Jim Price (basketball)

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Jim Price
Indianapolis, Indiana)
CollegeLouisville (1969–1972)
NBA draft1972: 2nd round, 16th overall pick
Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers
Playing career1972–1979
PositionPoint guard
Number15, 25, 11, 5
Career history
As player:
1972–1974Los Angeles Lakers
1974–1976Milwaukee Bucks
1976Buffalo Braves
1976–1978Denver Nuggets
1978Detroit Pistons
1978–1979Los Angeles Lakers
As coach:
1982–1987IUPUI
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points
5,088 (10.0 ppg)
Rebounds1,566 (3.1 rpg)
Assists1,886 (3.7 apg)
Stats Edit this at Wikidata at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

James E. Price (born November 27, 1949) is an American former professional basketball player and coach.

Career

He played

All-Star in 1975, after he was traded midseason from the Lakers to the Bucks for Lucius Allen.[1]

Playing with his older brother Mike Price, Jim Price helped lead his Arsenal Technical High School basketball team to the State Finals in 1966; the Titans finished the season with a 25–4 record.[2] He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008.[3]

Price entered the coaching ranks following his playing career; he spent 5 years as the head coach of the IUPUI Jaguars women's team, totaling a record of 73–55 and 3 NAIA post-season berths.[4][5]

NBA career statistics

Legend
  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

Regular season

Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG STL BLK PPG
1972–73 L.A. Lakers 59 14.0 .440 .822 1.9 1.6 – – 6.4
1973–74 L.A. Lakers 82 32.0 .449 .799 4.6 4.5 1.9 .4 15.4
1974–75 L.A. Lakers 9 37.7 .449 .911 4.8 7.0 2.3 .3 21.2
1974–75 Milwaukee 41 37.3 .440 .859 3.8 5.4 2.2 .5 14.9
1975–76 Milwaukee 80 31.6 .415 .849 3.3 4.9 1.9 .4 11.7
1976–77 Milwaukee 6 18.5 .512 .778 2.2 2.5 1.2 .2 8.2
1976–77 Buffalo 20 16.7 .423 .850 1.7 1.9 1.3 .3 5.3
1976–77 Denver 55 25.2 .445 .797 3.3 3.8 1.7 .3 7.9
1977–78 Denver 49 22.2 .481 .773 3.2 3.2 1.4 .1 6.8
1977–78 Detroit 34 24.7 .421 .816 3.0 3.0 1.3 .1 11.5
1978–79 L.A. Lakers 75 16.1 .497 .696 1.6 2.9 .9 .2 5.3
Career 510 25.1 .444 .815 3.1 3.7 1.6 .3 10.0
All-Star 1 17.0 .333 1.000 2.0 .0 2.0 – 8.0

Playoffs

Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG STL BLK PPG
1973
 L.A. Lakers 3 5.3 .273 – 1.3 .7 – – 2.0
1974
 L.A. Lakers 5 32.2 .379 .692 3.8 2.6 1.4 .0 11.8
1976
 Milwaukee 1 19.0 .375 .571 .0 4.0 1.0 .0 10.0
1977
 Denver 6 26.3 .358 .625 4.0 4.2 2.0 .2 7.2
1979
 L.A. Lakers 8 16.0 .300 .500 1.0 2.3 .6 .0 2.5
Career 23 21.0 .351 .625 2.4 2.7 1.3 .1 6.0

References

  1. ^ Jim Price Transactions
  2. ^ "Boys basketball state finals history". Archived from the original on March 15, 2018. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
  3. ^ http://www.hoopshall.com/hall-of-fame/jim-price/?query=misc1.eq.Indianapolis%20Arsenal%20Tech&xsearch_id=HallofFame_Highschool&xsearch[0]=Indianapolis%20Arsenal%20Tech&back=HallofFame
  4. ^ "Former IUPUI Basketball Players/Coach to Be Honored at 2008 Indiana Hall of Fame Banquets". IUPUI Jaguars. January 29, 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  5. ^ http://www.iupuijags.com/documents/2013/10/21/2013-14_WBK_Record_Book.pdf [bare URL PDF]

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