Connie Hawkins
Hawkins with the American Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award in 1968
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| Personal information | |
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| Born |
July 17, 1942 Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
| Listed weight | 210 lb (95 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Boys (Brooklyn, New York) |
| NBA draft | 1964 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 1961–1976 |
| Position | Power forward / Center |
| Number | 42 |
| Career history | |
| 1961–1963 | Pittsburgh Rens |
| 1963–1967 | Harlem Globetrotters |
| 1967–1969 | Pittsburgh/Minnesota Pipers |
| 1969–1973 | Phoenix Suns |
| 1973–1975 | Los Angeles Lakers |
| 1975–1976 | Atlanta Hawks |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Career ABA and NBA statistics | |
| Points | 11,528 (18.7 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 5,450 (8.8 rpg) |
| Assists | 2,556 (4.1 apg) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
| Basketball Hall of Fame as player | |
Cornelius Lance "Connie" Hawkins (born July 17, 1942) is an American former American Basketball League, National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association player, Harlem Globetrotter, Harlem Wizard and New York City playground legend. It was on the New York City courts that he earned his nickname The Hawk.
Hawkins was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, where he attended Boys High School. Hawkins soon became a fixture at Rucker Park, a legendary outdoor court where he battled against some of the best players in the world.
Hawkins did not play much until his junior year at Boys High. Hawkins was All-City first team as a junior as Boys went undefeated and won New York's Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) title in 1959. During his senior year he averaged 25.5 ppg, including one game in which he scored 60, and Boys again went undefeated and won the 1960 PSAL title. Hawkins then signed a scholarship offer to play at the University of Iowa.
During Hawkins' freshman year at Iowa, he was a victim of the hysteria surrounding a point-shaving scandal that had started in New York City. Hawkins' name surfaced in an interview conducted with an individual who was involved in the scandal. While some of the conspirators and characters involved were known to or knew Hawkins, none – including the New York attorney at the center of the scandal, Jack Molinas – had ever sought to involve Hawkins in the conspiracy. Hawkins had borrowed $200 from Molinas for school expenses, which his brother Fred repaid before the scandal broke in 1961. The scandal became known as the 1961 College Basketball Gambling Scandal.
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