Dave Minor

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Dave Minor
Personal information
Born(1922-02-23)February 23, 1922
Rulesville, Missouri
DiedMarch 14, 1998(1998-03-14) (aged 76)
Listed height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Listed weight185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High schoolFroebel (Gary, Indiana)
College
Playing career1951–1953
PositionPoint guard / Shooting guard
Number10, 8
Career history
1951–1953Baltimore Bullets
1953Milwaukee Hawks
Career highlights and awards
Career statistics
Points877 (7.6 ppg)
Rebounds527 (4.5 rpg)
Assists288 (2.5 apg)
Stats Edit this at Wikidata at NBA.com
Stats Edit this at Wikidata at Basketball-Reference.com

Davage T. Minor (February 23, 1922 – March 14, 1998)[1] was a player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).[2] He played with the Baltimore Bullets before being traded along with Stan Miasek to the Milwaukee Hawks for Don Boven, Pete Darcey and George McLeod. He began his college career at Toledo, it was interrupted by World War II; following the war, he enrolled at UCLA. In 1947–1948, Minor was honored as an All-Conference guard basketball player at UCLA. His full name was Davage Minor, but Gary, Indiana sportswriters called him "The Wheelhorse of Steel City." He began shooting the first jumpers seen around the Great Lakes in December 1937 in his high school gym in Gary. By 1941, the shot was so unstoppable he used it to take the Froebel High School Blue Devils all the way to the Final Four of the Indiana state tournament, the "mother of them all." Eventually, he starred with the old Oakland Bittners of the AAU, and he was one of the first five African Americans signed in the NBA.[3][4] Minor died in 1998.[5]

In December 2019, he was announced as a member of the 2020 Class in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Dave Minor". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2011-06-13.
  2. ^ Christgau, John (1999). "The Wheelhorse of Steel City". Origins of the Jump Shot: Eight Men Who Shook the World of Basketball. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 79–105. ISBN 0-8032-6394-5.
  3. ^ "59th Men's Induction Class announced - Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame".
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2013-11-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ Known deceased basketball individuals
  6. ^ "59th Men's Induction Class announced - Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame".

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