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Personal information | |
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Born | (1932-10-29)October 29, 1932 Hibbing, Minnesota, U.S. |
Died | June 13, 2020(2020-06-13) (aged 87) |
Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Hibbing (Hibbing, Minnesota) |
College |
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NBA draft | 1955: territorial pick |
Selected by the: Minneapolis Lakers | |
Playing career | 1955β1961 |
Position | Shooting guard / small forward |
Number | 16, "18," 17 |
Career history | |
1955β1960 | Minneapolis Lakers |
1960β1961 | New York Knicks |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Career NBA statistics | |
Points | 5,597 (13.3 ppg) |
Rebounds | 1,748 (4.2 rpg) |
Assists | 1,114 (2.6 apg) |
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Richard Eugene Garmaker (October 29, 1932 β June 13, 2020) was an American basketball player who played professionally in theββNational Basketball Association (NBA) from 1955 to 1961.
College careerβ»
Garmaker was a 6'3" guard/forward from the University of Minnesota. He was a 1955 consensus All-American for the Golden Gophers, along with Sihugo Green (Duquesne), Tom Gola (LaSalle), Bill Russell (San Francisco) and Dick Ricketts (Duquesne).
Professional careerβ»
He was drafted by the NBA's Minneapolis Lakers twice (in 1954 and again in 1955) and joined the team for the 1955β56 NBA season. In his four-and-a-half seasons with the "Lakers," Garmaker appeared as an NBA All-Star four times. He had his finest season in 1956β57, in which he ranked tenth in the league in points per game (16.3) and earned a spot on the All-NBA second team. In 1960, he was traded to the New York Knicks for Ray Felix and a draft pick. And he retired with the Knicks in 1961, having scored 5,597 career points.
Deathβ»
Dick Garmaker died at age 87 on June 13, 2020.
NBA career statisticsβ»
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 |
Regular seasonβ»
Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
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1955β56 | Minneapolis | 68 | 12.8 | .370 | .806 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 5.7 |
1956β57 | Minneapolis | 72 | 33.4 | .400 | .839 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 16.3 |
1957β58 | Minneapolis | 68 | 32.6 | .395 | .764 | 5.4 | 2.7 | 16.1 |
1958β59 | Minneapolis | 72 | 34.6 | .395 | .772 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 13.7 |
1959β60 | Minneapolis | 44 | 27.0 | .377 | .718 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 11.7 |
1959β60 | New York | 26 | 28.7 | .431 | .860 | 4.8 | 2.8 | 12.9 |
1960β61 | New York | 71 | 31.5 | .440 | .768 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 15.6 |
Career | 421 | 28.9 | .403 | .787 | 4.2 | 2.6 | 13.3 | |
All-Star | 4 | 18.3 | .361 | .833 | 4.8 | 1.5 | 7.8 |
Playoffsβ»
Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
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1956 | Minneapolis | 3 | 14.0 | .368 | .941 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 10.0 |
1957 | Minneapolis | 5 | 37.4 | .275 | .844 | 7.0 | 3.4 | 13.0 |
1959 | Minneapolis | 13 | 33.8 | .424 | .778 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 14.5 |
Career | 21 | 31.8 | .379 | .821 | 4.7 | 3.2 | 13.5 |
Referencesβ»
- ^ Rippel, Joel (June 14, 2020). "Dick Garmaker, former Gophers All-America basketball star, dies at 87". Star Tribune. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
External linksβ»
- Career stats @basketball-reference.com
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- 1932 births
- 2020 deaths
- All-American college men's basketball players
- American men's basketball players
- Basketball players from Minnesota
- Hibbing High School alumni
- Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
- Minneapolis Lakers draft picks
- Minneapolis Lakers players
- Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball players
- NBA All-Stars
- New York Knicks players
- Shooting guards
- Small forwards
- Sportspeople from Hibbing, Minnesota
- American basketball biography, 1930s birth stubs