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IWB
08-28-2015, 11:11 AM
RIP to Chocolate Thunder Darryl Dawkins, only 58 years old!
Goose85
08-28-2015, 11:19 AM
Really sad, as that is way too young.

A great character for the NBA, and the dunker than drove the need for the breakaway rim.
The Reptile
08-28-2015, 11:27 AM
A truly funny man too. When I was in HS and he played for the Nets he was a regular on Warner Wolf's TV show on Monday evenings after the local news. He was a talent ball player, very exciting to watch but he had a great sense of humor and loved to laugh. He will be missed.
IWB
08-28-2015, 12:06 PM
And because he didn't go to college, when they introduced players naming their college, did he request that they say he was from Planet LoveTron?

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pbiflyer
08-28-2015, 04:06 PM
We met him at an event in NYC a couple years back. Very nice guy. Spent time with my little kids. Funny, when it came time for pictures, he was trying to get them to look fierce.
IWB
08-28-2015, 05:02 PM
Someone sent me this trivia question today.....

Who nicknamed Darryl Dawkins "Chocolate Thunder"?
Goose85
08-28-2015, 05:50 PM
Darryl Dawkins give himself the name?
MayorBeluga
08-28-2015, 06:01 PM
Someone sent me this trivia question today.....

Who nicknamed Darryl Dawkins "Chocolate Thunder"?

In this day and age, who can imagine using that nickname? The professional, perpetual outrage machine (of which both sides have one) would be, well, outraged.
MUMac
08-28-2015, 06:10 PM
Someone sent me this trivia question today.....

Who nicknamed Darryl Dawkins "Chocolate Thunder"?

Stevie Wonder.
IWB
08-28-2015, 07:57 PM
Goose - that was actually my guess too, but Mac got it.

Who would have thought a blind man gave a basketball star his nickname?
MUMac
08-28-2015, 08:42 PM
Goose - that was actually my guess too, but Mac got it.

Who would have thought a blind man gave a basketball star his nickname?

I had heard that story a few years ago and had same thought. That is why I would remember it.
Gato78
08-28-2015, 08:52 PM
Daryl Dawkins himself said it was crazy that Stevie Wonder came up with the name since he had never seen him play.
CaribouJim
08-31-2015, 03:01 AM
Who can forget Dawkins squaring off against Maurice Lucas in that iconic '77 finals - Mo going with the John L. Sullivan pose. I'm pretty sure that led to his "enforcer" monicker and that great pose in the NBA SI preseason issue for the '77-'78 season - wearing denim from head to toe IIRC.

'77 a great year for MU - past and present players.