Maurice Lucas

magical.

We got Lou Alcindor and Maurice Lucas and Bill Walton and all these great players to come to UCLA.

How did that happen? Well, how did that school not have NIL money? They're this is a massive school.

And the funny part is that you mentioned this when it comes to Chesney.

is amazing.

Same guy, and even before McDaniel was Mark, oh, God dang it, what's his name? Maurice Lucas.

Maurice Lucas.

He was my favorite player.

Yes, and he comes here, and it's like, eh.

So we were rookies in the playoffs.

And if I'm not mistaken, we had... a six or seven game series in Phoenix against Walter Davis, Foster, Maurice Lucas, and Boston had already won theirs.

So they were kind of waiting on us.

I think they had three or four days.

We were ready.

We had lost, you know, Bob McAdoo in 85.

Had Maurice Lucas in 86, but then we got Michael Thompson in 87, who a lot of people forget, MT was the number one draft pick in 79 and played on the same team with Kevin McHale.

So he knew how his tendencies, knew how to at least balance it out.

Dan Issel, who was one of the great scoring machines of all time, for sure.

Maurice Lucas, for sure.

He doesn't get enough historical credit.

I'm hip to him because of my friendship with Bill Walton, who so liked and respected Maurice Lucas that he named his son after him.

That's where Luke Walton got his name.

You know that.

To go back, growing up, I'll date myself here.

When I grew up watching basketball a ton, I was a huge Maurice Lucas fan.

And everybody who's under like 50 probably has no clue who Maurice Lucas is.

Maurice Lucas was the enforcer on the Blazers team that had Bill Walton.

And then he moved into being like sort of the kind of Rick Mahorn type player.

I actually like Rick Mahorn a lot too.

i believe that that's what a firearm

yeah and he was on the team like playing football for a minute and with the longhorns that's scary what is that like white men can't jump remember that when everybody they uh the woody harrelson character and wesley snipes and they they snooker them and uh it's Spoiler alert, if you haven't seen White Men Can't Jump, and I think that was former Laker Maurice Lucas, and they all start climbing the fence trying to get out there because he's going to get his gun.

That's too much.

I was

If San Antonio is smart enough to go with the three smalls, a power forward in Wemby in key spots, and give Wemby plenty of rest, like you said, if they can find a...

Maurice Lucas, a enforcer for that can be his bodyguard and do the dirty work on the boards for him and maybe be an inside scorer off the offensive glass.

They're going to be unbeatable.

I mean, they really are, but they have got to find that guy.

Physical player could knock you out just by moving you around.

But when guys tried to impose their will on the Suns, we had Charles Barkley saying, Maurice Lucas did it before.

It's just like, we're trying to play basketball.

You want to go like that? Cool.