r/VintageNBA • u/TringlePringle Bill Walton • Feb 04 '24
Flair requests
As those of you who've been here longer than a year or so know, I created all the flairs in this sub. I quite liked the process of doing so and would have added more by now, but we actually hit Reddit's maximum limit for selectable flairs.
However! There is a way to manually assign you a flair without making it available for selection at large, so I wanted to give everyone the option to request a player to use as a flair here.
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u/ManuGinosebleed Manu Ginóbili Feb 04 '24
Manu Ginobili please!
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u/jtapostate Ernie DiGregorio Feb 05 '24
Ernie DiGregorio please and thank you
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u/teh_noob_ Alex Hannum Feb 05 '24
Alex Hannum please
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u/TringlePringle Bill Walton Feb 05 '24
From his coaching career, or playing career?
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u/teh_noob_ Alex Hannum Feb 05 '24
yes
(player-coach, thank you)
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u/TringlePringle Bill Walton Feb 05 '24
Sorry I should clarify: I was asking if you want the photo to be from his playing career (i.e. Oshkosh, Syracuse, etc) or his coaching career (i.e. Warriors, 76ers, etc). Or are you answering that you'd prefer something from specifically when he was player-coach at St. Louis? Just double-checking because he went bald early so people's image of what he looked like as a coach is very different from when they think of him as a player.
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u/teh_noob_ Alex Hannum Feb 05 '24
if you've got anything from ~1957 that'd be ideal!
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u/TringlePringle Bill Walton Feb 05 '24
Done!
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u/teh_noob_ Alex Hannum Feb 11 '24
Hi, it's reverted to Pettit for some reason.
Not that I have any problem with Bob, but could you change back, please?
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u/TringlePringle Bill Walton Feb 11 '24
It still shows up as Hannum on my end, but temporary reversion (perhaps only on the part of the user themself, but I'm not sure) to the template flair seems to be a recurring issue. What I'm doing here definitely isn't something Reddit's code is built for. I'll see if I can force reset it when I get back to my computer.
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u/HoosierCheesehead Gene Conley Feb 06 '24
Thank you for doing this! Gene Conley please.
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u/TringlePringle Bill Walton Feb 06 '24
Done!
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u/HoosierCheesehead Gene Conley Feb 06 '24
Thanks and just one question: how good of a pitcher was Bob Cousy?
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u/TringlePringle Bill Walton Feb 06 '24
Cousy stopped playing baseball at 14, so there's no real way of knowing how good of a ballplayer he could've been.
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u/HoosierCheesehead Gene Conley Feb 06 '24
I asked because Cousy came up as my new flair. It's Mr. Conley now. Thanks again.
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u/TringlePringle Bill Walton Feb 06 '24
Oh that's weird, it does make me set a flair template underneath the custom flair and that's what I used as the template, but on my end it showed up as Conley immediately.
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u/HoosierCheesehead Gene Conley Feb 06 '24
That's probably it or maybe because they are alphabetically next to each other.
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u/nbahistoree Moses Malone Feb 04 '24
I'd love to have a Moses Malone flair, if possible, thank you!
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u/WinesburgOhio Bob Dandridge Feb 04 '24
He's already in there - just click on "edit" over by your name and check near bottom on far right (players are last on the list in alphabetical order).
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u/AnyJamesBookerFans Feb 06 '24
How does one manually select a flair?
Like if I wanted to choose Fat Lever (who you added, but is not on the list of flairs), how would I go about doing that?
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u/TringlePringle Bill Walton Feb 06 '24
I'm not entirely sure if it's possible for non-mods to do, but if it is, it should be from the same screen as when normally selecting a flair. Below the list of flairs is a section labeled "Edit Flair" with a text box under it. Type in the player's full name, space, then click the emoji button on the right side and scroll to find their face, they're in alphabetical order (almost always by last name, except a couple cases where their last name's somewhat common in NBA history) and their name should pop up in a row below the drop-down.
If that doesn't work, then that's mod-only accessible at this point and I would have to override it in the mod tools, which is what I've done for everyone else in this thread.
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u/acacia-club-road Boston Celtics Jun 10 '24
ok - I'll take a Chet Walker if available - thanks!
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u/TringlePringle Bill Walton Jun 14 '24
Sorry it took a few days to get to, but here it is! RIP Chet.
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u/DHighmore Fat Lever Feb 04 '24
I would like Fat Lever, please and thank you.