BOB PETTIT (BASKETBALL LEGENDS)
Bob Pettit fought his way past two Cicinnati Royals during this 1957 game o n his way to another basket. When he retired in 1966 after eleven seasons, Pettit was the NBA's leading scorer, with 20,880 points. Where does Bob Pettit fit in among the greatest basketball players of all time? At the very top, according to the experts who named him to the NBA's twenty-fifth and thirty-fifth anniversary All-Time Teams. After all, when he retired in 1965, Robert Lee Pettit, Jr., was the highest scorer in the history of professional basketball with 20,880 points, and third in rebounding with 12,849 boards . Don't underplay th ose rebounds-they say a lot about the 6-foot-9 athlete. "I recognize that I am totally prejudiced in behalf of Bob Pettit," Ben Kerner , owner of the St. Louis Hawks, once said. "He was a scoring champion, but more important, he was a tireless rebounder at both ends of the court." Offensive rebounds , the kind that often require grit a...