Elgin Baylor
The cover of the Los Angeles Lakers program for "Elgin Baylor Night" on March 21, 1969
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| Personal information | |
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| Born |
September 16, 1934 Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Listed weight | 225 lb (102 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Spingarn (Washington, D.C.) |
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| NBA draft | 1958 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall |
| Selected by the Minneapolis Lakers | |
| Playing career | 1958–1971 |
| Position | Small forward |
| Number | 22 |
| Career history | |
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| 1958–1971 | Minneapolis / Los Angeles Lakers |
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| 1974 | New Orleans Jazz |
| 1976–1979 | New Orleans Jazz |
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| Career statistics | |
| Points | 23,149 (27.4 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 11,463 (13.5 rpg) |
| Assists | 3,650 (4.6 apg) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
| Basketball Hall of Fame as player | |
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College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 |
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Elgin Gay Baylor (born September 16, 1934) is an American retired basketball player, coach, and executive. He played 13 seasons as a small forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minneapolis / Los Angeles Lakers, appearing in eight NBA Finals. Baylor was a gifted shooter, strong rebounder, and an accomplished passer. Renowned for his acrobatic maneuvers on the court, Baylor regularly dazzled Lakers fans with his trademark hanging jump shots. The No. 1 draft pick in 1958, NBA Rookie of the Year in 1959, and an 11-time NBA All-Star, he is regarded as one of the game's all-time greatest players. In 1977, Baylor was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Baylor spent 22 years as general manager of the Los Angeles Clippers. He won the NBA Executive of the Year Award in 2006, before being relieved of his duties shortly before the 2008–09 season began.
He had a special appearance in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Olympiad", as one of the athletes.
Elgin "Rabbit" Baylor had two basketball-playing brothers, Sal and Kermit. After stints at Southwest Boys Club and Brown Jr. High, Baylor was a 3 time All City player in High School. Elgin played his first 2 years at Phelps Vocational High School in the '51 and '52 basketball seasons where he set his first area scoring record of 44 points vs Cardozo. During his 2 All City years at Phelps he averaged 18.5 and 27.6 points per season. He did not perform well academically and dropped out of school ('52–'53) to work in a furniture store and to play basketball in the local recreational leagues. Baylor reappeared for the '54 season playing for the newly opened Spingarn High School and the 6'5, 190 lb senior was named 1st team All Met and won the SSA's Livingstone Trophy as the Area's Best Basketball player for 1954. He finished with a 36.1 average for his 8 Interhigh Division II league games. On Feb 3, 1954 in a game against his old Phelps team, he scored 31 in the first half. Playing with 4 fouls the entire second half, Baylor scored 32 more points to establish a new DC area record with 63 points. This broke the point record of 52 that Western's Jim Wexler had set the year before when he broke Rabbit's record of 44 .
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