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Game state source: whynba · Retrieved Oct 9, 5:36 pm EDTNBA legend. Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Biography, honors and career statistics below.
Bailey Howell
Career at a glance
Bailey Howell played 12 NBA regular seasons between 1959 and 1971, appearing in 950 games and averaging 18.7 points, 9.9 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game. He played for 4 teams: Detroit (1959–64, 387 games), Baltimore (1964–66, 158 games), Boston (1966–70, 323 games), Philadelphia (1970–71, 82 games). His best scoring season was 1960–61 with Detroit: 23.6 points per game over 77 games.
He rebounded best in 1960–61 at 14.4 per game. Championship seasons: 1967–68 (Boston), 1968–69 (Boston). In the playoffs he appeared in 10 postseason runs (86 games, 16.3 points per game).
Multiplying each season’s games by its scoring average gives roughly 17,800 regular-season points (an estimate from per-game figures, not an official total).
whynba analysis of the season-by-season statistics below (Wikipedia revision, CC BY-SA 4.0). Totals are estimates from per-game averages.
About Bailey Howell
Bailey E. Howell (born January 20, 1937) is an American former professional basketball player. After playing college basketball at Mississippi State, Howell played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A six-time NBA All-Star and two-time NBA champion, Howell was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997. Known as "Buckshot" because of his lethal ability to score in the paint area, he thrived on second-effort plays close to the basket.
- Born
- January 20, 1937 (age 89) Middleton, Tennessee, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
- Listed weight
- 210 lb (95 kg)
- Position
- Small forward / power forward
- High school
- Middleton (Middleton, Tennessee)
- College
- Mississippi State (1956–1959)
- NBA draft
- 1959: 1st round, 2nd overall pick
- Playing career
- 1959–1971
Career highlights and awards
- 2× NBA champion (1968, 1969)
- 6× NBA All-Star (1961–1964, 1966, 1967)
- All-NBA Second Team (1963)
- Consensus first-team All-American (1959)
- Consensus second-team All-American (1958)
- 3× First-team All-SEC (1957, 1958, 1959)
- No. 52 retired by Mississippi State Bulldogs
Career statistics
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959–60 | Detroit | 75 | 31.3 | .456 | .739 | 10.5 | 0.8 | 17.8 |
| 1960–61 | Detroit | 77 | 38.3 | .469 | .753 | 14.4 | 2.5 | 23.6 |
| 1961–62 | Detroit | 79 | 36.2 | .464 | .768 | 12.6 | 2.4 | 19.9 |
| 1962–63 | Detroit | 79 | 37.6 | .516 | .798 | 11.5 | 2.9 | 22.7 |
| 1963–64 | Detroit | 77 | 35.1 | .472 | .809 | 10.1 | 2.7 | 21.6 |
| 1964–65 | Baltimore | 80 | 37.2 | .495 | .801 | 10.9 | 2.6 | 19.5 |
| 1965–66 | Baltimore | 78 | 29.8 | .488 | .730 | 9.9 | 2.0 | 17.5 |
| 1966–67 | Boston | 81 | 30.9 | .512 | .741 | 8.4 | 1.3 | 20.0 |
| 1967–68† | Boston | 82 | 34.2 | .481 | .727 | 9.8 | 1.6 | 19.8 |
| 1968–69† | Boston | 78 | 32.4 | .487 | .735 | 8.8 | 1.8 | 19.7 |
| 1969–70 | Boston | 82 | 25.3 | .429 | .763 | 6.7 | 1.5 | 12.6 |
| 1970–71 | Philadelphia | 82 | 19.4 | .472 | .730 | 5.4 | 1.4 | 10.7 |
| Career | 950 | 32.2 | .480 | .762 | 9.9 | 2.0 | 18.7 | |
| All-Star | 6 | 13.5 | .394 | .750 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 5.3 |
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Detroit | 2 | 36.0 | .341 | .750 | 8.5 | 1.5 | 17.0 |
| 1961 | Detroit | 5 | 30.8 | .351 | .696 | 9.2 | 4.4 | 11.2 |
| 1962 | Detroit | 10 | 37.8 | .423 | .827 | 9.6 | 2.3 | 20.0 |
| 1963 | Detroit | 4 | 40.8 | .375 | .852 | 10.5 | 2.8 | 17.8 |
| 1965 | Baltimore | 9 | 38.9 | .515 | .757 | 11.7 | 2.1 | 20.8 |
| 1966 | Baltimore | 3 | 31.3 | .460 | .727 | 10.0 | 0.7 | 18.0 |
| 1967 | Boston | 9 | 26.8 | .484 | .667 | 7.3 | 0.6 | 15.3 |
| 1968† | Boston | 19 | 31.4 | .511 | .692 | 7.7 | 1.2 | 18.1 |
| 1969† | Boston | 18 | 30.6 | .489 | .719 | 6.6 | 1.1 | 15.0 |
| 1971 | Philadelphia | 7 | 17.4 | .422 | .500 | 4.4 | 0.6 | 6.7 |
| Career | 86 | 31.7 | .465 | .732 | 8.1 | 1.5 | 16.3 |
Per-game averages. † won an NBA championship · * led the league · ‡ NBA record (as marked).
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- Height
- 6′ 7″
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Position
- Small forward / power forward
- Jersey
- Not listed
- Country
- USA
- School / last affiliation
- Not listed
- Draft year
- 1959
- Draft pick
- Round 1 · Pick 2
Height, Weight, Position, Country, Draft year, Draft pick: blank in the NBA.com profile, filled from the Wikipedia infobox credited in the About section above.
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