Deep Bench Chronicles
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Forgotten NBA stories. Role players. Bench legends. Longform writing on the strange corners of hoops history. From the creator of The Greg Ostertag Society.
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Joined November 2025
Jeff Turner won Olympic gold before carving out a long NBA career built on fundamentals, role acceptance, and durability. New piece on a player who understood his place, and made it last. Jeff Turner, Olympic Magic Link below.
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C : Greg Ostertag C : Ervin Johnson C : Dwayne Schintzius C : Paul Mokeski C : Greg Kite Wait… there are positions other than center in basketball?
Happy New Year, NBA fans. After little reflection, here’s my “my favorites” starting five (not best or greatest, just my favorite players at each position that I was actually around to watch): PG: Stephen Curry SG: Kobe Bryant SF: Grant Hill PF: Dirk Nowitzki C: Nikola Jokić
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Mr. Chicago Bull! The first player in franchise history to have his jersey retired. Alongside Norm Van Lier, he formed a tough, hard-nosed backcourt. He was indeed selected in the Bulls’ 1966 expansion draft, but played his rookie season with the Baltimore Bullets.
Before Jordan, Jerry Sloan established the Bulls’ identity As the back of the card reads he was an Original Chicago Bull. Drafted by the Bulls in 1966, the franchise’s inaugural season, he became one of its first true stars.
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Nikola Jokić has taken 10+ free-throw attempts in 101 of his 870 career games (or in 11.6% of his total games played). Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has taken 10+ free-throw attempts in 156 of his 538 career games (29.0%)
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Very thorough investigative work, offering a fresh and well-argued perspective @oldskoolbballx
https://t.co/Liia5nCVpL LeBron James probably has the most scripted career in modern NBA history
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Excellent investigative work by my french friend Richard on the origins of the term ‘power forward’ in basketball.
RUN & GUN - Chapitre 10 : L'Origine du terme Power Forward C'est un terme courant de nos jours. Pourtant, il faut attendre longtemps avant de le voir faire son apparition dans le langage basketballistique. Lien : https://t.co/5vl9GuqoDS
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Danny Schayes entered the league facing Elvin Hayes. He was still around when Marcus Camby arrived. Few careers span that kind of NBA history. (Full piece in the first reply.)
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Phil Jackson wanted Derrick Coleman as his first choice to replace Horace Grant in 1995, well before Rodman entered the picture : "Coleman should have become a Hall of Famer. Like Chris Webber. But a very angry, unhappy kid." PJ
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Just finished reading Masters of the Game by Phil Jackson and Sam Smith. A fascinating and uneven trip through the NBA’s Top 75, with a few gems along the way. https://t.co/i1saODrmEj
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Nouvel article sur Ostertag Society. Je parle de “NBA Signatures”, une pépite signée Vincent Reculeau et Adrien Pommepuy, sortie chez Amphora. Préface de Jacques Monclar. https://t.co/hU7tWYZebI
@EditionsAmphora @AdrienPMMP @WonderfulOhYeah @JMonclar
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New article now live. I really enjoyed digging into this one. A nickname pulled me in, and it turned into a story about one of the toughest, most overlooked rebounders of the 80s. https://t.co/b50WgmS39w
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Working on something about Larry “Mr. Mean” Smith, one of the toughest rebounders of the 80s and a real Golden State cult hero. More soon.
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Something new. Forgotten NBA stories, role players, bench legends — the strange corners of hoops history. First deep dive: From high-school trumpeter to NBA enforcer: the overlooked life of Bill Robinzine. 🔗 https://t.co/hBiHkJNL0c
#NBAHistory #NBATwitter
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