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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
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jerry
- Family name
- Lucas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Middletown
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- All-NBA Team
- Participant in
- 1960 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- basketball
- Position played
- center
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 105
- Image
- Jerry Lucas 1961.jpeg
- Height
- 203
- Residence
- Middletown
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- date of birth
- 1940-03-30
- Commons category
- Jerry Lucas
- birth name
- Jerry Ray Lucas
- end of work period
- 1974-00-00
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
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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.