MBA Standings … Season 57
EAST DIVISION
MILWAUKEE………..1-0
PHILADELPHIA………1-0
DALLAS…………………1-0
CHARLESTON……….
0-1
OKLAHOMA
CITY…..0-1
WEST DIVISION
SEATTLE………….2-0
LOS
ANGELES….1-1
GILLETTE…………1-1
SACRAMENTO…
0-1
SAN
JOSE…………0-2
NEXT UP: Dallas goes for consecutive win
number 10 dating back to last season as it travels to Oklahoma City.
BONUS
HALL OF FAMERS WHO NEVER WON A CHAMPIONSHIP
Usually, if you get a Hall of Fame player on a roster, a title eventually follows that player.
Almost 89 percent of the current 62 members of the MBA Hall of Fame have won championships, meaning that just 7 were never able to have a championship ring affixed to their cards.
Four of that number, including one active player, are centers. Read into that what you will.
The four centers are:
Diamond Dallas
Paige
Big Bill Rustler
Tom “the Bomb”
Kondla
and the currently active Chochky Galumpkus
The other three are:
Gato Do Mato, a forward
Soul Duran, a guard
Silo Chamberlain, a guard
Paige, a six-time All MBA center In seven seasons, was a two-time scoring champ who set the single-season rebound mark for 8 per game in his final campaign in Season 18. He presided over three 9-1 teams, an 8-2 team and a 10-0 club in his last season. The Lariats finished first five of his seven seasons, and his teams went to the Finals three times but never won it. Seasons 13 and 14 saw Paige suffer injuries that took him out of the playoffs both campaigns. Snakebit.
Rustler, an MBA original, captured three MVP awards, including MVP of the Season 10 playoffs for Seattle. But he was defeated by Houston in the Finals. His first 8 seasons were with Charleston, which went to the post-season 6 times, including Season 8 when Big Bill won his second MVP in a row. Philly won it that season.
Kondla played for four franchises in his six short seasons. He went to the Finals as a rookie in Season 28 with Seattle (lost to Dallas) but never got that close to a ring again.
Do Mato’s Milwaukee teams finished first twice in his three seasons there, reaching the Finals in Season 32 where they lost to Philly. Four more seasons in San Jose netted two more playoffs but no rings.
Duran, who played six seasons for two franchises and led his team in scoring in every one of those campaigns, got to two Finals with Houston but was thwarted by Milwaukee in his rookie season of Season 3 and Philadelphia in Season 5.
5-10 Chamberlain, the first MVP in MBA history, spent all six of his seasons with Charleston, where the team went to four playoffs but were constantly blocked by the two powers of the time, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.
Meanwhile, Galumpkus, who has toiled valiantly in the post for Oklahoma City (two stints, three seasons each), Dallas (three seasons), Seattle (two seasons), made it to the Finals two consecutive times with the Lariats in Seasons 54 and 55 where they were slapped down by the current Dallas dynasty. He’s now in San Jose for his 12th season, where this is next to no hope of sniffing a ring.
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