La Salle players- Professional Championship teams

[theneumann64]

With Gary Neal getting ready to play in the NBA Finals (and we'll get in to that later), I did a search on probasketballreference.com and pulled up everyone tagged to La Salle.

I went through every guy (there were 22 in all) and here's what I came up with for guys who were on a Championship team SOMETIME DURING their Championship year. A few guys were on a team early in the year and weren't on the roster come playoff time. A few guys, especially early on, narrowly missed a ring, either coming to a team a year late, leaving a year early, or just losing to the Celtics a bunch of times in the Finals. I'll add some of that later this week.


For now, here's what I came up with:

Jack George- '56 Warriors
Jackie Moore-'56 Warriors
-was also on the '55 Syracuse Nationals that went on to win the title, but was sold to the Milwaukee Hawks mid-year.
Tom Gola- '56 Warriors

Larry Cannon- '72 Pacers (ABA Title, up to you if you want to count it)
Ralph Lewis- '90 Pistons (played 4 games in April, signed with Charlotte, was not with Pistons in playoffs)

[goexplorers]

Wasn't Rasual with the Heat when they won in 06 (I think that was the year they won with Shaq and Wade)?

[mookie]

I hope you weren't counting Gary Neal as an NBA player associated with LaSalle. I don't think any site lists LaSalle with him. He wants nothing to do with us...

[mookie]

Jun 4, 2013 8:22:02 GMT -5 goexplorers said:

Wasn't Rasual with the Heat when they won in 06 (I think that was the year they won with Shaq and Wade)?

He "left" that year. His last season with the Heat was the year before...he just missed out.

[glorydays]

It doesn't look like La Salle ever had many guys on an NFL rosters. I was thinking back maybe somebody from the pre WWII era.

www.databasefootball.com/players/playerbycollege.htm

[glorydays]

It doesn't look like La Salle ever had many guys on NFL rosters. I was thinking back maybe somebody from the pre WWII era.

Here are our pro football guys. I am not sure about championships.

www.databasefootball.com/players/bycollege.htm?sch=La+Salle+University

[belfieldhappyhour]

Here's the easy baseball list

www.baseball-reference.com/schools/index.cgi?key_school=0cc4121f

The killed Will Fleck's last night (Reck). Guessing you'll be able to add Christensen's name to this list after the draft.

DiMichele said he gave up the second HR to Jose Canseco in his first 40-40 season.

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Jun 4, 2013 8:22:22 GMT -5 mookie said:

I hope you weren't counting Gary Neal as an NBA player associated with LaSalle. I don't think any site lists LaSalle with him. He wants nothing to do with us...

The feeling is mutual.

[theneumann64]

I wasn't implying anything, I'm going to start a thread on him in a few days. It was just a fun little exercise for me.

Does anyone know of anyone else I may have missed? Gary Neal didn't show up tagged to La Salle, so maybe there was a guy who left us, played elsewhere and then when on to the ABA/NBA? I know a lot of you old-timers remember back to before they cut the bottoms out of the peach basket, so any help you can give me would be appreciated.

[MisterD]

Why even start a thread on that guy? I don't care if we're coming off a Sweet 16 or a zero win season, maintaining that bridge only brings us down another notch.

[crayzeeguy]

Jun 4, 2013 9:33:56 GMT -5 theneumann64 said:

I wasn't implying anything, I'm going to start a thread on him in a few days. It was just a fun little exercise for me.

Does anyone know of anyone else I may have missed? Gary Neal didn't show up tagged to La Salle, so maybe there was a guy who left us, played elsewhere and then when on to the ABA/NBA? I know a lot of you old-timers remember back to before they cut the bottoms out of the peach basket, so any help you can give me would be appreciated.

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