Connie Hawkins

Last week, the NBA lost another legend in Connie Hawkins.  Hawk’s story is well-chronicled but bittersweet.  In a nut shell, Hawkins was a New York playground legend who was very loosely implicated in a point shaving scandal.  Despite no hard evidence against him, Hawkins was expelled from Iowa (he was a freshman at the time) and no other school would take him.  Hawkins also was not drafted in the NBA, so he spent six years barnstorming with the Pittsburgh Rens and Globetrotters before the … [Read more...] about The Hawk FAQ