Basketball Mt. Rushmore

Since the football Mt Rushmore is on another thread, how about basketball:

Slater Martin
TJ Ford
Kevin Durant and
(surprise) Jay Arnette

 

TJ Ford
Kevin Durant
Travis Mays
LaSalle Thompson

After TJ and KD it was difficult.....

 

TJ Ford
Slater Martin
Kevin Durant
LaSalle Thompson

 

TJ Ford
Slater Martin
Kevin Durant
LaMarcus Aldridge

 

Slater Martin
Larry Robinson
Abe Lemons (OK, So they needed a Coach, and yes, I do know that makes 5..LOL.)
TJ Ford
Kevin Durant

 

LaSalle Thompson definitely deserves a place on this list. He was a great player, stayed 3 years and his hair part was boss -- it would really show up nice in a statue.

 

I struggled between LaSalle and LaMarcus. Ultimately went with LaMarcus based on NBA career comparison. If we're basing selection on NCAA stats only, I'd go with LaSalle.

 

Comprehensive history at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Longhorns_men's_basketball

Reason for Arnette for those that do not know him:
Jay Arnette PG 1958–60 1960 Olympic gold medalist
1960 NBA Draft 2nd Round, 1st pick (9th overall)—Cincinnati Royals
1960 first-team All-American guard
1960 first-team All-SWC

The Olympic team featured:
Name [1] Position Height Weight Age Home Town Team/School
Jay Arnette Guard 6-2 175 21 Austin, TX Texas
Walt Bellamy Center 6-11 217 21 Baltimore, MD Indiana
Bob Boozer Forward 6-8 220 23 Omaha, NE Peoria Caterpillars (Kansas State)
Terry Dischinger Forward 6-6 190 19 Terre Haute, IN Purdue
Burdette Haldorson Forward 6-7 207 26 Austin, MN Phillips 66ers (Colorado)
Darrall Imhoff Center 6-11 220 21 Berkeley, CA California
Allen Kelley Guard 5-11 164 27 McCune, KS Peoria Caterpillars (Kansas)
Lester Lane Guard 5-11 165 28 Purcell, OK Wichita Vickers (Oklahoma)
Jerry Lucas Forward 6-8 220 20 Middletown, OH Ohio State
Oscar Robertson Forward 6-5 220 21 Indianapolis, IN Cincinnati
Adrian Smith Guard 6-0 175 23 Farmington, KY U.S. Armed Forces (Kentucky)
Jerry West Guard 6-2 185 22 Chelyan, WV West Virginia

 

Man that's a good team.

 

BMW all played as one. Yeah, I know, I'm grasping.

 

With Slater Martin on the list, should Raymond Downs also get some consideration?

 

No love for Chris Mihm? I've often wondered what would have been if he'd stayed for his senior year and played w/ TJ

 

On current rosters

http://hookemheadlines.com/2016/12/20/texas-basketball-nba-players-2016-17/

LaMarcus Aldridge – Power forward/Center, San Antonio Spurs
DJ Augustin – Point guard, Orlando Magic
Avery Bradley – Point guard, Boston Celtics
Kevin Durant – Small forward, Golden State Warriors
Cory Joseph – Point guard, Toronto Raptors
Sheldon McClellan – Shooting guard, Washington Wizards
Tristan Thompson – Power forward, Cleveland Cavaliers
PJ Tucker – Small forward, Phoenix Suns
Myles Turner – Power Forward/Center, Indiana Pacers

 

Chris Owens is the one you are thinking of, I think, who played with TJ for like 8 games and then got injured and missed the rest of the year. Chris Mihm was a few years earlier than TJ.

 

No, just misremembered - Mihm's senior year would have been 200o-2001 season. TJ's freshman year was 2001-2002 season.

 

How is McClellan on the list? He basically Played for Miami. He was here one year than transferred. The list is bacically the current NBA players that played for us, with the excepltion of McClellan. Most are not Mt Rushmore material.

 

Right, its just a list of the current NBA players who played for us