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Jerry Lucas

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Jerry Lucas

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Also known as Luke, Mr. Memory

American basketball player

Person · Open Library

Born
1950
Works
15

Top works

  • Theomatics
  • The memory book
  • The memory book
  • The memory book
  • An American Gangster's Wife

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Other
Country
XW

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5
Total plays
12

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Key facts

Born
( 1940-03-30 ) March 30, 1940 (age 86) , Middletown, Ohio , U.S.
Listed height
6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight
230 lb (104 kg)
High school
Middletown (Middletown, Ohio)
College
Ohio State (1959–1962)
Nba draft
1962 : territorial pick
Drafted by
Cincinnati Royals
Playing career
1962–1974
Position
Power forward
Number
16, 47, 32
1963 1969
Cincinnati Royals
1969 1971
San Francisco Warriors
1971 1974
New York Knicks
Points
14,053 (17.0 ppg)
Rebounds
12,942 (15.6 rpg)
Assists
2,732 (3.3 apg)

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Basketball
Team
_Retired Basketball
Nationality
United States

via TheSportsDB

~28 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Jerry Ray Lucas (born March 30, 1940) is an American former basketball player. He was a nationally awarded high school player, national college star at Ohio State University, and 1960 gold medal Olympian and international player before later starring as a professional player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

As a collegian, Lucas led the Ohio State Buckeyes to three straight NCAA finals (1960–1962), winning the national championship in 1960, and finishing as runner-up in 1961 and 1962. He is the only three-time Big Ten Basketball Player of the Year and was named the NCAA Player of the Year in 1961 and 1962 by the United States Basketball Writers Association (now Oscar Robertson Award), the Associated Press, and the Sporting News. He was also named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year in 1961.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jerry Lucas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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