# Won championships on all four levels

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 7, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/won-championships-on-all-four-levels/552950 "2010-09-07T18:13:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/won-championships-on-all-four-levels/552950/1 "2010-09-07T18:13:20Z")

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Has a basketball player ever won titles on all 4 levels? The four levels:

High School state title  
NCAA title  
NBA title  
Olympic gold medal

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/won-championships-on-all-four-levels/552950/2 "2010-09-07T18:15:28Z")

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Kareem apparently missed out on the 1968 Gold Medal after he boycotted said Olympics.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/won-championships-on-all-four-levels/552950/3 "2010-09-07T18:16:19Z")

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Kareem was also my first thought, but adding the Olympics makes it difficult.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/won-championships-on-all-four-levels/552950/4 "2010-09-07T18:34:54Z")

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Magic Johnson did. His Everett High School team won the Michigan state championship in (I think) 1976-77. At Michigan State, he won the 1978-79 NCAA title. He won NBA Championships with the Lakers in 1979-80, 1981-82, 1984-85, 1986-87, and 1987-88. And he was on the Dream Team in 1992. I know he’s the only one on the Dream Team who did it but there could be other Olympians who pulled it off.

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**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/won-championships-on-all-four-levels/552950/5 "2010-09-07T18:39:31Z")

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Sue Bird has won a state title, an NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a WNBA title. Just to throw that in there.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/won-championships-on-all-four-levels/552950/6 "2010-09-07T18:43:59Z")

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Thanks Duke! I had meant to add WNBA.