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LANDMARKS: The Daily News reports the Reseda Post Office will soon be renamed for :::Ed. note-- indisputably ::: the best basketball coach ever and maybe the best player who ever became a great coach.
Several championships? Indeed (gif). As a college player, John Wooden averaged over 154 points in 12 games in '32. And as a pro, from '32-'37, made 138 straight free throws in games. As a coach, Wooden led the UCLA Bruins to 10 national championships, including seven in a row (1966-73) and with four perfect 30-0 seasons. They won 88 consecutive games (#2 on the list is hard to discover). So mythological is his record, authoritative(?) sources disagree on the number of Pac-10 (nee Pacific Coast Conference and Pac-8) wins. This site says both 19 & 20. It's 19.
Wooden, 95, has been Reseda-adjacent in Encino for the last three decades but Chick Hearn's name is on the Encino Post Office (hagiography here).
Wooden High is another Wooden in Reseda designation -- not a continuation school but a small learning community. ::: Ed note-- Whatever that is ::: Looks like this.
Wooden's particular about his name usage, in a dispute over the Wooden Award: "Wooden family agent Mark Humenik said the two sides differed over how Wooden should be able to use his name."
What do you have in your wallet?
WEBFIND: LAUSD construction projects database
Previously: The Reseda Post Office; Wooden High.
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman, D - Sherman Oaks, introduced legislation to name the post office at 7320 Reseda Blvd. after Wooden, who led the UCLA Bruins to several Pac-10 and NCAA championships in the early 1970s. Sherman attended the University of California, Los Angeles, while Wooden was a coach there.
Several championships? Indeed (gif). As a college player, John Wooden averaged over 154 points in 12 games in '32. And as a pro, from '32-'37, made 138 straight free throws in games. As a coach, Wooden led the UCLA Bruins to 10 national championships, including seven in a row (1966-73) and with four perfect 30-0 seasons. They won 88 consecutive games (#2 on the list is hard to discover). So mythological is his record, authoritative(?) sources disagree on the number of Pac-10 (nee Pacific Coast Conference and Pac-8) wins. This site says both 19 & 20. It's 19.
Wooden, 95, has been Reseda-adjacent in Encino for the last three decades but Chick Hearn's name is on the Encino Post Office (hagiography here).
Wooden High is another Wooden in Reseda designation -- not a continuation school but a small learning community. ::: Ed note-- Whatever that is ::: Looks like this.
Wooden's particular about his name usage, in a dispute over the Wooden Award: "Wooden family agent Mark Humenik said the two sides differed over how Wooden should be able to use his name."
What do you have in your wallet?
WEBFIND: LAUSD construction projects database
Previously: The Reseda Post Office; Wooden High.
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