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Named the 1992-93 NBA Most Valuable Player... Led the Suns in scoring (25.6 ppg), rebounds (928) and assists (385) in 1992-93... Selected to his seventh consecutive NBA All-Star appearance... Member of the gold medal-winning 1992 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team... Selected as MVP of the 1991 NBA All-Star Game.
William "The Bird" Averitt was the NCAA major college scoring champion his senior season at Pepperdine averaging 33.9 points per game. An exciting player who displays a wide assortment of unusual moves, he was named Player of the Year in the West Coast Athletic Conference and MVP at Pepperdine after breaking all the WCAC scoring records. Bird once scoreð 59 points as a freshman and 57 points as a junior.
Though Miami has struggled like the rest of the late-1980s expansion teams, the Heat became the first of that group to reach the NBA Playoffs with a 1992 berth. Another proud moment in franchise history came at the 1993 NBA All-Star Weekend when rookie guard Harold Miner emerged as the NBA Slam-Dunk Champion. DID YOU KNOW? The Heat had never beaten the Los Angeles Lakers - and the Lakers had never lost to a recent expansion team at the Forum - before Miami ended both streaks by sweeping the 1992-93 series 2-0. With an average age of 25.24 years in 1992-93, Miami is the youngest team in the NBA. SCORECARD. The most enigmatic game in team history came January 20, 1993, when after a season-high 70 first-half points, the Heat were held to a franchise low seven third-quarter points.
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