
Jealous heart, now I'm the lonely one
I was part of everything he planned for
And I know he loved me at the start
And now he hates the sight of all I stand for
All because of you, oh, jealous heart
Now that he's gone, he's gone and found another
I know he loved me from the start
Through all the years his memory will haunt me
And all because of you, oh, jealous heart
All because of you, oh, jealous heart