Who wore number 71 in NBA?

Wearing the right number on your jersey is more important than just a fashion statement. It’s an important part of being an NBA player that goes back to the beginning of professional basketball.

Willie Naulls

William Dean Naulls was an American professional basketball player for 10 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a four-time NBA All-Star with the New York Knicks and won three NBA championships with the Boston Celtics.

Naulls grew up in California, where he was named the state’s Mr. Basketball in high school. He played college basketball with the UCLA Bruins, and earned All-American honors as a senior in 1956. Naulls was selected by the St. Louis Hawks (known now as the Atlanta Hawks) with the ninth overall pick of the 1956 NBA draft. He played briefly with St. Louis before being traded to New York, where he spent most of his career. With the Knicks, he became the first African American to be named a captain of a professional team in a major American sport. After a brief stint with the San Francisco Warriors (now the Golden State Warriors), Naulls finished his career with Boston Celtics. In December 1964, he was part of a Celtics unit that became the first all-black starting lineup in the NBA history.

McCoy McLemore

McCoy McLemore Jr. was an American professional basketball player in the 1960s and 1970s. He played college basketball for Drake University.

He was a third-round pick by the San Francisco Warriors in 1964. McLemore was a member of the Chicago Bulls’ inaugural team after being selected in the 1966 expansion draft. Two years later, the Phoenix Suns drafted McLemore in the 1968 expansion draft. In the middle of the 1968 season, he was traded to the Detroit Pistons. 1970 marked the third time McLemore was selected in an expansion draft, this time by the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavailers then traded McLemore to the Milwaukee Bucks, where Eddie Doucette described him as “a good rebounder off the bench”. The Bucks waived McLemore in November 1971, and the Houston Rockets signed him in December 1971. The Rockets did not renew his contract for the 1972 season.

McLemore was a color analyst in the late 1980s for Rockets’ television broadcasts on Home Sports Entertainment.

Bob Wiesenhahn

Robert B. Wiesenhahn, Jr. is an American former professional basketball player.

A 6’4″, 220 lb. forward, Wiesenhahn was selected in the second round (11th overall) of the 1961 NBA draft by the Cincinnati Royals. He played one season, 1961–62, for the 43-37 Royals, and in 60 games he averaged 2.0 points and 1.9 rebounds per game.

The next season, 1962–63, he played for the American Basketball League, but the league folded in December 1962. Because of Wiesenhahn’s build, athleticism and reputation for hard-nosed play, even though he never played college football, he was offered a tryout by coach George Halas and the NFL’s Chicago Bears. However, with no financial guarantee and married with two children, Wiesenhahn passed on the offer.

Dennis Schröder

Dennis Schröder is a German professional basketball player known for playing with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has previously played for SG Braunschweig and Phantoms Braunschweig in Germany, before spending his first five seasons in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks and two years with the Oklahoma City Thunder. He is also known as the sole owner of his German hometown team Braunschweig of the Easycredit BBL, being the majority shareholder.