Bailey Howell

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Basketball player
Bailey Howell
Player information
Full name Bailey E. Howell
birthday 20th December 1937 (age 82)
place of birth Middleton , Tennessee , United States
size 201 cm
position Power Forward / Small Forward
college Mississippi State University
NBA draft 1959 , 2nd pick, Detroit Pistons
Jersey number 52 (MSU), 18, 15, 18, 16
Clubs as active
1959–1964 Detroit Pistons 1964–1966 Baltimore Bullets 1966–1970 Boston Celtics 1970–1971 Philadelphia 76ersUnited StatesUnited States
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Bailey E. Howell (born December 20, 1937 in Middleton , Tennessee ) is a retired American basketball player . He played twelve seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and was ranked among the ten most successful players in the league in nine statistical categories when he retired in 1971. Howell won the NBA championship twice with the Boston Celtics . In 1997, Howell was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for his accomplishments .

college

Howell played for the Mississippi State University (MSU) team between 1956 and 1959 . On December 28, 1956 Howell scored 22 points at the Evansville Invitational Basketball Tournament and All-American Holiday Tournament against the Pioneers of the University of Detroit . An agency report from the AP made it clear that the Pioneers were an integrated team, which sparked a scandal in the Mississippi Second Reconstruction Closed Society , which banned all competition against African Americans. Because of the violation of the unwritten law (also known as the gentlemen's agreement ), the Maroons were ordered back home shortly before the final. At this point, Howell was averaging 26.4 points per game and was the national leader in rebounds .

After he posted 37 points against the top team of the University of Kentucky in the 1957/58 season and was able to collect 34 rebounds against Louisiana State University in the same season , Howell attracted national attention. During the season, Howell led his team to a university record of 17 wins, with an average field throw rate of 56.8 percent per game. He was voted Sophomore of the Year in the NCAA's Southeastern Conference for his achievements .

1958 Howell averaged 27.8 points per game and was awarded as an All-American (second team). He was also voted the most valuable player in the Southeastern Conference (SEC for short), as it was in 1959. On February 23, in the game against Tulane , he broke Bob Pettit's SEC career record. That year he won the title of the Southeastern Conference with MSU and was again named All-American (First Team) and was the only one unanimously elected to the SEC First Team . When asked about the chances of a possible entry into the NCAA championship tournament given the unwritten law , Howell, who would be playing with and against blacks in the All-Star Games after the season anyway, replied to an unnamed reporter from the United Press International agency: "I would want to go. All the boys would want to go and we will if they let us ”(“ I would want to go. All the boys would want to go and we will if they let us ”). After Howell's departure, the MSU won another three SEC championships in four years, but was not to travel to the NCAA championship tournament until 1963 and only integrate the athletics department in 1971.

In his college career Howell achieved a record of 61 wins with 14 losses with the MSU. He became the first player with at least 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in the history of the Southeastern Conference . Since then, only Tom Gola and Oscar Robertson have achieved this mark .

NBA

In the 1959 NBA draft , Howell was selected second by the Detroit Pistons . This makes Howell the most highly selected MSU alumnus in the draft . In his first six seasons Howell reached double digits in points and rebounds. From 1961 to 1967 he also took part in the NBA All-Star Game six times in a row . In 1963 Howell was given the honor of being named second-tier All-NBA team .

In the second half of his career, Howell joined the Boston Celtics for three seasons , where he strengthened the front court around Bill Russell and won the NBA title with the team in 1968 and 1969. Howell played his last professional season for the Philadelphia 76ers , but for the first time in his career for less than 20 minutes per game.

In 951 NBA games over 12 seasons, Bailey Howell scored a total of 17,770 points (18.7 per game), 9,383 rebounds (9.9 per game) and 1,853 assists (2.0 per game). As of 2017, he was among the top 75 of the NBA in terms of points and among the top 50 in terms of rebounds, as well as with his 4,740 free throws at a rate of 76.2%.

See also

List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Mississippi State was called "Mississippi State College" (MSC) until 1958. School mascot and athletics department name wasn't changed from Maroons to Bulldogs until 1961 . For a couple of years both names were used in parallel.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player Portrait of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame On: Hoophall website; Springfield, MA 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017 (in English).
  2. ^ Jason A. Peterson: Full Court Press. Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball . Jackson, 2016: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-0820-2 (page 21f, in English).
  3. ↑ a b c d celtic-nation.com , accessed January 4, 2012.
  4. ^ Jason A. Peterson: Full Court Press. Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball . Jackson, 2016: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-0820-2 (pages 38 and 42, in English).
  5. ^ Jason A. Peterson: Full Court Press. Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball . Jackson, 2016: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-0820-2 (page 34, in English).
  6. ↑ a b c basketball-reference.com , accessed January 4, 2012.
  7. ^ NBA player profile On: NBA website; New York 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017 (in English).
personal data
SURNAME Howell, Bailey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howell, Bailey E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Middleton , Tennessee , United States