Clyde Lovellette

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Basketball player
Clyde Lovellette
Player information
Full name Clyde Edward Lovellette
birthday September 7, 1929
place of birth Petersburg , Indiana , United States
date of death March 9, 2016 at the age of 86 years and 184 days
Place of death North Manchester , Indiana , United States
size 205 cm
position Center (basketball)
college University of Kansas
NBA draft 1952, Minneapolis Lakers , 1st round, 9th position
Clubs as active
1953–1957 Minneapolis Lakers 1957–1958 Cincinnati Royals 1958–1962 St. Louis Hawks 1962–1964 Boston CelticsUnited StatesUnited States
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Clyde Edward Lovellette (born September 7, 1929 in Petersburg , Indiana , † March 9, 2016 in North Manchester , Indiana) was an American basketball player. Lovellette was the first player who could win championships in the college league NCAA and in the professional league NBA as well as win Olympic gold. Lovellette succeeded in the latter as an amateur player for the US selection at the 1952 Olympic Games . In 1988 he was named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for his athletic achievements .

Style of play

Lovellette's playing skills were so varied that he was able to take on the tasks of a power forward or even a small forward in addition to the center position . He was able to do this mainly because he was one of the first great players of his time to master the one-handed standing throw . Today this throwing technique is part of the technical standard of the sport. Compared to other players of his size, Lovellette was able to safely score points from a greater distance in the 50s.

Lovellette was known for his tough style of play. He is considered to be a pioneer of the type of large, hard-working players.

college

At the University of Kansas , Lovellette was a star player for the Jayhawks college team for four years . In 1952, in his senior year in Kansas, he led the team to the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship and was also the most successful basketball player of all college players with 28.4 points per game. Overall, Lovellette as an amateur was recognized three times (1950, 1951, 1952) as an All-American . In the year he won the title, he was also named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Finals and Helms Foundation College Player of the Year .

National team

Lovellette was part of the US squad for the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics . He played in seven of eight possible games for the USA team, with an average of 13.9 points per game. This made him the team's best basket hunter. In the final game for the gold medal against the team of the former Soviet Union , Lovellette led all basket hunters with nine points. The US won by 36-25.

NBA

Lovellette was behind star player George Mikan a central figure in winning the Minneapolis Lakers title in the 1953/54 NBA season. In four years with the team, he scored an average of 17.2 points per use. After a one-year flying visit to the Cincinnati Royals in 1957/58, Lovellette was active for the St. Louis Hawks for four years . In June 1962 he was sold by the Hawks to the Boston Celtics without a player swap. At the Celtics, the experienced center Lovellette should relieve Bill Russell , the central figure of the team. In his last two years as a player, Lovellette won the NBA championship with the Celtics (1963, 1964) in the role he was assigned.

In a total of 704 games in the NBA, Lovellette collected 11,947 points (17.0 per game) and 6,663 rebounds (9.5 per game).

Controversy

Lovellette was known for his love of firearms even in his days as an active player. After his career, he was even employed as a community sheriff. As a player, he often carried two revolvers with him. During an overnight stay before an away game, Lovellette paid one of the referees of the upcoming game an unannounced visit to his hotel room. When the referee Willie Smith opened the door, Lovellette shot him with blank cartridges. The incident got around in league circles, but was not prosecuted.

In the 1961/62 season Lovellette was one of the three best basket hunters and team captains of the St. Louis Hawks , along with Bob Pettit and Cliff Hagan . At the beginning of the season, the team had rookie Cleo Hill, one of the most promising basketball talents in the USA, in the NBA draft . After the African-American Hill had recorded double-digit point yields in the first games of the season, he was obviously ignored by his teammates in the flow of the game, especially by the white players Lovellette, Pettit and Hagan. When the Hawks coach Paul Seymour threatened his players with sanctions if Hill should be passed further, the Hawks fired Seymour. Hill himself later stated that Lovellette and the other players did not ignore him for racist reasons, but because they were paid to score and he had reduced their point yield.

Awards

  • NBA All-Star : 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961
  • NCAA College Basketball Final Four Most Outstanding Player : 1952
  • Member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
  • Member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame

See also

Web links

  • Clyde Lovellette in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame . On: Hoophall website; Springfield, MA, 2018. Retrieved April 20, 2018 (in English).
  • Clyde Lovellette in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. On: The College Basketball Experience — website; Kansas City, MO, 2006-2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (in English).
  • Clyde Lovellette at: RealGM website; Marion, IL, 2000-2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (in English).
  • Clyde Lovellette at: Sports Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (in English).
  • Clyde Lovellette at: Basketball Reference Web site; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (in English).
  • Clyde Lovellette at: National Basketball Association website; New York City, NY, 2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  • Clyde Lovelette at: Sports Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2016. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (in English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KU basketball legend Clyde Lovellette dies at age 86
  2. ^ NN: Clyde E. Lovellette. ( September 11, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ) Archived from Hoophall website; Springfield, MA, July 7, 2009. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (in English).
  3. ↑ bleacherreport.com , accessed December 29, 2011.
  4. ^ Projects.latimes.com , accessed December 29, 2011.
  5. ^ LA Times , 2010, accessed December 29, 2011.
  6. ^ Clyde Lovellette in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on December 29, 2011.
  7. ↑ Hoopedia at nba.com , accessed on 29 December 2011th
  8. ↑ fiba.com , accessed on December 29, 2011.
  9. ^ Basketball-reference.com , accessed December 29, 2011.
  10. ↑ NN: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Title supposedly: Boston Celtics at nba.com. ) On: National Basketball Association website; New York City, NY, no author or date specified, last reached on December 29, 2011 (in English).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nba.com
  11. ↑ Player statistics at nba.com , accessed on December 29, 2011.
  12. ^ Syracuse.com , accessed December 29, 2011.
  13. ↑ blackathlete.net , accessed December 29, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Lovellette, Clyde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lovellette, Clyde Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Petersburg , Indiana , United States
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2016
Place of death North Manchester , Indiana , United States