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An NBA champ and regular-season MVP, Bob Pettit was one of 4 players to average 20 points and 20 rebounds for a season. Shaun Powell The first player to reach 20,000 points, Bob Pettit never finished ...

The NBA champion and 11-time All-Star was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1971. Brett Martel | The Associated Press The first MVP in NBA history, Bob Pettit was a true ...

Hall of Famer Bob Pettit, the first NBA player to reach 20,000 points and one of five players to make the All-Star team in each season of his career, died Wednesday, Sept. 23. He was 93. The Naismith ...

Bob Pettit, pictured, was the NBA's first formal Most Valuable Player winner and the first to cross the 20,000-point threshold. Via Bettmann / Contributor Bob Pettit learned to play basketball in his ...

Hagan, a 5-time All-Star, helped the St. Louis Hawks break up the Boston Celtics' dynasty with a championship in 1958. Wilt Chamberlain was averaging an unprecedented 50.4 points per game, yet some ...

A prolific scorer and rebounder, in 1958 he delivered one of the most remarkable performances in playoff history. Bob Pettit was named Most Valuable Player of the N.B.A. All-Star Game in 1958. Credit.

The number of antisemitic incidents at British universities is "significantly higher" than before the 7 October attacks nearly three years ago, a charity has warned. The Community Security Trust (CST) ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Bob Pettit, the original superstar of LSU basketball and a pioneering force in the NBA, has died. Family members confirm Pettit, whose legal name was Robert Lee Pettit Jr., ...