Len Elmore

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Len Elmore
New Jersey Nets
1983–1984New York Knicks
Career highlights and awards
Career ABA and NBA statistics
Points
3,948 (6.0 ppg)
Rebounds3,360 (5.1 rpg)
Blocks674 (1.0 bpg)
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Leonard J. Elmore (born March 28, 1952) is an American

New Jersey Nets, and New York Knicks
.

Early life and NBA career

Elmore attended

University of Maryland College Park in 1974 where he was a three-time All-ACC player and an All-American in 1974. He is still Maryland's all-time leading rebounder, in both total rebounds and rebounding average. In 2002, Elmore was selected to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team, honoring him as one of the 50 greatest players in ACC history.[citation needed
]

Elmore is a ten-year veteran of the NBA having played for the

New Jersey Nets (Brooklyn Nets), New York Knicks, and he also played two seasons with the Pacers when they were in the ABA
.

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

ABA

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1974–75
Indiana
 77 - 18.4 .417 1.000 .774 5.1 0.5 0.9 1.2 6.6
1975–76
Indiana
 76 - 34.1 .402 .000 .738 10.8 1.6 1.8 2.3 14.6
Career 153 - 26.2 .407 .250 .749 7.9 1.0 1.3 1.8 10.6

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1974–75
Indiana
 18 - 31.4 .437 .000 .676 8.1 0.9 1.2 2.2 10.6
1975–76
Indiana
 3 - 22.7 .300 .000 1.000 5.0 1.3 1.7 0.7 6.3
Career 21 - 30.1 .418 .000 .684 7.6 1.0 1.2 2.0 10.0

NBA

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1976–77
Indiana
 6 - 7.7 .412 - .800 2.5 0.3 0.0 0.7 3.0
1977–78
Indiana
 69 - 19.2 .368 - .667 6.1 1.2 1.1 1.0 5.4
1978–79
Indiana
 80 - 15.8 .406 - .718 5.0 0.9 0.8 1.0 4.2
1979–80
Kansas City
 58 - 15.8 .430 .000 .689 4.4 1.1 0.7 0.7 4.5
1980–81
Milwaukee
 72 - 12.8 .358 .000 .720 2.9 1.0 0.5 0.7 2.9
1981–82
New Jersey
 81 70 25.9 .460 .000 .794 5.4 1.2 1.1 1.1 9.1
1982–83
New Jersey
 74 0 13.2 .398 .000 .643 3.2 0.5 0.6 0.5 3.4
1983–84
New York
 65 5 12.8 .408 .000 .711 2.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 2.4
Career 505 75 16.6 .413 .000 .715 4.2 0.9 0.8 0.8 4.6

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1979–80
Kansas City
 3 - 14.3 .308 .000 .500 3.7 0.3 1.0 0.3 3.0
1980–81
Milwaukee
 4 - 3.0 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1981–82
New Jersey
 2 - 38.0 .563 .000 1.000 8.0 1.0 0.5 1.0 11.0
1982–83
New Jersey
 2 - 7.5 .400 .000 .500 4.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 2.5
Career 11 - 13.3 .429 .000 .750 3.3 0.4 0.5 0.3 3.3

Broadcasting career

In

1992, Elmore alongside Lundquist, called the legendary East Regional Final between Duke and Kentucky, which ended with Duke's Christian Laettner's game-winning shot
.

Elmore posted on his Twitter account that he was one of over 100 employees at ESPN that were laid off in April 2017.[1]

Law career

Elmore received a

District Attorney in Brooklyn
, New York.

Aside from his announcing duties, Elmore also previously served as

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
.

Elmore teaches Seminar in Sports Media and Athlete Activism and Social Justice in Columbia University's Master of Science Program in Sports Management.

References

  1. ^ "Len Elmore on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved April 26, 2017.

Sources

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