Walt Hazzard
Los Angeles, California , U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||
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Listed weight | 185 lb (84 kg) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
High school |
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College | UCLA (1961–1964) | ||||||||||||||
NBA draft | 1964: territorial pick | ||||||||||||||
Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers | |||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1964–1974 | ||||||||||||||
Position | Point guard / shooting guard | ||||||||||||||
Number | 42, 1, 44 | ||||||||||||||
Coaching career | 1980–1988 | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
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1964–1967 | Los Angeles Lakers | ||||||||||||||
1967–1968 | Seattle SuperSonics | ||||||||||||||
1968–1971 | Atlanta Hawks | ||||||||||||||
1971–1972 | Buffalo Braves | ||||||||||||||
1972–1973 | Golden State Warriors | ||||||||||||||
1973–1974 | Seattle SuperSonics | ||||||||||||||
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1980–1982 | Compton CC | ||||||||||||||
1982–1984 | Chapman | ||||||||||||||
1984–1988 | UCLA | ||||||||||||||
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Career statistics | |||||||||||||||
Points | 9,087 (12.6 ppg) | ||||||||||||||
Rebounds | 2,146 (3.0 rpg) | ||||||||||||||
Assists | 3,555 (4.9 apg) | ||||||||||||||
Stats at NBA.com | |||||||||||||||
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |||||||||||||||
Medals
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Mahdi Abdul-Rahman (born Walter Raphael Hazzard Jr.; April 15, 1942 – November 18, 2011) was an American professional
College career
Hazzard attended Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, where his teams went 89–3 and he was named the city's player of the year when he was a senior.[1] Hazzard went on to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became a key player on the Bruins varsity basketball team. In Hazzard's first season on the varsity squad, UCLA made their first Final Four appearance in the 1962 NCAA tournament. They lost 72–70 to eventual champion Cincinnati in the semi-finals.
UCLA's first undefeated season in
Hazzard and Bill Bradley earned a spot on the 1964 Olympic basketball team for the U.S., which unsurprisingly won the gold medal. He was pre-draft territorial pick in 1964 by the Los Angeles Lakers.[1]
NBA career
Hazzard later played in the NBA, first with the Los Angeles Lakers from 1964 to 1967, then the Seattle SuperSonics, the Atlanta Hawks, the Buffalo Braves, and briefly for the Golden State Warriors. He returned to the SuperSonics for the 1973–74 season, after which he retired from professional basketball.
While playing for the SuperSonics in their inaugural 1967–68 season, Hazzard scored a career high 24.0 points per game, averaged 6.2 assists per game, and was selected to play in the 1968 NBA All-Star Game.[2] Seattle traded him to the Hawks during the off-season for Lenny Wilkens.[3] Hazzard's career-high average in assists came during the 1969–70 season, when he averaged 6.8 assists per game while playing for the Hawks.
Coaching career
In 1980, Hazzard took a part-time position paying $1,500 annually to be the head coach at
In 1984, he returned to UCLA as its men's basketball coach, twenty years after winning the national championship as a player. That same year, he was inducted into the
He later spent a number of years working for the Los Angeles Lakers, first as an advance scout on the west coast and later as a special consultant.
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 |
Playing statistics
Regular season
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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1964–65 | Los Angeles | 66 | – | 13.9 | .382 | – | .648 | 1.7 | 2.1 | – | – | 4.2 |
1965–66 | Los Angeles | 80 | – | 27.5 | .457 | – | .708 | 2.7 | 4.9 | – | – | 13.7 |
1966–67 | Los Angeles | 79 | – | 20.8 | .426 | – | .729 | 2.9 | 4.1 | – | – | 9.3 |
1967–68 | Seattle | 79 | – | 33.7 | .441 | – | .774 | 4.2 | 6.2 | – | – | 24.0 |
1968–69 | Atlanta | 80 | – | 30.3 | .397 | – | .707 | 3.3 | 5.9 | – | – | 11.2 |
1969–70 | Atlanta | 82 | – | 33.6 | .467 | – | .809 | 4.0 | 6.8 | – | – | 15.3 |
1970–71 | Atlanta | 82 | – | 35.1 | .459 | – | .759 | 3.7 | 6.3 | – | – | 16.5 |
1971–72 | Buffalo | 72 | – | 33.2 | .451 | – | .782 | 3.0 | 5.6 | – | – | 15.8 |
1972–73 | Buffalo | 9 | – | 14.9 | .417 | – | .500 | 1.1 | 1.9 | – | – | 5.9 |
1972–73 | Golden State | 46 | – | 13.7 | .418 | – | .863 | 1.7 | 2.4 | – | – | 4.5 |
1973–74 | Seattle | 49 | – | 11.7 | .422 | – | .756 | 1.2 | 2.5 | .5 | .1 | 3.8 |
Career | 724 | – | 26.5 | .441 | – | .757 | 3.0 | 4.9 | .5 | .1 | 12.6 |
Playoffs
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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1965 | Los Angeles | 7 | – | 16.9 | .333 | – | .750 | 2.6 | 4.3 | – | – | 7.6 |
1966 | Los Angeles | 14 | – | 24.3 | .493 | – | .619 | 2.9 | 3.1 | – | – | 11.9 |
1967 | Los Angeles | 3 | – | 28.7 | .240 | – | .800 | 2.7 | 5.3 | – | – | 6.7 |
1969 | Atlanta | 11 | – | 32.7 | .393 | – | .787 | 3.0 | 3.9 | – | – | 14.0 |
1970 | Atlanta | 7 | – | 36.4 | .500 | – | .625 | 3.4 | 7.7 | – | – | 21.4 |
1971 | Atlanta | 5 | – | 40.4 | .329 | – | .800 | 5.0 | 5.4 | – | – | 14.0 |
1973 | Golden State | 11 | – | 19.5 | .357 | – | 1.000 | 1.8 | 2.5 | – | – | 6.5 |
Career | 58 | – | 27.2 | .413 | – | .738 | 2.9 | 4.2 | – | – | 11.8 |
Coaching statistics
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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UCLA Bruins (Pacific-10 Conference) (1984–1988) | |||||||||
1984–85 | UCLA | 21–12 | 12–6 | 3rd | NIT champion | ||||
1985–86 | UCLA | 15–14 | 9–9 | 4th | NIT first round | ||||
1986–87 | UCLA | 25–7 | 14–4 | 1st | NCAA Division I second round | ||||
1987–88 | UCLA | 16–14 | 12–6 | 2nd | |||||
UCLA: | 77–47 | 47–25 | |||||||
Total: | 77–47 | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Personal life and death
In the summer of 1972, Hazzard embraced
Hazzard and his wife Jaleesa had four children: Yakub, Jalal, Rasheed, and Khalil, the latter being a record producer, well known in hip hop circles by the stage name DJ Khalil. Hazzard's grandsons, Jacob and Max Hazzard, also play basketball. Jacob is a former walk-on basketball player at Arizona, and Max played basketball for UC Irvine and Arizona.
On March 22, 1996, Hazzard was hospitalized following a stroke.[12] Although he made a substantial recovery over the ensuing years, his health never returned in full and subsequent to his illness he was much less active in the public sphere. Shortly after the stroke, Lakers owner Jerry Buss promised Hazzard's family that he would remain on the team's payroll as long as Buss owned the team; Hazzard remained a Lakers employee for the rest of his life.[13] By the middle of 2011, his health had deteriorated significantly and he was hospitalized in intensive care.[14] On November 18 of that year, Hazzard died at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center due to complications following heart surgery.[15] He was 69. Walt Hazzard is interred in the Muslim section at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Los Angeles.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c Foster, Chris (November 19, 2011), "Walt Hazzard dies at 69; former Bruins basketball star and coach", Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on November 19, 2011
- ^ "Walt Hazzard, Former Star and Coach for U.C.L.A., Dies at 69", The New York Times, November 18, 2011
- The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- ^ a b Feinstein, John (April 7, 1984). "Questions Still Punctuate The Sentences at UCLA". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
- ^ a b c d McCallum, Jack (April 16, 1984). "The March of the Wooden Soldiers". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
- ^ UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame
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- ^ Ex-Bruins coach Hazzard is stable following stroke. Los Angeles Daily News, March 23, 1996.
- ^ Shelburne, Ramona (February 19, 2013). "Jerry Buss: A true sports visionary". ESPNLosAngeles.com. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ "Abdul-Jabbar: What John Wooden could teach Ben Howland". March 5, 2012.
- ^ "Hazzard dies at 69; led UCLA's first title team". November 19, 2011.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com
- Walt Hazzard at Find a Grave