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An unidentified semi-professional team featured Stadium High graduate Charlie Williams, second from right, and NBA standout Phil Jordon, third from right, likely from the 1960s when Williams had yet to begin his professional career and Jordon’s had ended and he moved to Tacoma. Williams gained fame professionally, teaming with Connie Hawkins to lead the Pittsburgh Pipers to the 1968 ABA championship. Williams averaged 20.8 ppg for the champs and would average double-digit scoring seven years in a row before wrapping his career having scored more than 6,000 points, all in the ABA. Jordon had a tremendous professional career following his high school years in Northern California and college career at Whitworth of Spokane, but may perhaps be best known for unwittingly facilitating Wilt Chamberlain’s historic 100-point game on March 2, 1962. That day, Jordon, a member of the New York Knicks, was ill and could not play, leaving the Knicks shorthanded in the paint and leaving “The Stilt” free to have his way. Jordon died tragically in 1965 when a raft he was testing in the Puyallup River broke apart. Two others made it to shore successful, but Jordon’s body was not recovered until months later in the Pacific Ocean. His son, Jon, ended up starring at Stadium High and playing at Centralia CC and Central Washington University.Lexicon
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