Trivia question for a prize!!

[tornado]

Here's an offseason trivia question and I especially encourage all the ISU fans looking in
to participate since they might just have an advantage!! (hint, hint)

The prize will be a gift certificate to Avanti's Restaurant -- free food - not a coupon
and it can be redeemed at any time for free food just like cash!

OK -- here goes ---

Name the first (and apparently still the only) NBA team to ever have a starting lineup
of ALL left handers - and name the five lefty starters...and when it occurred!

 

[PTownHawkeye]

Was it the 1976-77 New York Nets with Dave Wohl, Tim Bassett, Al Skinner, Kim Hughes and Bubbles Hawkins? February 1977.

 

[tornado]

OMG -- now seriously -- how did you know....? -- although I could withhold the prize on the technicality that they were the New Jersey Nets by 1977, not New York.

that is such an obscure factoid -- and since one of those left-handers was Robert "Bubbles" Hawkins -- one of the only 3 ISU players to ever make it to the NBA - I thought sure a Redbird fan woulda known ...




"The team (New Jersey Nets in their first season as an NBA team after leaving the ABA)
did set one record of sorts; in February 1977, they became the first NBA team ever to have
an all-left-handed starting lineup, with Tim Bassett, Al Skinner, Bubbles Hawkins, Dave Wohl, and Kim Hughes."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Nets

The Nets might be harnessing energy from the memorable 1976-77 team. That Nets team finished
an NBA worst 22-60, but set an NBA record of their own along the way. In February that year they became
the first NBA team to sport an all-left-handed starting lineup led by none other than Bubbles Hawkins
http://espn.go.com/blog/sportscenter/post/_/id/4095/new-jersey-nets-where-badness-happens

The New Jersey Nets fielded the first all-lefthanded lineup in NBA history in the 1976-77 season.
Tim Basset, Al Skinner, Dave Wohl, Kim Hughes, and the unforgettable “Bubbles” Hawkins.
http://raywoodson.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/did-you-know-2-0/

 

[PTownHawkeye]

You are right, it was New Jersey, my fault. I am left-handed myself, so I know an embarassing amount of left-handed trivia. I have a friend who gives me a new book of left-handed trivia every year, so my library is considered to be impressive (and somewhat pathetic) by all who see it.

 

[45otseoj]

That is very interesting! I am a lefty as well, though I didn't know Bubbles was; waaay before my time.

 

[lefty]

Was it the 1976-77 New York Nets with Dave Wohl, Tim Bassett, Al Skinner, Kim Hughes and Bubbles Hawkins? February 1977.

what a sweet team