Pete Maravich - Unforgettable
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- Pete Maravich - Unforgettable.
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1avardac Picture him playing in the ABA during its inception it might have been just like him being in college.
My family lived in Baton Rouge during Pistol’s days at LSU. My dad was able to be at his “history making” game. One of my friends was his neighbor and occasionally got to play in a pickup game with him.
I’m so glad he found Christ.
Glad he found peace with the Lord. Bless his soul.
Man this video chokes me up, I could talk all day about past champions and past Hall of Famers but my most favorite no doubt if anyone asks me till this day its Pete Maravich. Much love pete
I loved Pete. He was a great great player who played the modern game 40 years ago. Best passer EVER and I have seen them all.
RIP Pete. You were wonderful to watch. Thanks for the great memories.
you're not forgotten. you pistol
He was "Magic" before Magic Johnson
Anthony C Yes he is SEC Basketball owes it existence to him!!!!!
Anthony C that was bob cousy
He may have been the personification of the entire Harlem Globetrotter team. He may be the only white Globetrotter in history.
@@paysonfox88 He was only White player that was asked to join the Globetrotters.
@Ray Smith He was Showtime before Magic!!!!!!!!
There's always debate over the "greatest" of all time, but Pete was the most entertaining without a doubt. He made me really love the game and for that i'm forever grateful!
If you never saw him play, these videos don't do justice but still love him. Definitely ahead of his time and could play in any Era.. God blessed us
I'm black and I don't care what anyone says.....GREATEST PG OF ALL TIME
"I'm black and I don't care what anyone says" what does being Black have to do with him being the greatest? Color has absolutely nothing to do with this,Pistol was amazing!
Nothing lol I'm just explaining how much respect I have for this man. Many would disagree based off ignorance , as humans we usually cheer for what looks like us. It's simple psychology my man.
+Dare2BeDifferent34
Good point. While Pete more often gets pegged as a SG, he really was a combo guard. As was West, Robertson, Frazier, Bing, Jo Jo White and more recently, Gary Payton. As Paul Westphal (another combo) once said "I'm a guard, not a point guard, not a shooting guard. " Back in Pete's (and Oscar's) day, you were expected to be able to distribute and score as needed.
+Dare2BeDifferent34 You're just being honest and true. I read Tom Seaver once said Hank Aaron was his favorite player growing up. Seaver said "I didn't find it strange that a white pitchers' favorite player was a black hitter." Excellence is excellence.
Dare2BeDifferent34 Pistol was ahead of his time it took Magic to come into the league and introduced that style of play,then it was accepted...
Pete was one of those stars who could excel playing in any era. Pete was great because he trained well. A tribute to "practice". Behind the back bounce pass with his left hand hitting the trailer on a fast break without either breaking stride. Even Jordan didn't do that.
Rick Reeves imagine Pete playing in the ABA!!!!
Rick was that a shot at Allen Iverson?????
+Dwight Love no, it is a tribute to Pete.
+Rick Reeves Okay
@@dwightlove3704 That clip still makes me laugh, though. "Prat
If Pistol was playing today, He would be making a lot of money in endorsements. I mean a lot of money
+tommy2chips Better believe it.
Now everyone makes a lot don’t matter if skill aha 100million for bench players
@@Amick44 He was the ORIGINAL STEPH CURRY with more size!!!!!!!!!!!
Who gives a fuck about endorsements and money!
the stuff he did in clinics was amazing!! I saw him at basketball camp. and he was spectacular! I will never forget him!!!!
Just love for the game
if e played today he would be a SUPERSTAR. great control, court awareness and very very sound fundamentally
The highlights of this guy don't do him justice. when I was a kid my uncle would take me to NBA games... he's ask me who I wanted to see... "Dr. J" "Bill Walton" "Gervin" , and I would always say, I wanted to see the Pistol!!! While he played with flash and flair... he was a humble and shy guy! One of the best I've ever seen. He above all the other greats could have played in every era!
And Dr J. confirmed what you said in his book.
I agree, Pistol was like no one else. Gervin, too in his own way.
Defintely agree with the Dr. J and Gervin. Magic was one of my favorite players too and Gervin was Highly respected by him... infact it is believed that Gervin gave Magic the the nickname "Buck" when Gervin schooled him for ++ points in a game either pickup or NBA game early on in Magic's career. Magic was kind of down and Gervin told him, "Cheer up young buck... you'll have your day!" Gervin was silky smooth!!!
+Coya Campbell He sure was. Gervin was ballet on the basketball floor. If their was ever a "beautiful" basketball player, it is Ice Man, George Gervin.
Pete was also a good broadcaster for CBS (albeit limited time). It would have been cool to see him with Kenny, Shaq, Chuck and Ernie Johnson these days. RIP Pistol Pete
Very keen court vision ill never forget You Pete simply the best
RIP Pistol. Drove me nuts when he scorched my Knicks. I’m happy you found Christ. Thanks for the memories. And Mrs. Maravich, we didn’t forget 🙏🏻❤️
Ι just found out about this guy and I am AMAZED.
HE WAS SOMETHING ELSE.
Dude is the all time scorer in NCAA history and that was without a 3 point line and during the era where freshmen were forced to sit out a year... He averaged nearly 45 points a game and it was within the flow of the game too... as you see in this video, he was an incredible passer too. He was a rare talent with the most incredible court vision. We're talking Oscar Robertson/Magic Johnson level of vision.
ive watched nba for over 50 yrs. , this man was the greatest ballhandler and pure shooter ive ever seen..I love mj, bird, magic, but pete one on one would have beat them. He really was the first magic..i miss him and my sympathies to his family ,losing him so young. Im sure hes still shooting around somewhere.
you idiots. 31 ppg while fg percentage 43 percent. These are allen iverson numbers. He was a shotjacker. You can claim he's the greatest shooter "but didn't have a 3 pt line!!! so who knows what he coulda done??" Well he did have a free throw line, and was just a good to very good ft shooter, but not like nash, price, rick barry, bird. 3 pt shooting and ft shooting often are indicators of the other stat...great ft shooter...often a great 3 pt shooter. He would have been a good 3 pt shooter, but no drazen petrovic, steve kerr, steph curry, mark price etc. Bird was a good 3 pt shooter and would have been better if the players and teams had played years with that rule, learned how to shoot it and incorporate into offense. But if they merely added it into the league say his rookie year, maybe his 3 pt numbers would be comparible to bird, a couple attempts a game, upper 3X percentage shooter. You have to shoot lots of 3s to get on a roll to get your percentage up, make 8 out of 13 or something to make up for 1 for 6 nights. If you only shoot 2-3 a game it's tough to get over 40 percent, so it's amazing bird did shoot over 40 percent with his low 3 pt attempts per game average. testament to a truly great shooter. Sorry to digress but the point is merely adding that rule in pistol's rookie year wouldn't have GREATLY impacted his scoring unless he had steph curry range (doubtful considering he didn't grow up on it) AND his coaches gave him the green light to shoot 10 a game. I think this argument is very dubious. Rick barry was an elite shooter, but the rule was added to the ABA and was new to him, he was only a 30 percent 3 pt shooter (could have been elite I'm sure if he grew up on it).
@@johncraftenworth7847 They introduced the 3 point line his second to last season in the NBA. He shot 63.6% from 3 that season. The following season (his last), he shot 75% from 3. During that season's playoffs, he only shot 33.3% from 3. I think he was injury prone his last few seasons and shot count was low, so it's not an ideal indicator, but is some indicator.
His fg % is only 3 points lower than Curry's and 5 lower than Nash's.
His ft % was .82.
Furthermore, his career high season stats for each shooting category have multiple seasons that are higher than each of the players you mentioned.
Long story short, he appears to be among the best shooters in NBA history.
danny Last REINCARNATED and memory erased after he sees the light and tunnel in so called heaven by the Brothers of the serpent not remembering this life like everyone else into another life and recyles over and over. Religion and governments were made to keep us imprisoned on Earth and in human form by these crooked god beings having us believe that we are NOT gods which we are and worshipping some other god who is no different then us in the jewish, christian god, Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, Buddah etc.,
@@asianfighter62 A bunch of nonsense that you made up.
@@johncraftenworth7847 If he was a shitty shot how in the hell did he AVERAGE over 40 points per game all 3 of his eligible years at LSU? He was so good that he was featured on the evening news while in college. Who else has had that honor? Pete was great no matter what you believe.
One of my favorite players
great player
thats really just chilling to me...thanks for posting that. I was lucky enough to know Pete and work with the Jazz as a kid, what an honor. Bless his sons and family.
I found the right word....divine. God blessed Pete with a gift. I’m so glad that Pete learned where the gift came from before he died. Praise Jesus.
I saw him once in the Super Dome in 1976. Was amazed the next morning to find out
he had scored 50. It was so effortless you could easily lose track of how amazing he was. A treasured memory now.
Thank you for posting this outstanding and touching video.
You don't have to win a championship to be great.
Hope his family is well.
Thank you lord Jesus that he found you.
Give it a rest.
@@yankee2666 Take your own advice.
@@aChristian4RonPaul He's not the one constantly forcing ideologies on people and criticising people based on strictly religious beliefs.
@@lukaz3336 So you know him personally? No? So, then you just make stuff up on the internet. Got it.
When you actually know what you're talking about, speak up.
One of the GOATs. Greatest handles of all time
My favorite player of all time.RIP. Can’t wait to meet you in person someday.
The best. Pete Maravich "The pistol"
When he used to play H.O.R.S.E at halftime, he was toying with his competition. He had supreme confidence. Still remember watching him when I was a kid about 6th grade. I used to go outside and practice his moves.
Pete I recognize you as a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ and so do many others. R.I.P.
What an inspiration.
WAY ahead of his time!!!!! ONE OF THE TOP 10 Players of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU FUCKING WISH BUDDY.
TOP 10 G.O.A.T.
1. Michael Jordan
2. Kobe Bryant
3. Tim Duncan
4. LeBron James
5. Magic Johnson
6. Larry Bird
7. Charles Barkley
8. Allen Iverson
9. Shaquille O'neal
10. Julius Erving
Don't even try & give me your Pistol Pete, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, George Gervin or any CRAP LIKE THAT! ACCEPT THE TRUTH!
We agree to disagree... I saw Maravich and Jordan in their primes... You'd be shocked to see what Maravich could do. Iverson looked the closest to his talents. Look up what Maravich did at LSU. Jordan wasn't even the second best player on his team at Carolina... AND I A HUGE CAROLINA FAN!
Coya Campbell Actually as overall players, I'd say Isiah Thomas and Reggie Theus are the closest to Pete.
@@MrYnoter idiot much?
the original Magic
An American original... a dazzler... but most of all, a brother in Christ. God bless the Maravich family.
Larry Legend said while watching a hoop game on tv with his dad, he saw this guy Pistol doing things with a basketball he had never seen done before and was amazed. Before there was 'showtime' there was Pistol.
FZR He was Showtime before Magic!!!!!
Yes, and Larry went on to surpass Pete in basketball greatness!
@@johncraftenworth7847 Not quite John Craftenworth.
He had a similar stroke........
The word is awesome...wow would have fit right in todays NBA...What a showman!!
I'll never forget watching him when I was a kid, simply awe struck.
RIP to Pistol Pete Maravich
Thinking bout you, Pistol!! Much love...
GOAT
The best scorer and passer of his time. I still remember when he torched the NY Knicks for about 60 points back in the 70's. Great player with moves ahead of his time.
68 points. Several from behind the "arc" before it even existed.
Still one of my favorite videos. The miracle of Pete's life... the inspiration it is to so many who search through meaningless pursuits that only leave emptiness even when we reach the goal we think we were shooting for. I was walking about 2 blocks from where he was playing ball that day in 1988 with Dobson. I was praying, feeling discouraged that I wasn't really hearing God's spirit speak to me. I knew very little about pete then. While I played ball ( with one eye... at Oregon State I was on the court with people like AC Green, Radford etc. in games here and there. I was hitting like 65% from nba 3 point line in those days and dunking fairly well for a 6' white guy with short arms :-) ) I just hadn't watched a lot of it and somehow Pete was just a guy in the guiness book of records to me. In his hawks uniform listed as the highest paid player that year.
But that day I had a thought about Pete and like how long he was going to be around. I didn't really have another thought I could recall as I was praying there 2 blocks from the Nazarene building (I grew up in a nazarene fellowship and have gone there before but in 1988 I was what you would call 'non denominational' and I had no clue that Pete was there that day).
Anyway I got back home to Eugene a few days later and saw the newspaper. That was the first I'd seen of Pete's passing. I was blown away of course that he was dying there 2 blocks away from where I was praying when I had a thought like that. I told friends in the Neuroscience department near where I worked and my friend pointed me to a wall in the room next door where he had put up a thing about Pete's testimony!
I continued to..and continue to this day to play basketball and have shared the gospel with many people I've played with. I've seen God work supernatural things in games I've played and in my own body. It took til 48 years of age before my knees started to give me trouble where I couldn't get over the rim anymore for a while. Now they're gradually getting better again. Who knows? God knows :-). He has a purpose in all things. He knows what the best thing is to draw each of us to a place of turning away from the worthless things of this life to the spiritual relationship he has for each of us.
sounddoctorin m
Thank you for sharing.
See, this is what happens when you're so ahead of your time that not even your teammates are even on the same planet as you are. I don't give a flyin f-ck of where you come from, what race you are, what spectrum of color you fall into; if you are good at what you do I have nothing but the up most respect. Pistol Pete was sick!!!
Ahead of his time lol SMH, in your fucking dreams! Julius Erving was ahead of his time! Get the fuck out of here with your Pistol Pete crap.
Yes, they both were; so what's the problem. If you can't comment with fuckin common courtesy then shut the fuck up and don't comment.
What did I just see at 2:18???
+MrYnoter Erving says they both were the prime game changers. He and Pete.
+D. Pack Much respect to both. Too bad Pete had the major knee injury his 8th season, which in essence ended his career. Erving, like Robertson and Havlicek, stayed relatively (major) injury free and had a long career. David Thompson suffered a similar early ending like Pete. Too bad for both.
Unbelievable shot a 2:30. Double clutch hanging in the air, nothing but net. In a GAME, not horse.
Vision, ability , skill......second to none... could easily play in any era... yes easily...
Naravno da je najbolji. Ipak je on Srbin!
The greatest playmaker this game has ever seen. Like Magic said himself... lots of the stuff he did he got from Pete. 🐐
I watches pistol pete as a kid growing up. To this day I have never seen anyone that ever played like him. He was one of the greatest ever. Magic Johnson learned from his innovations.
its not fair to compare Pete to a human being..he was truly supernatural....above the normal human..RIP brother.
lovely piece...thank you for sharing.
ONE OF MY IDOLS
Your legacy lives on Pete Maravich...The best are never forgotten especially when they have a name like Pistol Pete.
For those of you too young to remember Pete: We’ve seen players who were astonishing in driving to the hoop. We’ve seem phenomenal passers (Magic). We’ve seen deadly three point shooters (Steph). Pete was all three of these things wrapped up in one package. At the peak of his pro career, when after several years of development he finally became the best player in the NBA, he promptly blew out his knee. An amazing and tragic career. In many ways he was to basketball what Barry Sanders was to football-there will never be another.
who would dislike this video?!
Well said!
A bunch of twelve year olds who think "Kyrie Irving is way better then this guy" not realizing that without Pistol Pete, there may never have been players like Jason Williams, Magic Johnson, and Kyrie Irving. His moves sparked the imaginations of future stars, just like the Kyrie Irving's of the NBA do now.
Kyle Meyers
And imagine his (black?) team-mates thought he was too much of a showboat and didn't like him? WOW unbelievable.
Are you fucking serious? Kyrie Irving would kill him, he wouldn't be able to keep up with his speed & ball handling skills. Kyrie would break his ankles every possesion. Pistol Pete was a good player no disrespect to the guy but there's no fucking way he'd be able to play in todays game, much less in the the 90's. He was no way in hell ahead of his time like Julius Erving & a few other players.
MrYnoter sorry man, you didn't understand what I was saying. I'm not saying Pistol Pete was better than Kyrie, you're right that Kyrie is way more athletic and quicker. I was just making the point that younger fans will look at this video and think, "this pistol Pete guy sucks" but it's guys like Pistol Pete and Dr. J. and Magic who sparked the imagination of players like Kyrie Irving and made him push himself to be better. Kyrie is definitely a better athlete, but without the players who pushed the limits before him he may have never reached the level he's at now. That's all I was saying. I wasn't saying Pistol Pete would beat Kyrie Irving in one on one if they were both in their primes...that's dumb.
They talk about Lebron and Michael but TRULY Pete Maravich was the best ever..!
You're out of your damn mind if you believe that, say no to drugs.
@@dollyfrazier5885 Michael Jordan the stupid gambling golf player had no love for the game like pistol pete did and you sit here not give him credit you Jordan fans make me sick. This guy literally died playing basketball and its is too say that when someone not dead. Note he did have sucky teams though its not his falt
@@iiTzLurks lf we make you sick l suggest you go to emergency. Don't get me wrong Pete M was one of the greatest in his time, But he couldn't carry Micheal J nor Labron J jock strap
my no. 1 ball handler
same here 👊🏼
@@p.atrickclarke iverson?
@@dimitrijejakovljevic9769 handler* pete had moves and handles ain't nobody had and seen ever! Handling moves and craft on and off the court but the way iverson PLAYED and crossovered is incomparable
Pete was incredible and left an indelible mark on the game. I saw him in 1971 against the Knicks in MSG...I was just 11 but I remember it!
Pete grew up with the game, a true coaches son. On top of that Pete practiced constantly until he became so good that he changed the game. What Pete was doing in high school in North Carolina nobody had ever seen before. That era set the tone for his career: Pete was unbelievable but he played on a bad team. I think if Pete was playing now he'd be doing things above and beyond what players do today on the court.
One of the very best of alltime
He is the greatest of all time!,🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
HE DEFINITELY HAD HANDLES...ONE
OF THE GREATEST OF ALL TIMES
The real NBA showman.
The Underground CAVE )
If Magic Johnson and Red Auerbach say pistol was that good, he had to have been nothing short of phenomenal on the basketball court,
What a shame he didn't go straight to the Boston Celtics out of college, with Red coaching him and the great Celtic teams around him imagine how great he would have done.
Uncle Quack Whats also a shame is he never played for a big college program like a UCLA or Kentucky that would’ve built on his skills, his Dad had all the control over him and his college career
@@jennifersman7990 .u
I have watched his movie the pistol couple of decades ago... Amazing movie... He's a great player.....
he is the reason why i play basketball passionately. =)
Thanks Pete, for all, missed, but still enjoying, thanks for one of my happiest summers, never forget!
Pistol Pete what an amazing basketball legend, I grew up watching and trying to learn the way he played, just amazing!
The man that made me enjoy the game like no one else. Baylor too, though didn;t see him live.
At the end of Pete’s sophomore year Red Auerbach said Pete was ready for the Pros. This was at a time almost no one went before they completed 4 years.
Much of what we see today in basketball we expect to see. What most do not know is that Pete created many of the moves that we have come to take for granted when no one expected to see them. More than the moves, his was a gracefulness and seeming defiance of gravity that presented to the eye something more balletic and sense defying than even Naismith could foresee.
Pete was just awesome. Best ball handler ever. Go tigers.
greatest ballhandler of all time. think about , he avg. 44 points a game ( without a 3 pt line).
as to the hate of Lanier talking about him being white. he transcended race on the court and made everyone look foolish ( no discrimination).
he was magic before magic.
as the 80's classic said he was poetry in motion.
RIP " Pistol"
He certainly worked at the ball handling skill drills his father taught him harder than anyone else.
you idiots. 31 ppg while fg percentage 43 percent. These are allen iverson numbers. He was a shotjacker. You can claim he's the greatest shooter "but didn't have a 3 pt line!!! so who knows what he coulda done??" Well he did have a free throw line, and was just a good to very good ft shooter, but not like nash, price, rick barry, bird. 3 pt shooting and ft shooting often are indicators of the other stat...great ft shooter...often a great 3 pt shooter. He would have been a good 3 pt shooter, but no drazen petrovic, steve kerr, steph curry, mark price etc. Bird was a good 3 pt shooter and would have been better if the players and teams had played years with that rule, learned how to shoot it and incorporate into offense. But if they merely added it into the league say his rookie year, maybe his 3 pt numbers would be comparible to bird, a couple attempts a game, upper 3X percentage shooter. You have to shoot lots of 3s to get on a roll to get your percentage up, make 8 out of 13 or something to make up for 1 for 6 nights. If you only shoot 2-3 a game it's tough to get over 40 percent, so it's amazing bird did shoot over 40 percent with his low 3 pt attempts per game average. testament to a truly great shooter. Sorry to digress but the point is merely adding that rule in pistol's rookie year wouldn't have GREATLY impacted his scoring unless he had steph curry range (doubtful considering he didn't grow up on it) AND his coaches gave him the green light to shoot 10 a game. I think this argument is very dubious. Rick barry was an elite shooter, but the rule was added to the ABA and was new to him, he was only a 30 percent 3 pt shooter (could have been elite I'm sure if he grew up on it).
John Craftenworth Pete had a 3point line during his last year as a bench player for the Celtics and shot 66%. That’s past his prime after all his injuries. During his prime he was hitting long range bombs when he didn’t have to, quit talking out of your ass
skoric sounds serbian...something makes me think you're far from unbiased in talking about maravic
I don't view what Lanier said as hate inspired. I considered it more as an observation as to how different Pistol was in regards to white players of that era. White players as well as most of their black counterparts of that era played a more fundemental type of game. As opposed to what Pistol and Earl the Pearl and some others were doing. Pistol had more of a inner city game. So stop thinking everything is race related, sometimes it's no more than an erudite or humor inspired perception of things.
Pete tops the list of athletes I wish I were old enough to have watched. He was truly ahead of his time.
I was stationed in the Navy with Maravich's cousin, and she was absolutely flabbergasted by all I knew about him. The greatest ballhandler ever, and I've seen them all!
Loved watching Pete Maravitch. He came into the league at the same time I discovered basketball at 12 yrs. of age and I was hooked for the rest of my life. Years later, another white kid would make me jump off my seat with his magnificent ball handling. Jason Williams was so good he demanded your constant attention. It was almost as if there was nobody else in the court when he was playing.
I knew he could ball, but he was before my time...DAYUM! What a beautiful, stylistic game he had... and a heart--defective or not-- to match. Great baller AMAZING human being. ❤
I can tell you boys, the Pistol was by far the most incredible basketball player I have ever seen. So imaginative, so cool wearing his grey floppy socks along with pro keds....I saw him driving a red convertible Cadillac when he showed up at the Omni one Sat morning....boys, he was a legend and cannot tell you what an incredible athelete he was.....
This was one spectacular video! I had the pleasure of watching 'Pistol Pete' in his early NBA days and he was always one of my top 5 favorite. His skills and showmanship would be celebrated today as the video stated so in some ways, he arrived on the scene a few year too early to be fully appreciated. Bill Russell and the Celtics of the 1960s cast a huge shadow on how teams and players should behave and play together.
Was just outstanding. So fun watch. When he was playing he was part of the basketball. He and the ball seemed in sink. God rest your soul Peat.
He didn’t live a long life. But the years he lived. Gone too soon.
PETE WAS UNBELIEVABLE,I WATCH SOME OF HIS VIDEO STILL.HE WAS BEFORE BIRD AND SHOWTIME!!R.I.P
He was simply amazing!
"he musta had some brotha in him!" love that! i believe it! pistol was a brotha, only he was white!
My all time fave. He was so far ahead of his time its unbelievable. His passing ability was second to none
haven't forgot about you Big P..... an inspiration to so many kids out on the court today.
The best part of the video for me was hearing he found the Lord, after searching all those other false religions, and cults! Say what you want people, but I know The Lord God, of all can change your life!
Amen. No accomplishment will ever to compare to him(or anyone else for that matter) knowing Jesus Christ as Saviour.
El Dee Amen!
you mean, that only people who were born after Jesus Christ had the possibility of finding the "true" religion, so basically, for most of human history, we were just out of luck because the "true" religion had not been founded yet? haha gotta love religious people xD
Nothing I say will make you change, only God an change your heart. Get back to me one day, if the Lord has changed you, and brought you into his heart. For example, when I look at tree's, humans, the ocean or a hummingbird, etc.. I see God, even though I have never met him. Other;s see these things, and pass them off, and do not care where they came from, or who made them? What I see is God in all things, and if I was not saved would be judged one day accordingly! For the one that finds God nowhere, especially in his heart, will be judged justly as well in that day.
This is the answer to your question: All people are accountable to God whether or not they have “heard about Him.” The Bible tells us that God has clearly revealed Himself in nature (Romans 1:20) and in the hearts of people (Ecclesiastes 3:11). The problem is that the human race is sinful; we all reject this knowledge of God and rebel against Him (Romans 1:21-23). If it were not for God's grace, we would be given over to the sinful desires of our hearts, allowing us to discover how useless and miserable life is apart from Him. He does this for those who continually reject Him (Romans 1:24-32).
In reality, it is not that some people have not heard about God. Rather, the problem is that they have rejected what they have heard and what is readily seen in nature. Deuteronomy 4:29 proclaims, “But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.” This verse teaches an important principle-everyone who truly seeks after God will find Him. If a person truly desires to know God, God will make Himself known.
The problem is “there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God” (Romans 3:11). People reject the knowledge of God that is present in nature and in their own hearts, and instead decide to worship a “god” of their own creation. It is foolish to debate the fairness of God sending someone to hell who never had the opportunity to hear the gospel of Christ. People are responsible to God for what God has already revealed to them. The Bible says that people reject this knowledge, and therefore God is just in condemning them to hell.
Instead of debating the fate of those who have never heard, we, as Christians, should be doing our best to make sure they do hear. We are called to spread the gospel throughout the nations (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8). We know people reject the knowledge of God revealed in nature, and that must motivate us to proclaim the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ. Only by accepting God’s grace through the Lord Jesus Christ can people be saved from their sins and rescued from an eternity apart from God.
If we assume that those who never hear the gospel are granted mercy from God, we will run into a terrible problem. If people who never hear the gospel are saved, it is logical that we should make sure no one ever hears the gospel. The worst thing we could do would be to share the gospel with a person and have him or her reject it. If that were to happen, he or she would be condemned. People who do not hear the gospel must be condemned, or else there is no motivation for evangelism. Why run the risk of people possibly rejecting the gospel and condemning themselves when they were previously saved because they had never heard the gospel?
António Antunes Jesus always was, always is and always will be-
The true religion was practiced right from the beginning of time when man had submit to God knowing that a savior would one day be born- that was what they put hteir faith in= All other religions came After. The prophets knew and talked about Christ 1000's or years before He was born because God revealed Him to them- and the key to salvation, and to being part of the one true religion was always to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ - Mock if you will- but one day you WILL know the truth- and hopefully it is BEFORE You meet God face to face- because if you meet Him WITHOUT CHrist as your Savior, things aint gonna be too good for you I'm afraid
So many people complicate their life by analyzing everything instead of just enjoying being alive and being satisfied and happy.
Oh, shut up, Anthony Robbins.
Watching basketball in the Sixties, Pistol Pete was my 2nd favorite player.
Wilt is always #1.
During the warm-ups for a Atlanta Hawks vs Portland Trailblazers game, I was on the baseline, watching Maravich, when a rebound bounced right to me, I looked up and made eye contact with Pete, threw a perfect bounce pass to him and he swished it from 20 feet. I made an assist to one of my idols ! It was fantastic.
We miss him a lot.
A genius way ahead of his time
Being great at anything, does not bring you the internal happiness that we all seek. Only when you find Jesus Christ, do you truly find the kind of happiness that fills that void that each of us has. So glad that Pete found Christ. He is a great example to all of us.
he ahead of his time.today he would be the face of the nba.
Being born again was the pinnacle of his life.Praise G-d.
NO ONE CAN PASS LIKE HIM,EVEN IF MAGIC CAN'T DO
That's not true
Thanks for the video! I grew up a LSU fan and watched Pistol play. It was something to behold. Man, if there had been a three point line back then, LSU would probably had national championship. Not sure about that but when he cross center court you had better been defending him! RIP Pistol
Pete got it right in the end of his life unlike so many who never find or accept what he did before it is too late.What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Don’t mourn for Pete he is more alive and more talented and blessed now than anyone can imagine.He is in Heaven with his savior and Heavenly Father involved in all sorts of wonderfully activities that no earthly basketball game could ever match.His hearts desire is that his sons family and all humanity follow his end of life after basketball story .Come to where I am please accept the gift of God eternal life.
Pistol Pete was "Showtime" long before Magic's Showtime. He was never afraid to try something no one else did in an NBA game.
Someone should take all of the available CZcamss of Pete and remaster them into one incredible video. A lot of younger people need to see his greatness in "4K" as the youngins' call it now.
Got him on nba2k, first I was thinking he was bad because I took hard shoots and expected fast release, but now I can use him in both positions and get 25 points and like 10 assist. So good at driving and handling. He has range but dont shoot to much with him amazing freethrow and passing.
WAAAAAAAAY ahead of his time.