Andy Phillip
St. Louis Hawks | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
|---|---|
| |
| Career statistics | |
Points | 6,384 (9.1 ppg) |
| Rebound | 2,395 (4.4 rpg) |
| Assists | 3,759 (5.4 apg) |
| Stats at NBA.com | |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
| Basketball Hall of Fame as player | |
| College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 | |
Andrew Michael "Handy Andy"Fort Wayne Pistons and Boston Celtics, of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
High school/College
Phillip led his high school in Granite City, Illinois, to the
NCAA or NIT tournament based on the army's draft of Mathisen, Menke and Smiley.[4] The team was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.[5] Four of the five, minus Mathisen, returned to Illinois and tried to recapture the glory for one more season in 1946–47
after the war ended, but the chemistry had changed as well as their talent. Illinois went 14–6.
While attending Illinois, Phillip was a member of
Professional basketball
Phillip played in the first five
led the NBA in assists during the 1950–51 and 1951–52 seasons. Phillip reached the postseason every year he was in the league,[2] and his teams made it to the NBA Finals during his final four seasons — twice with Fort Wayne and twice with Boston. The 1957 Boston team won the NBA Championship
.
Phillip was alleged by one of his
Syracuse Nationals.[8] In the decisive seventh game, Phillip turned the ball over with three seconds remaining in the game, enabling Syracuse to win by one point, 92–91.[9]
After retiring from playing basketball, he coached the
Phillip was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961. He was elected to the Illini Men's Basketball All-Century Team in 2004. In 2007, Phillip was voted one of the "100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament", recognizing his superior performance in his appearance in the tournament.[13]
Phillip died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, on April 29, 2001, aged 79.[14]
Sports writer Dan Manoyan wrote a book about Phillip and his Granite City High School basketball teammates, titled Men of Granite, in 2007. A film based on the book, directed by Dwayne Johnson-Cochran, began production in 2015.[15]
Honors
Basketball
- 1942, 1943, 1947 – First-team All-Big Ten
- 1942 & 1943 First Team All-American
- 1943 – National Player of the Year
- 1943 – Sporting NewsNational Player of the Year
- 1943 – Big Ten Player of the Year
- 1961 – Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
- 1973 – Inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association's Hall of Fame as a player.[16]
- 2004 – Elected to the "Illini Men's Basketball All-Century Team".
- 2006 – Inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
- 2007 – Named one of the 100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament.[17]
- September 13, 2008 – Honored as one of the 34 honored jerseys which hang in the State Farm Center to show regard for being the most decorated basketball players in the University of Illinois' history.
Baseball
- 1947 – Baseball All-American (First baseman)
Athletics
- 1942, 1943 – University of Illinois Athlete of the Year
- 2017 – Inducted into the Illinois Athletics Hall of Fame[18]
Statistics
Basketball
| Season | Games | Points
|
PPG | Big Ten Record | Overall Record | Highlight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941–42 | 23 | 232 | 10.0 | 13–2 | 18–5 | Consensus 1st team All-American |
| 1942–43 | 18 | 305 | 16.9 | 12–0 | 17–1 | Big Ten and National Player of the Year |
| 1946–47 | 20 | 192 | 9.6 | 8–4 | 14–6 | Consensus 2nd team All-American |
| Totals | 61 | 729 | 12.0 | 33–6 | 49–12 |
BAA/NBA career statistics
| 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 |
| † | Won an NBA championship | * | Led the league |
Regular season
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947–48 | Chicago | 32 | – | .336 | .583 | – | 2.3 | 10.8 |
| 1948–49 | Chicago | 60 | – | .348 | .676 | – | 5.3 | 12.0 |
| 1949–50 | Chicago | 65 | – | .349 | .704 | – | 5.8 | 11.7 |
| 1950–51 | Philadelphia | 66 | – | .399 | .751 | 6.8 | 6.3* | 11.2 |
| 1951–52 | Philadelphia | 66 | 44.4 | .366 | .753 | 6.6 | 8.2* | 12.0 |
| 1952–53 | Philadelphia/Fort Wayne | 70 | 38.4 | .397 | .738 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 10.3 |
| 1953–54 | Fort Wayne | 71 | 38.1 | .375 | .730 | 3.7 | 6.3 | 10.6 |
| 1954–55 | Fort Wayne | 64 | 36.4 | .371 | .692 | 4.5 | 7.7 | 9.6 |
| 1955–56 | Fort Wayne | 70 | 29.7 | .365 | .563 | 3.7 | 5.9 | 5.8 |
| 1956–57† | Boston | 67 | 22.0 | .379 | .642 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 4.4 |
| 1957–58 | Boston | 70 | 16.6 | .355 | .592 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 3.4 |
| Career | 701 | 32.3 | .368 | .695 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 9.1 | |
Playoffs
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Chicago | 5 | – | .283 | .714 | – | .8 | 7.2 |
| 1949 | Chicago | 2 | – | .389 | 1.000 | – | 6.0 | 19.5 |
| 1950 | Chicago | 2 | – | .259 | .769 | – | 6.0 | 12.0 |
| 1951 | Philadelphia | 2 | – | .400 | .500 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 |
| 1952 | Philadelphia | 3 | 40.7 | .421 | .792 | 4.7 | 7.3 | 11.7 |
| 1953 | Fort Wayne | 8 | 41.1 | .338 | .667 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 10.3 |
| 1954 | Fort Wayne | 4 | 34.0 | .342 | .750 | 3.0 | 4.3 | 8.8 |
| 1955 | Fort Wayne | 11 | 40.5 | .323 | .850 | 5.5 | 7.1 | 8.5 |
| 1956 | Fort Wayne | 10 | 17.3 | .333 | .440 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 2.9 |
| 1957† | Boston | 10 | 12.8 | .364 | .400 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 2.2 |
| 1958 | Boston | 10 | 9.1 | .238 | .778 | 1.4 | .7 | 1.7 |
| Career | 67 | 25.4 | .330 | .700 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 6.4 | |
Head coaching record
| Regular season | G | Games coached | W | Games won | L | Games lost | W–L % | Win–loss % |
| Playoffs | PG | Playoff games | PW | Playoff wins | PL | Playoff losses | PW–L % | Playoff win–loss % |
| Team | Year | G | W | L | W–L% | Finish | PG | PW | PL | PW–L% | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Louis | 1958–59 | 10 | 6 | 4 | .600 | (fired) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 10 | 6 | 4 | .600 | — | — | — | — |
References
- ^ "Sport: Whiz Kids". Time. March 15, 1943. Archived from the original on December 14, 2008.
- ^ a b Andy Phillip Stats. Basketball Reference. Accessed on June 9, 2017.
- ^ "Illinois Basketball All-Time Rosters". Archived from the original on March 22, 2010. Accessed on June 10, 2017.
- ^ "My Losing Season: Wyoming @ Utah: Sailors, Ferrin, Mikan and the Great Santini". Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
- ^ "Sport: Whiz Kids, Grown Up". Time. December 23, 1946. Archived from the original on February 19, 2011.
- ^ Lamothe, Dan (April 29, 2009). "Corps to induct 4 into Sports Hall of Fame". Marine Corps Times. Archived from the original on February 23, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
- ISBN 1-58322-268-5
- ^ "City Hails Nats' World Title Triumph", Syracuse Herald Journal, April 11, 1955, pp. 1, 45.
- ^ Andy Phillip Coaching Stats. Basketball Reference. Accessed on June 10, 2017.
- ^ Association for Professional Basketball Research American Basketball League page
- ^ NASLJerseys.com Chicago Majors
- ^ IHSA 100 Legends of Boys Basketball
- ^ Goldstein, Richard. "Andy Phillip, 79, Whiz Kid In College, All-Star in N.B.A.". The New York Times. May 4, 2001. Accessed on June 9, 2017.
- ^ Wright, Branson. "Men of Granite sports movie begins production in Cleveland next month". Cleveland.com. July 21, 2015. Accessed on June 9, 2017.
- ^ IBCA Hall of Fame
- ^ 100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament
- ^ Illinois Athletics Hall of Fame
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