Fat Lever: The Best NBA Point Guard you’ve NEVER HEARD OF | FPP
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- He’s become one of the most under the radar players in NBA history; one that’s never talked about when it comes to the best 80s point guards, or the greatest stat sheet stuffers in NBA history. Lafayette “Fat” Lever retired with the 5th most triple doubles of all time and had one of the best, yet least talked about 4 year stretches of any player in NBA history. He was an Arizona basketball legend starting at Pueblo High School to spending 4 years with the Arizona State Sun Devils; playing alongside future NBA Players like Alton Lister and Byron Scott. He started in the NBA with the Post Bill Walton Portland Trailblazers and was a promising young player alongside Clyde Drexler. But in the summer of 1984, the Nuggets would trade Kiki Vandeweghe to the Blazers and in return the Blazers received Fat Lever among others. So Lever would spend the next 6 years alongside Alex English as one of the Leaders of the 80s run n gun Denver Nuggets. But as Michael Adams emerged, the Nuggets decided to go in another direction in the early 90s. They would trade Lever to Dallas where he would join forces with Rolando Blackman and Derek Harper. But Chronic knee issues caught up to him, and he could barely stay on the court in Dallas; and when he was on the court, he was not the same player. His career ended quietly in 1994 at the age of 33, and do this day, his career is largely overlooked, which is baffling, as Fat Lever did everything on offense, and was one of the best defenders in the league, as he would even finish top 10 in MVP and Defensive Player of the year voting on multiple occasions, and that’s deserves some recognition.
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Fat Lever visited my college basketball team when I was a young freshman. First thing we notice is how short he was. But, he was an outstanding guard for Denver.
7:38 please do a video on Kiki Vandeweghe
Byron Scott would be cool to highlight. Great vids!!!
He's another one of those guys that were decent in his era but would be great in today's game
Great is a stretch
Nah, not a stretch.
@@kenw2225 it’s a stretch he would be exactly what he was during his own era
He look like Skip To My Lou honestly
Facts
Yup!
The old school Westbrook
Perfect description
You beat me to it
I always have Lever as my starting point guard when I assemble the all time Denver squad.
U better have Abdul Rauf in there somewhere too
Nice work on a great forgotten player. Love your work!! My son is getting his nba history lesson on this channel and I get a nostalgic look back at my youth!!
Please consider
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I'm glad the nuggets put his number and name in Retirement in team history. As a nuggets fan and a kid the 80 nuggets were fun to watch. The nugget needs to do Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf next
Fat Lever was the man in Denver in the 80 s 20 th st Gym was famous for great hooping not anybody could get in and play there you had to be good to play thanks for the memories Fat blessings man
Bob Lanier NEEDS a video
I remember seeing Fat Lever advance kid and saying to myself "he doesn't look fat to me". Hahahahaha I'm glad to learn the story behind the name. I was sure it had something to do with his name Lafayette (being from Louisiana a lot of schools and places and things are named Lafayette).
I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Sonics and Blazers fan. Japanese-American and male. Could Fat Levy dunk? I was a STIFF, who didn't have cable TV growing up, so I was relegated to Sonics road games, and national TV games. Blazers fans rue the Kiki Vandeweghe trade, and Lever is the key reason why.
Fat Lever was automatic from 3 on Sega Genesis Lakers Vs. Celtics!
Lol that's throwback he sure was
Fat dope and really good on nba 2k as well.
Best channel out !!!!!!!!!
Charles Oakley and Michael Cage would be 2 players to make a episode on..
Love the channel bro, can you please do a video on Travis Outlaw or Maurice Cheeks?
You do such a great job with these vids man. Love the content you provide!
Finally learned the origins of his name. Thank you. Wild he was a triple double machine!
Lafayette and Alton Lister were a force to be reconned with at ASU.
keep these vids coming first heard of fat lever he was a beast at point guard love watching players I never heard of
The man almost had a quadruple double on MJ's head in '88...💪
Been waiting for this one
Your channel is awesome
Lafayette "Fat" Lever. He played with Byron Scott at ASU.
so I’m a Phoenix Arizona resident. I’m at the gym where i work/workout and see someone on their phone in the empty basketball courts. I wanted to shoot some free pillows, but didn’t want to be too loud as he was on his phone shortly. He and I spoke and I had no idea who he was for our whole conversation. we started talking about Arizona basketball legends ( which are so little) I said multiple people except FAT LEVER to his face ! he tells me to look up number 12 in the rafters . i didn’t find his info or even put 2 and 2 together. im watching a mavs and nuggets game then outta nowhere he joins there broadcast team ! he looked so different from his playing days . the guy is so lowkey but a true nice guy. AZ in the house !!
This man should have been the starter of the team that faced the Suns. That season, HE alone in that first round could have won the match up.
Hall of Fame stats.
Imagine Prime Lever and Drexler 😮
Thank you 😊
Lever and English went from Denver to Dallas and just kinda disappeared in Dallas.
He was a beast
Pueblo high finest!! 🔥🔥
He and Adam’s together was a problem! You could say his play helped Adam’s become a big time scorer
WTF it’s going on with modern society? It’s ADAMS, not ADAM’S. Plural, not possessive! WHY ARE YOU PUTTING THAT IN A LAST NAME?! That’s even worse. Stop being mentally lazy, ignorant and uneducated! IT’S NOT A FCUKING FLEX! People are writing NOBODY’S instead of NOBODIES. CANDY’S instead of CANDIES. Etc. Michael ADAMS is his name. Not ADAM’S, which would be brainless to think. EDUCATE YOURSELF.. Be better.
ADAMS, not ADAM’S. It’s a last name. You’re not describing something using the possessive form of APOSTROPHE PLUS S
Yes them Nuggets used to put up big numbers
I know Fat Lever!
Not only have I heard of fat, he was one of my favorites.
He was a solid player.
I never heard of him at all!!!! This shall be good!!!
Great player!
Real Hittaz Know Lafayette
Imagine what Fat Lever would do today
First comment! Great video! First viewer too
Walking triple double, its crazy I was gonna ask you to do a video of him because nooooo one knows how good he was
I AM NOT NO ONE. Many of us aren’t no one. Real ones know. Casuals do not.
Great channel. Recently subscribed.
Here is a great forgotten player.....Dan Roundfield.
I wonder if Rafer "Skip To My Lou" Alston was influenced by Fat Lever. They have a similar style and he has the same jersey number.
Underrated player
This was a great video! also could we get a new football forgetten player video?
Wow to think that Fat Lever and Clyde the Glide were on the same team at some point, they could have gone far
Danny Ainge is a real shady player on this channel. A sort of main character in the background in many videos. :)
Great player and with jason kid one of best rebounding guards. Playing in an era when a triple double actualy meant something. Not taking away from westbrook but getting a triple in the days of bigs was way way tougher.
Jason KIDD, not *Kid
Yes and no. Playing for those Nuggets teams kind of cancels out the era adjustment. There were insane amounts of possessions and numbers to go around.
He Reminds me of rafer alston
I didn't realize he retired that young.
Blue edwards, Rick fox
Can you make a video on Michael Adams please
Hall of fame
What if the Rockets traded Sampson to Portland for Lever, Drexler and no.2 pick( Jordan)
💯
Drexler was drafted in 1983.
2:01 lmao howd he get both of them to bite that hard
A good player for you to do next is Marcus Thorton dude averaged 20 ppg one year 18 ppg the next then fell off
Josh smith ..Joe dumars ..Kiki vandewghe
Mark price to
Oh yeah i know about Lafayette Lever
1 more thing! Ask Russ if he doesn't know how this MAN is?
Let me just say."Nash and Kidd" are in this same conversation.
All three know West. O, and Havlicek.
#Underrated!
HOW this man is? You mean WHO this man is. Learn to proofread
Lamond murray?
Did you do Sean Eliott
Yea they did
ELLIOTT. Double L, double T
@@PetrodollarDealEndedSoWakeUp 😂 it’s not that serious but thanks
only player to avg 14 6 6 & 2 steals for a career
Who allowed the most points his 1st season in Denver
Denver improved their defense after some offense heavy years ‼️ 13:45- YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE not one, not two, but THREE Nuggets candidates for DPOY‼️ And Lever was THIRD out of the 3‼️
Look like rafer Alston dad