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www.si.com/nba/2022/02/22/nba-one-minute-club-daily-coverIn the annals of the NBA record book, there are countless mentions of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, LeBron James and Steph Curry. But, in the smallest of fine print, there is also Cedric Hunter. In December, the former guard found himself watching a Celtics-Warriors game with one of his twin 11-year-old boys, Trenton, who wanted to know the answer to the age-old debate: Who is the greatest NBA player of all time?
Hunter, 57, replied that people have different opinions. But his son, not satisfied, pushed his father further: “Were you better than Michael Jordan?” Hunter, amused by the question, responded: “No. Michael Jordan was on a whole different level.”
Hunter was the starting point guard at Kansas during the team’s 1985–86 Final Four season. He went on to star in the Continental Basketball Association and, on Feb. 14, 1992, got a call from his coach with the Omaha Racers, Mike Thibault (now the GM-coach of the WNBA’s Mystics). With Rex Chapman out with a foot injury, the Charlotte Hornets needed a point guard and wanted to sign Hunter to a 10-day contract.
Two days later Hunter made his NBA debut, playing one minute—technically 48 seconds, he makes sure to clarify—in garbage time of a 17-point win over the Heat. Hunter finished the game, and his NBA career, without any counting stats. “Man, I should have just fouled somebody,” he jokes. All he kept from his NBA days—and it was just that, a few days—was a practice T-shirt and a matching pair of shorts.
After his stint, Hunter went back to the CBA and eventually resettled in the Omaha area, where he is currently a behavioral interventionist at Boys Town Day School, working with high school students who are temporarily pulled out of class. It’s a job he takes great pride in; he credits his experience as a point guard for developing his ability to effectively communicate with different types of people.
Hunter doesn’t bring up his basketball career to his students. But he’s grown accustomed to them Googling his name and asking questions—which he uses as a teaching lesson: “It’s not about the destination,” he says. “It’s about the journey.”
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Damned injury jinx…
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Ced-Rock! (As my buddies and I used to yell in the Fieldhouse)
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hoshi wrote: Cedric and free throws, now that was an adventure.
The only weakness in his game. Worst FT shooting PG I can ever recall seeing.
One of the worst FT shooters I have ever seen regardless of position.
But could he ever get to the hoop — or find the open guy if he couldn’t get there.
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