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You Tube Gold: Leonard “Truck” Robinson

In the modern era we’ve gotten used to power players like Charles Barkley, LeBron James, Karl Malone, Blake Griffin and, most recently Zion Williamson.

Things have changed a lot.

In the 1970s, a guy who was 6-7 and 225 could be a power player.

That was Leonard “Truck” Robinson and the nickname was supposed to suggest that he more or less ran over people.

He was a powerful player though and pretty athletic by the standards of the day.

Robinson averaged 15.7 rebounds in 1977-78 and averaged 24.2 ppg the following year.