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TA73: Pete Malavich Without him, there would be no "pistol" foresaw his own death.

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TA73: Pete Malavich Without him, there would be no "pistol" foresaw his own death.

Welcome to The Althletic's 75 Players in the History of the NBA's 75th Anniversary Special Edition. Mr. Long will introduce one player at a time in order from back to front, and this list is selected by TA's NBA expert panel!

73rd place: Pete Maravic

Career statistics: 658 games, averaging 24.2 points, 4.2 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game, shooting 44.1% from the field and 82% from the free throw line, career playing for the Hawks (1970-74), Jazz (1974-80), Celtics (1979-80).

Career Achievements:

Selected by the Hawks with the 3rd overall pick in the 1st round in 1970 (not winning a championship in the NBA for 10 years)

In 1970

5 NBA (1973-74; 1977-79)

2-time NBA (1976–77)

2 NBA (1973; 1978)

In 1977

The No. 44 jersey was retired by the Hawks

The No. 7 jersey was retired by the Jazz and pelicans (now hornets).

He was inducted in 1987

He was inducted in 1996

Selected in 2021

TA73: Pete Malavich Without him, there would be no "pistol" foresaw his own death.

Early life:

Pete Maravic was born into a basketball family in Ali Quepa. His father, Price Maravic, was also a professional player and became a player coach after retiring. Maravic was gifted from an early age, and because his shooting movements resembled pulling out a revolver from the side of his body, he was jokingly called a "pistol".

In his youth, Maravic was a typical "gym addict", and after a successful high school basketball career in North Carolina, he attended Louisiana State University. Because the NCAA ruled that freshmen could not play for the varsity team, Maravic only played for the school's freshman team in the 1966-67 season, but he averaged a staggering 43.6 points per game. During his college years, Maravich's college coach was none other than his father. In his debut for Louisiana State, Maravic slashed wildly with 50 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists. In his freshman year of college, he averaged 43.6 points per game. In the three seasons since, he averaged 43.8, 44.2 and 44.5 points per game, and was the league's top scorer each year. He played 31 games for Louisiana State University, 10 of which were scored over 50 points, while setting an all-time NCAA all-time record for individual scoring and scoring averages in a single season that year. The college scoring record he set has not been broken yet. In 1970 he was voted the best player in the national university. But criticism followed, and while he scored high, his team didn't have a high winning percentage, with a record of just 49 wins and 35 losses.

Maravic swept the NCAA's major scoring records in almost every category, including career-high totals (3667), career-highs (44.2), top hits (1987) and top shots (3,166). In addition, he has scored more than 50 points 28 times in his career, which is also the top of the NCAA's history. He accomplished these feats before the three-point line, which was not introduced into the collegiate league until the 1986-87 season.

Career:

Eagle period

TA73: Pete Malavich Without him, there would be no "pistol" foresaw his own death.

In the 1970 NBA Draft, the Atlanta Hawks selected Pete Maravic with the third overall pick, just behind Bob Rainier and Rudy TomJanovic, with a record five-year, $2 million contract.

He started in 1970–71 as Joe Caldwell, who moved to the ABA League after the 1969–70 season. He missed 16 games in the 1971-72 season and averaged just 19 points per game, down a lot from his average. The team's record is 36 wins and 46 losses, once again ranking second in the Central Zone.

The 1972–73 season remained healthy and helped the team to a 46-36 finish, the only season in maravich's heyday to win more than 50%.

Averaging 27.7 points in 1973–74, he ranked second after Bob McAdow of the Buffalo Braves.

Jazz period

TA73: Pete Malavich Without him, there would be no "pistol" foresaw his own death.

The New Orleans Jazz, a new addition in the 1974 offseason, sent two future first rounds and two future second rounds to the Hawks before bringing Maravich back to Louisiana.

He scored only 21.9 points in the 1974-75 season and shot a career-low 41.9 percent. But Maravic improved on other fronts, with a career-high 442 rebounds, 120 steals and an average of 6.2 assists per game. The Jazz's record is 23-59, the worst in the league.

The 1975–76 season was affected by a number of minor injuries. Although he only played in 62 games, he shot a career-high 45.9% from the field and improved his average to 25.9, third behind Bob McAdoo and the Lakers' Karim Abdul-Jabbar. The 1976–77 season was the best season of Maravic's career.

He missed 32 games in the 1977–78 season due to surgery on one knee and an infection in the other. In the game against Buffalo, the knee ligament was torn again, and in those 50 games, Maravic could score 27 points to lead the team. Although he didn't play enough games to get him on the scoring list, Maravic was selected to the All-Star Team and named to the All-Star Second Team. The Jazz ended up with a 39-43 loss, and the difference between the two games once again missed the playoffs.

The 1978-79 season's stats declined in every respect. After playing only 49 games in the season, he still scored 22.6 points and was named to the All-Star Team that year.

In the 1979–80 season, he moved his home stadium to Salt Lake City, Utah. Maravic's playing time began to diminish dramatically, and Adrian Dantley became the Jazz's first point of attack, averaging third in the league with 28 points per game. Maravic was dropped by the Jazz after playing 17 games in 1980.

Celtic period

TA73: Pete Malavich Without him, there would be no "pistol" foresaw his own death.

In the 1979–80 season, he averaged 11.5 points in 26 games for the Celtics. In a game against the Washington Bullets, he scored the team's last 10 points to help the team come in. In the playoffs, he averaged six points and followed the team to the Eastern Conference Finals together.

April 27, 1980 was the last game of his career, and he scored four points.

After the 1979–80 season, he had to face his scarred knees, excessive weight and slowing down, and eventually chose to retire.

In October 2021, he was selected as the third batch of 75 stars officially announced by the NBA.

Personal life:

Decommissioned life:

After retiring, he converted to Christianity, quit the habit of alcoholism, promoted his faith as a public figure, and produced Pistol Pete's Homework Basketball video.

Health Status:

TA73: Pete Malavich Without him, there would be no "pistol" foresaw his own death.

On January 5, 1988, during a three-on-three match in a gymnasium in California, he suddenly had a heart attack at the age of 40.

Posthumous Commemoration:

In honor of the generation of stars, the main stadium of his alma mater was renamed the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

In 1991, Hollywood made a film based on his life (Pistol Pete).

In 1996, Maravic was named to the NBA's Top 50 Superstars, the only star to die at the time of his selection.

Character Evaluation:

TA73: Pete Malavich Without him, there would be no "pistol" foresaw his own death.

He has quite a bit of talent and is one of the greatest players. But no matter what he does, he can never be a winner, that's his style.

He's like a rock singer. He has his own style, his own rhythm, different.

Maravic is incredible, and what he does on the pitch is beyond his time.

: Pete Maravic was one of the league's greatest stars and an important icon of professional basketball in Atlanta in the 1970s. A new generation of players has found the magic in his footage.

I've never seen anyone play a basketball like he did.

Who is the best performer of all time? I have to say 'Pistol Pete'.

"Pistol" Maravic is a player who is ahead of his time, he is the first influential superstar to officially bring the back pass and the crotch pass into the game. Maravic was a generation of gods at the NCAA, belonging to the type of individual ability that is invincible, which may also lead to his personality on the court. Maravic is a "ball maniac" who loves basketball deeply, and in him, it can be seen that he has long pondered a large number of practical or impractical basketball techniques.

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