Nate Thurmond
Oh Nate, I can't believe you are gone. How did we get to be so much older; it just wasn't that long ago that you wore number "42" for the Cleveland Cavaliers, helping our team in the "Miracle of Richfield," when the team almost made it to the NBA finals, including dramatic wins in several games. What a great player your were, and what a great representative you were for your hometown of Akron, Ohio. Thank you for the super times, you truly will always be, "Nate the Great."
For those unaware, Nate Thurmond was a basketball player in the National Basketball Association, NBA, for short. He played most of his career with the Golden State Warriors, but spent the last few seasons of his playing time with the Chicago Bulls and the Cleveland Cavaliers. His time with the Cavaliers saw the team win its first divisional title (1975-76 Central Division). This team went on to defeat the Washington Bullets in 7 games in the conference semifinals, as 3 of the Cavaliers' 4 wins, including game 7, were decided in the closing seconds of play, and was dubbed "The Miracle of Richfield." * Nate Thurmond was selected as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Nate died July 16, 2016.
* The Cleveland Cavaliers were an expansion team in 1970 and played their home games in downtown Cleveland at the Cleveland Arena on Euclid Avenue. In 1974 they moved into the newly built Richfield Coliseum in the suburban Cleveland community of Richfield.
WORD HISTORY:
Miracle-This word, somewhat distantly related to "mirror," and more distantly to "smile," goes back to Indo European "(s)mei" which had the notion "to smile, be glad;" thus also, "be pleasantly surprised or astonished." This gave Latin "mirus," meaning "astonishing," which then spawned "mirari," with the meaning, "to be astonished." This then gave Latin the noun "miraculum," with the meaning, "object of wonder," with the further religious notion of, "object of wonder brought about by God's intervention." Old French, a Latin-based language, had "miracle," meaning "wondrous act," and English borrowed the word as such in the 1100s. The word still carries the religious notion in many cases.
For those unaware, Nate Thurmond was a basketball player in the National Basketball Association, NBA, for short. He played most of his career with the Golden State Warriors, but spent the last few seasons of his playing time with the Chicago Bulls and the Cleveland Cavaliers. His time with the Cavaliers saw the team win its first divisional title (1975-76 Central Division). This team went on to defeat the Washington Bullets in 7 games in the conference semifinals, as 3 of the Cavaliers' 4 wins, including game 7, were decided in the closing seconds of play, and was dubbed "The Miracle of Richfield." * Nate Thurmond was selected as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Nate died July 16, 2016.
* The Cleveland Cavaliers were an expansion team in 1970 and played their home games in downtown Cleveland at the Cleveland Arena on Euclid Avenue. In 1974 they moved into the newly built Richfield Coliseum in the suburban Cleveland community of Richfield.
WORD HISTORY:
Miracle-This word, somewhat distantly related to "mirror," and more distantly to "smile," goes back to Indo European "(s)mei" which had the notion "to smile, be glad;" thus also, "be pleasantly surprised or astonished." This gave Latin "mirus," meaning "astonishing," which then spawned "mirari," with the meaning, "to be astonished." This then gave Latin the noun "miraculum," with the meaning, "object of wonder," with the further religious notion of, "object of wonder brought about by God's intervention." Old French, a Latin-based language, had "miracle," meaning "wondrous act," and English borrowed the word as such in the 1100s. The word still carries the religious notion in many cases.
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