Looking at photos of him now, 59 years after he retired, 40 years after he died, 28 years after he was posthumously inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, you begin to understand why almost no one remembers Neil Johnston.
Balding, lantern-jawed, awkward-appearing, the 6-foot-8 Philadelphia Warriors center looks no more like a basketball star in 2018 than he did in 1956.
A city currently abuzz over a 76ers revival has forgotten a player who was every bit as statistically dominant as Joel Embiid or Jimmy Butler.
So have diehard NBA fans. When a statistically savvy basketball blogger recently stumbled across his name high on the all-time player efficiency ratings – Michael Jordan was No.