Bob Pettit is associated with which sport?
Bob Pettit 1999, he was named Living Legend for LSU at the SEC Basketball Tournament. He is a member of the LSU Hall of Fame. "Bob Pettit Boulevard" in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is named after him. In 1954, the Milwaukee Hawks selected Pettit second in the first round of the NBA Draft after the Baltimore Bullets' selection of Frank Selvy. With $100 in the bank, he signed a contract with Hawks owner Ben Kerner for $11,000 – an all-time high for an NBA rookie then. Pettit's awkward ballhandling and a lack of strength to battle NBA bruisers weighing 200 pounds that early
Steve Pettit of the founder, Bob Jones, Sr. Pettit thus became the first president of the university not related to the Jones family. Steve Pettit Stephen Davis Pettit, Sr. (born November 27, 1955) is a Christian evangelist and the fifth president of Bob Jones University. Steve Pettit was born in Quitman, Georgia, but his parents, who had met in the U. S. Air Force, moved to Columbia, South Carolina, when he was three. Pettit spent his childhood in Columbia, performing in a workshop theater founded by his mother and playing the tuba in his high school band. He was the captain of