This Day in Basketball History
2001 - 76ers retire Charles Barley's No. 34
Seventeen years after selecting him fifth overall, the Philadelphia 76ers retire Charles Barkley's No. 34.
Barkley became the seventh player in Sixers history to have his number retired, joining Hal Greer (No. 15), Billy Cunningham (No. 32), Bobby Jones (No. 24), Julius Erving (No. 6), Wilt Chamberlain (No. 13), and Maurice Cheeks (No. 10) in the rafters of Wells Fargo Center.
"I think we knew right away that he had major skills," Cheeks recalled of Barkley. "He would always just rebound the ball and he wouldn't look to give me the ball, he'd take it himself. That was one of the things that always drove Billy (Cunningham) crazy, that he would just grab the rebound and take the ball himself and go upcourt. I think that drives a lot of coaches crazy, but somehow he did it and he did it well. It became part of him."
2001 - John Stockton moves into third on NBA's career games list
Playing in his 1,330th career game, Utah Jazz point guard John Stockton passes Moses Malone for third place on the NBA's all-time games played list.
Stockton played in 1,504 games over the course of his 19-year career, trailing only Robert Parish (1,611 games) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1,560).
1995 - Bulls' 44-game home winning streak begins
The Chicago Bulls' 100-82 victory over the Boston Celtics marks the first of what would be an NBA-record 44 consecutive games won at home.
The streak, which still stands as the longest in NBA history, would carry over to the 1995-96 season, eventually coming to an end on April 8, 1996 with a 98-97 loss to the Charlotte Hornets.
Birthdays
1919 - Ossie Schectman
1940 - Jerry Lucas
1945 - Shaler Halimon
1950 - LaRue Martin