GUS JOHNSON NBA HALL OF FAME CAREER | GUS JOHNSON NBA CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Gus "Honeycomb" Johnson's style of play - a unique  blend of grace, speed, strength, and creativity   rarely seen during his era - became the model for  future athletic power forwards. He scored, played   defense, and leaped so high in traffic that other  players claimed to hear him jump. Johnson was one   of the first players to fly above the rim on both  offense and defense making an immediate impact   on the NBA after being drafted by the Baltimore  Bullets with the 10th pick in the 1963 NBA Draft. In 1963-64, Johnson was selected to the  NBA All-Rookie First Team along with Hall   of Famers Jerry Lucas and Nate Thurmond. Gus  was also selected to the All-NBA Second Team   four times and the All-NBA Defensive First Team  twice. Johnson averaged a double-double in points   and rebounds (17.1 point per game and 12.7 rebound  per game) for all ten of his NBA seasons, scoring   1,000 points and grabbing 1,000 rebounds in the  same season three times. He was a five-time NBA   All Star and made the All-NBA Second Team four  times in his career (1965, 1966, 1970, 1971). A key component of the Baltimore Bullets of  the mid-1960s and early 1970s, he led the   Bullets to five playoff appearances in nine  seasons including the 1971 NBA Finals along   with Wes Unseld and Earl Monroe, where they were  swept by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Oscar Robertson,   and the Milwaukee Bucks. Playing on a team with  Hall of Famers George McGinnis, Mel Daniels,   and Roger Brown, Gus and the Indiana  Pacers won the ABA Championship in 1973.   This was during the last year of  Johnson’s professional basketball career. Johnson was a sculpted model of strength and yet  he could handle the ball, take it to the hoop,   pass, and rebound with advanced skill. His  physique and basketball skill cause some   to compare Gus to LeBron James. Johnson  was also a tenacious, lock-down defender. Gus died from inoperable brain cancer in  1987, twenty-three years before the Hall   of Fame was to induct him and call Johnson  one of its own. Before he died, Gus would   tell others that he knew he would make the Hall  of Fame one day. It was just a matter of time.

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