Butch Beard
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| Personal information | |
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| Born | May 4, 1947 Morgan State |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Career statistics | |
Points | 5,622 (9.3 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 2,042 (3.4 rpg) |
| Assists | 2,189 (3.6 apg) |
| Stats at NBA.com | |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Alfred "Butch" Beard Jr. (born May 5, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He was the starting point guard with the 1975 NBA champion Golden State Warriors.
Career
Early years
Beard played high school basketball at Breckinridge County High School where, as a junior, he led the Bearcats to the 1964 state championship game losing to a Wes Unseld-led Louisville Seneca team. Beard and Unseld would later become roommates at the University of Louisville. In 1965, Beard led the Bearcats back to the title game, winning the state championship. Additionally, he was named the Kentucky Mr. Basketball.
Butch Beard played college basketball at the University of Louisville.
NBA
Beard was selected by the Dallas Chaparrals in the 1969 ABA draft and by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round of the 1969 NBA draft.[1] Beard played nine seasons (1969–1970; 1971–1979) with five teams: the Atlanta Hawks, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Seattle SuperSonics, the Golden State Warriors, and the New York Knicks. He scored 5,622 career points and represented Cleveland in the 1972 NBA All-Star Game. While with the Warriors he scored the last seven points of the team's 1975 NBA Championship win. Beard retired as an NBA player in 1979, last playing for the New York Knicks.
Coaching
Beard later served as head coach of the
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 | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 1969–70 | Atlanta
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72 | - | 13.1 | .467 | - | .828 | 1.9 | 1.7 | - | - | 7.0 |
| 1971–72 | Cleveland
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68 | - | 35.8 | .464 | - | .760 | 4.1 | 6.7 | - | - | 15.4 |
| 1972–73 | Seattle
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73 | - | 19.2 | .439 | - | .714 | 2.4 | 3.4 | - | - | 6.6 |
| 1973–74 | Golden State
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79 | - | 27.0 | .512 | - | .739 | 4.9 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 10.2 |
| 1974–75† | Golden State
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82 | - | 30.7 | .528 | - | .832 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 12.8 |
| 1975–76 | Cleveland
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15 | - | 17.0 | .389 | - | .730 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 6.5 |
| 1975–76 | New York
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60 | - | 24.2 | .475 | - | .755 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 8.4 |
| 1976–77 | New York
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70 | - | 15.5 | .505 | - | .688 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 5.3 |
| 1977–78 | New York
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79 | - | 25.1 | .502 | - | .806 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 9.4 |
| 1978–79 | New York
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7 | - | 12.1 | .423 | - | .000 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3.1 |
| Career | 605 | - | 23.6 | .487 | - | .771 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 9.3 | |
Playoffs
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969–70 | Atlanta
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9 | - | 16.2 | .477 | - | .731 | 2.9 | 0.9 | - | - | 9.0 |
| 1974–75† | Golden State
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17* | - | 26.4 | .411 | - | .642 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 9.1 |
| 1977–78 | New York
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6 | - | 26.7 | .500 | - | .600 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 9.0 |
| Career | 32 | - | 23.6 | .444 | - | .663 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 9.0 | |
Bibliography
- Butch Beard's Basic Basketball: The Complete Player (M. Kesend, 1994), ISBN 978-0935576481[2]
References
- ^ DatabaseBasketball.com Butch Beard page Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 9780935576481. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
External links
| International | |
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| National | |