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Have you seen anyone in today’s game—like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander—who reminds you of players from your era? Michael Cooper: Yes. George Gervin. Kevin Durant. Yeah. You see players like him but he plays the game in a different kind of way. That young man is so….. The one thing I love about SGA is that if you look at his game, he never very rarely, maybe once a game but, I haven’t seen it in this playoff series see him take a bad shot. He doesn’t take falling back leaning all the way back — if he does, he scores. But he doesn’t take a lot of bad shots and he always plays the game at his speed and he gets what he wants. You know, one of the unique things that I was able to experience was a young Kobe Bryant. I worked Kobe out when he came in and did his workout with the Lakers and it was certain things that Jerry had wanted him to do — get to this spot, get to the elbow, get to the low post, get to the midrange and we put X’s on the floor to where he had to get to and my job was to keep him away from that. Now there were many times that he didn’t get there and there were many times that he did get there and every time he hit his shot but, the things that we saw with Kobe, is that he got to his spots. Great NBA players know where their spot is on the floor. Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson… These guys know where their spots are. They know if they get to that spot, 9 out of 10 times they’re going to hit that shot and that’s what SGA has.

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George Gervin: The Spurs got a good real good news with Fox coming in and Wemby. They got a good nucleus to really put something together. Hey, y'all. Y'all know just like I know: The old era is gone. No LeBron, no Steph. Chandler Parsons: It's a new wave. Gervin: They got the young fellas now. So, everybody, hey, Lou, everybody is gonna be an ex player one day. Lou Williams: That's a fact. That is a fact.

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Chandler Parsons: Is Tyrese Haliburton a superstar? George Gervin: When they needed him, he was there. You know what is a superstar? A superstar is someone you can depend on. Someone who takes charge when it's time. He got all the criteria, that's been proved that he is a superstar. So, I'm excited about it. He has some big shots in these playoffs to get them where they are today. So, he done proved to me that he does belong and he should have that title. No doubt.

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George Gervin on if he would be interested in coaching the Knicks: “Not at all, man. I want to hit my golf ball and do some fishing. I had my turn. I'm satisfied with it. I got seven grandchildren, I want to spend time with them.”

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Jorge Sierra: Pascal Siakam passed these players in playoff scoring tonight Vince Carter George Gervin Tayshaun Prince George Hill Some serious names in there. Siakam is now No. 110 in NBA history.

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When talking about Kevin Durant, there’s a real sense of mentorship, connection, and mutual respect. It wasn’t just about style of play — it was about a personal bond built behind the scenes, long before KD became a household name. “I used to be his mentor,” said Gervin. “The NBA had a mentoring program early on in his career when he was with Seattle and I went up there a few times and sat with him, ate dinner, talked to him, talked with him about basketball and also did it with him when he was down there in OKC, you know? So I had a personal relationship with KD. People would always ask, Man, who reminds you of you? And I say, ‘He does in a sense because of the effectiveness in scoring.’ But I tell ‘em, ‘He doesn’t score like ME!’ [Kevin’s] tall and slender and I think that’s where people make the comparison but our abilities to score totally different. The effectiveness is the same. We BOTH get it done.”

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Jorge Sierra: Jalen Brunson passed all these players in playoff scoring tonight: Vince Carter George Gervin Anthony Davis George Hill Michael Cooper Don Nelson Paul Millsap He's No. 110 all-time now.

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Jorge Sierra: Luka Doncic now has more playoff points than Vince Carter and George Gervin. He's No. 106 all-time, which is not bad for a 26-year-old guy.

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Michael Cooper: But you know, people ask me all the time, ‘Who’s the hardest player?’ And I always say him, because I played against Michael Jordan, George Gervin, Andrew Toney—those guys. When they passed the ball, they had a tendency to take a break for a second. Larry never was going to take a break. Larry was going to go get an offensive rebound, he was going to go set a back pick—he was going to do something to impact that possession. That’s why he was the hardest."

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The Brisbane Bullets have announced former NBA Hall of Fame George Gervin has joined the club’s ownership group. Gervin, a nine-time NBA All-Star, will work with GameAbove Sports to acquire an ownership stake in the in Bullets. “Basketball has always been my passion, and to be part of a franchise like the Brisbane Bullets is an incredible opportunity,” Gervin said.

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Jorge Sierra: Most times leading the NBA playoffs in scoring average 10: Michael Jordan 9: 8: 7: 6: 5: Kevin Durant 4: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jerry West, Bob Cousy, Elgin Baylor 3: Kobe Bryant, George Gervin, LeBron James, Hakeem Olajuwon

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“The whole reason I wore No. 44 throughout my career was because of what George Gervin meant to me. The first time I met him I was a junior in high school and there were whispers going around that he was up in the stands, and I went up and introduced myself, and he took the time to mentor me.”

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Coleman is holding an event in Dearborn, Michigan the week after the All-Star game to honor Gervin and Washington, but that is not the main purpose of the event. The Detroit chapter of the Retired Players Association is trying to raise $20 million for a full makeover of the Saint Cecilia gym, which has been more or less shuttered for the past 4-5 years. “I used to take the bus down there for a quarter at 8 in the morning, eat lunch at Burger King, play ball all day and not leave until 9 o’clock at night,” said Earl Cureton, who played in the NBA, in Italy, in Puerto Rico, Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico before returning to Michigan, where he is now a team ambassador for the Pistons and also calls University of Detroit games as a broadcaster. “Kids these days do not have a safe place like that where they can be surrounded by role models, and we want to bring that back. It kept you around the right mentors and the right people.

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Matt Williams: Today is the 1st day with multiple 60-point games since April 9, 1978: David Thompson had 73 points George Gervin had 63 points There have never been multiple 65-point games on a single day in NBA history

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