Carl Braun (basketball)
undrafted | |
Playing career | 1947–1962 |
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Position | Shooting guard / point guard |
Number | 4 |
Career history | |
As player: | |
1947–1950, 1952–1961 | New York Knicks |
1961–1962 | Boston Celtics |
As coach: | |
1959–1961 | New York Knicks |
Career highlights and awards | |
Career statistics | |
Points | 10,625 |
Rebounds | 2,122 |
Assists | 2,892 |
Stats at NBA.com | |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Basketball Hall of Fame as player |
Carl August Braun Jr. (September 25, 1927 – February 10, 2010)[1] was an American professional basketball and baseball player and professional basketball coach.
Sports career
Born on Sept. 25, 1927, in
In between those minor league baseball seasons, he also joined the New York Knicks for their 1947–1948 season, effectively playing in two professional sports simultaneously. On December 6, 1947, he set a then NBA single-game scoring record, recording 47 points.[5] Incredibly he pitched one more season in the Yankees organization that following summer, until deciding that basketball was his future.[6]
Braun was one of the premier guards of the 1950s and spent 13 seasons in the
Carl Braun is featured in the 1948 Bowman set of basketball cards, the 1957 Topps set, and the 1961 Fleer set. Though sportscaster Marty Glickman made the term "swish" a popular basketball colloquialism, he attributed the genesis of the word to Braun, who he heard say it following a good shot during warmup. Glickman used the term frequently in broadcasts throughout the 1950s. Braun was elected to the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.
Personal life
Braun was born in Brooklyn and moved to Garden City, New York as a teenager where he went to high school and lived most of his adult life.[7] After retiring from professional sports, Braun was a Wall Street stockbroker. He retired to Florida around 1990. He married his wife Joan in 1952 with whom he had four daughters Susan, Patricia, Nancy and Carol, and six grandchildren. He and Joan were married 58 years.[8]
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 |
Regular season
Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
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1947–48 | New York | 47 | – | .323 | .650 | – | 1.3 | 14.3 |
1948–49 | New York | 57 | – | .330 | .760 | – | 3.0 | 14.2 |
1949–50 | New York | 67 | – | .364 | .762 | – | 3.7 | 15.4 |
1952–53 | New York | 70 | 33.1 | .400 | .825 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 14.0 |
1953–54 | New York | 72 | 33.0 | .400 | .825 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 14.8 |
1954–55 | New York | 71 | 34.9 | .388 | .801 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 15.1 |
1955–56 | New York | 72 | 32.2 | .372 | .838 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 15.4 |
1956–57 | New York | 72 | 32.6 | .381 | .809 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 13.9 |
1957–58 | New York | 71 | 34.9 | .418 | .849 | 4.6 | 5.5 | 16.5 |
1958–59 | New York | 72 | 27.2 | .420 | .826 | 3.5 | 4.8 | 10.5 |
1959–60 | New York | 54 | 28.0 | .432 | .838 | 3.1 | 5.0 | 12.9 |
1960–61 | New York | 15 | 14.5 | .468 | .786 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 5.7 |
1961–62† | Boston | 48 | 8.6 | .377 | .741 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 3.7 |
Career | 788 | 29.8 | .383 | .804 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 13.5 | |
All-Star | 5 | 18.0 | .481 | 1.000 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 6.0 |
Playoffs
Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
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1948 | New York | 3 | – | .293 | .600 | – | .7 | 10.0 |
1949 | New York | 6 | – | .324 | .806 | – | 3.2 | 19.3 |
1950 | New York | 5 | – | .412 | .763 | – | 3.8 | 17.0 |
1953 | New York | 11 | 34.0 | .324 | .806 | 4.0 | 2.8 | 13.5 |
1954 | New York | 4 | 31.3 | .346 | .875 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 17.8 |
1955 | New York | 3 | 34.3 | .409 | .900 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 18.0 |
1959 | New York | 2 | 31.0 | .375 | .889 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 16.0 |
1962† | Boston | 6 | 7.0 | .393 | .750 | 1.2 | .3 | 4.2 |
Career | 40 | 27.2 | .350 | .812 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 14.0 |
See also
References
- ^ "Former Knicks star Carl Braun dies at 82 – USATODAY.com". usatoday.com. February 10, 2010. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
- ^ Garden City High School Yearbook 1945. Garden City, New York. June 1, 1945. p. 38.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Herzog, Bob (September 17, 2015). "Jim Brown leads inaugural class of Nassau high school hall of fame inductees". Newsday. New York. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
- ^ Herrmann, Mark (April 7, 2019). "Carl Braun, Teresa Weatherspoon elected to Basketball Hall of Fame". Newsday. New York. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
- ^ a b Goldstein, Richard (February 11, 2010), "Carl Braun, an All-Star With the Knicks, Dies at 82", The New York Times
- ^ "Carl Braun". Baseball Reference. New York. April 7, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
- ^ O'Keeffe, Tim (February 11, 2010). "Carl Braun '49, N.Y. Knicks legend, dies at age 82". Colgate University. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
- ^ Goldstein, Richard (February 10, 2010). "Carl Braun, an All-Star With the Knicks, Dies at 82". New York Times. Retrieved September 27, 2021.