Perhaps more impressive than his ability to score so efficiently was his rebounding.
In 17 minutes per game, White averaged 9ppg at 69 per cent from the field, including 67 per cent from three. White’s impressive Boomers form continued when he pulled on his Denver Nuggets jersey. With the Summer League complete, here’s a look at the NBA contract prospects for our key Aussies. The minimum requirement for our aspiring NBA players is to either be elite at one offensive element of their game, or have the ability to ‘win the rim’ by consistently challenging shots in the paint, keep the ball out of the paint and finish shots around the rim that are being contested by seven-foot-tall athletes. There is a growing belief in the NBA, ‘Win the rim, win the game’, and the aerial contests across all games and practices were impressive. Having said that, the step-up in speed, size and athleticism was significant for the Australian players competing in Las Vegas. In the eyes of many NBA executives, the NBL is truly becoming a genuine pathway to the world’s best league. That’s how busy things were.Australian basketball has come a long way – it was hard to find a game without an Aussie connection at the NBA Summer League. You couldn’t go out to dinner on a Tuesday without making a reservation. When we moved to Denver, I think over half the population was under 30. “You just felt the excitement in the air. “It was the most exciting period,” Marsha said. But Marsha recalls choosing the rainbow skyline as the winner because she believed it embodied what Denver was like at the time: young, vibrant and fun. When interviewed for this story, they couldn’t produce the winning fan designer’s name, and a trip to the Denver Public Library didn’t turn anything up. Johnson was among a small group of Nuggets employees who helped choose the rainbow skyline logo.
There were games and colors and excitement. “His ideas were always off the cuff,” Johnson said. Johnson can’t remember exactly how much time she had to put it all together, but it wasn’t a lot. He wanted all of it on the main concourse. Scheer told Johnson he wanted the event to be a “carnival atmosphere.” Clowns, bands, color, music. Johnson remembers sitting in a meeting with Scheer once in preparation for the Nuggets’ Fan Appreciation Day. Scheer had a tendency to come up with ideas and want them executed quickly. He viewed the sport and the package as entertainment.” He always had ideas to make it more entertaining. People are always coming up with different marketing ideas. “He was always coming up with new ideas and doing different things. “Carl was definitely one who liked to try different things,” said Lisa Johnson, who’s now in her 36 th season with the organization. He will become the fifth Nuggets player to see his jersey hang in the rafters. On Saturday, the Nuggets will once again wear the rainbow skyline jerseys in their home opener against the Portland Trail Blazers, when they will also retire former center Dikembe Mutombo’s jersey at halftime. The Nuggets adopted the design, which became known as the “rainbow skyline,” and would use it as the team logo from 1981 until 1993, a period which overlapped with some of the best moments in Nuggets history. Behind the Rockies was a rainbow-colored streak. The design featured Denver’s skyline reimagined in Tetris-like shapes, which were set against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. Anyone could enter, and Denver’s staff chose what they felt was the best one. So he hatched an idea: A contest to see which fan could design the best logo the Nuggets would use in a redesign. Something to create some excitement among the fan base. Scheer knew he wanted to try something fresh ahead of the 1981-82 season. They enjoyed some winning seasons at first - making three straight playoff appearances from 1977-79 - but by the beginning of the 1981-82 season, they’d missed out on the postseason twice in a row. The Nuggets transitioned from the ABA to the NBA in 1976. The early 1980s were a period of uncertainty for Denver Nuggets owner, president and general manager Carl Scheer and his team. Nuggets owner Josh Kroenke poses with Dikembe Mutombo's rainbow skyline jersey, a style the Nuggets will temporarily bring back in their home opener Saturday.
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