No Nugget was more of a Swiss Army Knife than Lafayette “Fat” Lever. He carved the league up, and he did it in nearly every way possible.
Take his averages from the 1987-88 season alone: 18.9 points, 8.1 rebounds 7.8 assists and 2.1 steals per game. That’s assuming a big offensive load, having a huge impact on defense, making players around him better, and mixing it up to grab rebounds on top of everything else.
That was Lever.
The Nuggets won 54 games that season. Lever was an All-Star starter. He put up a near quadruple-double in a game at Chicago – 31 points, 16 rebounds, 12 assists and six steals.