Elgin Baylor

Baylor ranked #11 on SLAM Magazine's Top 75 NBA Players of all time in 2003. Since the advent of the free software movement, these terms have entered frequent use for categorising computer programs according to the licenses and legal fetters that cover them, and both this expression and the term gratis are used to distinguish freeware (gratis software) from free software. In 1977, Baylor was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame and in 1980 he was named to the NBA 35th Anniversary All-Time Team and again in 1996, he was named to the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team. It can be contrasted with the expressions free as in speech, free as in freedom, or free as in rights, which refer to something which is free of restrictions, as in the freedom of speech. In 1986, Baylor was hired by the Los Angeles Clippers as the team's vice president of basketball operations, where he still is today. Free as in beer refers to things which are available at no monetary cost (like free beer at a party). In 1974, Baylor was hired to be an assistant coach and later the head coach for the New Orleans Jazz, but had a lackluster 86-135 record and retired following the 1978-79 season. In hacker slang, another common term for gratis is free as in beer.

He finished his career with an astonishing 23,149 points, 3,650 assists and 11,463 rebounds over 846 games. Free software usually means the former. Second, the Lakers went on to win the NBA Championship that season, something that Baylor never achieved. GNU programmers often talk about free speech (libre) and free as in beer, as the word free in English does not distinguish between these meanings. First, the Lakers' next game after his retirement was the first of an NBA record of 33 consecutive wins. Spanish and French (but not Latin itself, where the spelling is līber) that denotes the state of being free, as in "having freedom". His retirement resulted in two great ironies. Libre is a word in various Romance languages, e.g.

Baylor finally retired during the 1971-72 season because of his nagging knee problems. Gratis is an adjective in Latin and various Romance and Germanic languages meaning free, in the sense that one does not have to pay for some good or service (free of charge). During Baylor's career, the Lakers were a consistently powerful team, but were continuously overshadowed by the Boston Celtics dynasty of the time. . Baylor began to be hampered with knee problems during the 1963-64 season and, while still a very powerful force, was never quite the same player, never averaging above 30 points per game again. Gratis is borrowed from Latin, and libre is borrowed from Spanish or French. Baylor was a 10-time All-NBA First Team selection and went to the NBA All-Star Game 11 times. This distinction is of utmost importance in dealing with information as property.

In 1959, Baylor won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award and from the 1960-61 to the 1962-63 seasons, he averaged 34.8, 38.3 and 34.0 points per game, leading the Lakers to the NBA Finals eight times (although never winning). Gratis versus Libre is the distinction between no cost and freedom, a distinction not made by the word free in the English language. Following his junior season, Baylor joined the Minneapolis Lakers for the 1958-1959 season and moving with them to Los Angeles in 1960. Elgin Baylor played college basketball at the College of Idaho and Seattle University, leading the SU Chieftains to the NCAA championship game in 1958 (where they lost to the Kentucky Wildcats). Elgin Gay Baylor (born September 16, 1934 in Washington, DC) was one of the most graceful and acrobatic forwards to ever play the game of basketball playing 13 seasons for the NBA's Minneapolis and Los Angeles Lakers.