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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.
Guy Rodgers
Career at a glance
Guy Rodgers played 12 NBA regular seasons between 1958 and 1970, appearing in 892 games and averaging 11.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 7.8 assists per game. He played for 5 teams: Philadelphia (1958–62, 271 games), San Francisco (1962–66, 316 games), Chicago (1966–68, 85 games), Cincinnati (1967–68, 75 games), Milwaukee (1968–70, 145 games). His best scoring season was 1965–66 with San Francisco: 18.6 points per game over 79 games.
The season table marks him as the league leader in assists twice. In the playoffs he appeared in 6 postseason runs (46 games, 11.0 points per game). Multiplying each season’s games by its scoring average gives roughly 10,400 regular-season points (an estimate from per-game figures, not an official total).
Among the 404 players with at least 200 NBA games profiled on whynba, Rodgers ranks No. 14 in assists per game.
whynba analysis of the season-by-season statistics below (Wikipedia revision, CC BY-SA 4.0). Totals are estimates from per-game averages.
About Guy Rodgers
Guy William Rodgers Jr. (September 1, 1935 – February 19, 2001) was an American professional basketball player born in Philadelphia. He spent twelve years (1958–1970) in the NBA, and was one of the league's best playmakers in the early to mid-1960s. Rodgers led the NBA in assists twice, and placed second six times. Rodgers was inducted into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014.
- Born
- September 1, 1935 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
- Listed weight
- 185 lb (84 kg)
- Position
- Point guard
- High school
- Northeast (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- College
- Temple (1955–1958)
- NBA draft
- 1958: territorial pick
- Playing career
- 1958–1970
Career highlights and awards
- 4× NBA All-Star (1963, 1964, 1966, 1967)
- 2× NBA assists leader (1963, 1967)
- Consensus first-team All-American (1958)
- Consensus second-team All-American (1957)
- 3× Robert V. Geasey Trophy winner (1956–1958)
- No. 5 retired by Temple Owls
Career statistics
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958–59 | Philadelphia | 45 | 34.8 | .394 | .545 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 10.7 |
| 1959–60 | Philadelphia | 68 | 36.5 | .389 | .613 | 5.8 | 7.1 | 11.6 |
| 1960–61 | Philadelphia | 78 | 37.2 | .386 | .687 | 6.5 | 8.7 | 12.8 |
| 1961–62 | Philadelphia | 80* | 33.1 | .356 | .665 | 4.4 | 8.0 | 8.2 |
| 1962–63 | San Francisco | 79 | 41.4 | .387 | .727 | 5.0 | 10.4* | 13.9 |
| 1963–64 | San Francisco | 79 | 34.1 | .365 | .707 | 4.2 | 7.0 | 11.0 |
| 1964–65 | San Francisco | 79 | 34.2 | .380 | .686 | 4.1 | 7.2 | 14.6 |
| 1965–66 | San Francisco | 79 | 36.7 | .373 | .727 | 4.3 | 10.7 | 18.6 |
| 1966–67 | Chicago | 81* | 37.8 | .391 | .806 | 4.3 | 11.2* | 18.0 |
| 1967–68 | Chicago | 4 | 32.3 | .296 | .818 | 3.5 | 7.0 | 10.3 |
| 1967–68 | Cincinnati | 75 | 18.9 | .355 | .803 | 1.8 | 4.7 | 4.8 |
| 1968–69 | Milwaukee | 81 | 26.6 | .377 | .793 | 2.8 | 6.9 | 10.3 |
| 1969–70 | Milwaukee | 64 | 11.7 | .356 | .744 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| Career | 892 | 32.1 | .378 | .721 | 4.3 | 7.8 | 11.7 |
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Philadelphia | 9 | 41.1 | .360 | .556 | 8.6 | 6.0 | 13.1 |
| 1961 | Philadelphia | 3 | 40.3 | .368 | .550 | 7.0 | 5.0 | 17.7 |
| 1962 | Philadelphia | 12 | 40.2 | .359 | .636 | 5.9 | 7.3 | 11.6 |
| 1964 | San Francisco | 12 | 34.9 | .329 | .702 | 4.8 | 7.5 | 12.3 |
| 1967 | Chicago | 3 | 32.3 | .375 | .800 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | Milwaukee | 7 | 9.7 | .286 | .750 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 2.4 |
| Career | 46 | 33.8 | .350 | .640 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 11.0 |
Per-game averages. † won an NBA championship · * led the league · ‡ NBA record (as marked).
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- Height
- 6′ 0″
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Position
- Point guard
- Jersey
- Not listed
- Country
- USA
- School / last affiliation
- Not listed
- Draft year
- Not listed
- Draft pick
- Undrafted / not listed
Height, Weight, Position, Country: blank in the NBA.com profile, filled from the Wikipedia infobox credited in the About section above.
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