Dave Minor

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]

Dave Minor
Minor circa 1950
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
19511953Baltimore Bullets
1953Milwaukee Hawks
Career highlights and awards
Career statistics
Points877 (7.6 ppg)
Rebounds527 (4.5 rpg)
Assists288 (2.5 apg)
Stats  at NBA.com
Stats  at Basketball-Reference.com

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

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

NBA

Source[1]

Regular season

Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG PPG
1951–52 Baltimore 57 27.3 .354 .765 4.8 2.8 8.3
1952–53 Baltimore 19 15.8 .358 .769 2.2 1.2 4.6
1952–53 Milwaukee 40 32.7 .369 .736 5.3 2.6 8.0
Career 116 27.3 .360 .754 4.5 2.5 7.6

References


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