Basketball

A year before Lenny Wilkens coached the Seattle SuperSonics to their first and only NBA Championship, he lost in the Finals in seven games to a team that would make four NBA Finals in that decade (the first with a different city), but win just one game in their other three attempts. Two of the players on the team that beat Wilkens’ SuperSonics would later be named to the NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team. Name either one. (Again, your answer should be a player.)

Free hint: Another 50th Anniversary honoree who played on an earlier version of the team in question had been dealt to the Knicks in a high-profile trade before the team in question won the title.

Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes

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Game 3 of the 2006 College World Series championship series between North Carolina and Oregon State went to the bottom of the eighth tied at 2. The Beavers put two runners on with two outs against Daniel Bard in the eighth, prompting Tar Heels coach Mike Fox to go to the bullpen for Baseball America’s 2006 college player of the year. That player got Ryan Gipson to hit a one-hopper to second baseman Bryan Steed that looked like it would end the inning, but Steed made a throwing error, allowing Bill Rowe to score the CWS-winning run in the Beavers’ 3-2 victory. Name the UNC pitcher who came on in relief of Bard.

Andrew Miller

Hockey

The first round of Stump the Schwab was a game called “Leading Off”, in which players would take turns naming correct answers from a particular category until everyone was out or they completed the list. For one such category, host Stuart Scott asked the contestants to name the 16 players in NHL history who had eclipsed 1,400 career points, going into the 2005-2006 season. To everyone’s surprise, the Schwab offered an incorrect answer early on. Despite the player being a six-time Stanley Cup winning winger and Hall of Famer, he finished with only 1,099 career points. Name the former Oiler mistakenly included as a 1,400-point scorer.

Glenn Anderson