Levern Tart – shooting guard – Bradley University
Initially planning to play football for Indiana University, his basketball skills got him scooped to play for Bradley instead, with whom he’d win an NIT title in 1964, garnering Most Valuable Player honors in that tourney.
I was reminded today that I had failed to tweet this clean copy of the Kentucky Colonels vs New York Nets ABA action from 1969-70 (there’s a tiny fuzzy version out there). The Nets are 23 Levern Tart, 10 John Smith; Colonels are 52 Sam Smith, 24 Bud Olsen. Happy Thanksgiving! pic.twitter.com/bFyqVGQKFc
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) November 29, 2019
Tart would never play in the NBA despite being selected by Boston, instead having a long and successful career in the American Basketball Association (ABA), even earning All-Star honors twice.