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Steve Hamilton 1961 pre-career
While we're over here on the shoulder of the road, here is the aforementioned Yankees' reliever in his pre-MLB career as a forward with the Lakers during their last two seasons in Minneapolis (his last NBA game came in December, 1959).
This is obviously a team-issued publicity shot and good luck finding those from the one-step-up-from-playground era of the NBA (in Hamilton's last year, the New York Knicks still played some home games in the 5,000 seat 69th Armory). However, in case anybody's looking for such vintage pro basketball images, most of them were preserved in a publication called "Basketball's Best" which was published from 1953 into the '70s, and actually issued all-ABA issues in 1968 and 1969:
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