RIP Zelmo Beaty

RIP to an outstanding player.
http://nypost.com/2013/09/08/aba-star-zelmo-beaty-dead-at-73/

 

The Atlanta Hawks had a real solid starting lineup
with Beaty, Lou Hudson, Bill Bridges and Jumpin Joe Caldwell.
Never won but gave the top teams trouble.
RIP

 

I agree.

 

Racking my brain trying to remember their 5th player - Walt Hazzard

That's a pretty impressive starting 5.

 

The name is so unique, Mr. Beaty is hard to forget. His run in St. Louis was before my time but I still have one of his Topps ABA cards. RIP.

 

NBA's best elbows. RIP.

 

Your memory is pretty damn good. They were good. Just not good enough to win it all.

 

Wish I had the balls to give my kid the middle name of Zelmo, or some other dying handle like that.
There are a lot of perfectly good names that are dying out, replaced by all sorts of made-up abominable combinations of vowels, syllables and random capital letters. Or worse, just crowded out by all the Zacks, Jasons, Jennifers and Allisons.

Miss me some Zelmos. And Lavergnes. Hell, even Fred, Henry, Martha and Gertrude are hard to find these days.

(I now feel about 30 years older than my actual age...)

 

I would go with "Willis"

 

Hell, we could use a "Wilton" too.