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Hot Rod Hundley

1934 - 2015

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Rodney Clark "Hot Rod" Hundley (October 26, 1934 – March 27, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and television broadcaster. Hundley played college basketball for the West Virginia Mountaineers and was selected by the Cincinnati Royals with the first overall pick of the 1957 NBA draft. In 2003, Hundley received the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Hundley's life revolved around the game of basketball. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hot Rod Hundley is the 78th most popular basketball player (up from 483rd in 2019), the 5,341st most popular biography from United States (up from 14,224th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Hot Rod Hundley ranks 78 out of 1,757. Before him are Modestas Paulauskas, Red Auerbach, Pete Maravich, Rick Barry, Petar Skansi, and Jānis Krūmiņš. After him are Rimas Kurtinaitis, Robert Parish, Zoran Slavnić, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, and Maurice Cheeks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Hot Rod Hundley ranks 265. Before him are Boris Volynov, Francisco J. Ayala, Tengiz Sigua, Harald Grønningen, Gergely Kulcsár, and Pierre Barouh. After him are Russ Tamblyn, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Alois Mock, Richard Swinburne, and Akira Takarada. Among people deceased in 2015, Hot Rod Hundley ranks 218. Before him are Nicolae Rainea, Roberto M. Levingston, Franjo Mihalić, Peter Dickinson, Qiao Shi, and Ibrahim Biogradlić. After him are Ninón Sevilla, Xu Caihou, Walter Burkert, Charb, Moira Orfei, and Michael Graves.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hot Rod Hundley ranks 5,341 out of 20,380. Before him are Arsenio Hall (1956), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Roseanne Barr (1952), Albert Ayler (1936), Jim Courier (1970), and Jimmy Douglas (1898). After him are John Tukey (1915), Oliver Kirk (1884), Jon Krakauer (1954), Kaʻahumanu (1768), Ward Bond (1903), and Norman Vincent Peale (1898).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Hot Rod Hundley ranks 48. Before him are Byron Scott (1961), John Stockton (1962), Metta World Peace (1979), Red Auerbach (1917), Pete Maravich (1947), and Rick Barry (1944). After him are Robert Parish (1953), Charles Barkley (1963), Maurice Cheeks (1956), Allen Iverson (1975), Nate Thurmond (1941), and A. C. Green (1963).

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