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Bellamy merits a couple of footnotes. Only a decade after the color barrier in the NBA was broken, and with racial quotas commonplace, he played on the first all-black lineup during a Packers game. (The franchise later moved to Baltimore and then Washington, DC.)

He also owns an NBA record that might never be broken: eighty-eight games in one season. In December 1968, he was traded from the New York Knicks to the Detroit Pistons. The Knicks had played thirty-five games, but the Pistons only twenty-nine, so he played an additional fifty-three games for the Pistons.

Bellamy was omitted from the NBA’s fiftieth anniversary team in 1996, despite statistics exceeding many of the big men who made it. One of them, Wes Unseld, asked, “Do you know what Bellamy did?”

What did he do?

He was an All-Star four times, and he averaged 20.1 points and 13.7 rebounds over fourteen seasons and 1,043 games. He was twice inducted into the Hall of Fame—belatedly as a player in 1993 and as part of the 1960 Olympic team in 2010.