Military personnel in uniform are required to salute when they meet and recognize persons entitled (by grade) to a salute except when it is inappropriate or impractical (in public conveyances such as planes and buses, in public places such as inside theaters, or when driving a vehicle).
One notable player, Shawn Kemp, enrolled in college but never played any games due to personal problems. In 1989, a year after his high school graduation, he was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics. He played 14 seasons in the NBA and was selected to 6 All-Star Games and 3 All-NBA Teams.
Never a seven. Larry Bird played one Game 7, LeBron James has played one before Sunday night. Magic Johnson got to play two. Willis Reed played one, and made two shots that night in 1970, and it is still a game of basketball remembered as well as anything that has ever happened in sports in New York.