Explorers in The NBA
La Salle has an extensive history of players who played professional basketball, including:
- Michael Brooks, 1980 College Player of the Year
- "Jellybean" Joe Bryant, father of current pro Kobe Bryant
- Rasual Butler, currently playing with the Toronto Raptors
- Larry Cannon
- Ken Durrett
- Bobby Fields
- Tom Gola, NBA Hall of Famer, 1955 College Player of the Year
- Tim Legler, current basketball analyst for ESPN, 4th all-time in NBA three-point shooting percentage
- Gary Neal, currently playing with the San Antonio Spurs
- Doug Overton
- Jim Phelan
- Lionel Simmons, 1990 College Player of the Year
- Steven Smith, currently playing in Greece's A1 Ethniki
- Fatty Taylor
- Randy Woods
- Bernie Williams
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Famous quotes containing the word explorers:
“The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)