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Game state source: whynba · Retrieved Oct 9, 7:43 pm EDTNBA legend. Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Biography, honors and career statistics below.
Harry Gallatin
Career at a glance
Harry Gallatin played 10 NBA regular seasons between 1948 and 1958, appearing in 682 games and averaging 13.0 points, 11.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game. He played for 2 teams: New York (1948–57, 610 games), Detroit (1957–58, 72 games). His best scoring season was 1956–57 with New York: 15.0 points per game over 72 games.
He rebounded best in 1953–54 at 15.3 per game. The season table marks him as the league leader in rebounding once. In the playoffs he appeared in 8 postseason runs (64 games, 12.0 points per game).
Multiplying each season’s games by its scoring average gives roughly 8,800 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, Gallatin ranks No. 18 in rebounds 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 Harry Gallatin
Harry Junior "The Horse" Gallatin (April 26, 1927 – October 7, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and coach. Gallatin played nine seasons for the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1948 to 1957, as well as one season with the Detroit Pistons in the 1957–58 season. Gallatin led the NBA in rebounding and was named to the All-NBA First Team in 1954. The following year, he was named to the All-NBA Second Team. For his career, Gallatin played in seven NBA All-Star Games. A member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, he is also a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, the SIU Edwardsville Athletics Hall of Fame, the Truman State University Athletics Hall of Fame, the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, two Illinois Basketball Halls of Fame, the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) Hall of Fame, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Hall of Fame, and the SIU Salukis Hall of Fame.
- Born
- April 26, 1927 Roxana, Illinois, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
- Listed weight
- 210 lb (95 kg)
- Position
- Power forward / center
- High school
- Roxana (Roxana, Illinois)
- College
- Truman (1946–1948)
- Playing career
- 1948–1958
Career highlights and awards
- 7× NBA All-Star (1951–1957)
- All-NBA First Team (1954)
- All-NBA Second Team (1955)
- NBA rebounding leader (1954)
- NBA Coach of the Year (1963)
Career statistics
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948–49 | New York | 52 | – | .328 | .710 | – | 1.2 | 8.3 |
| 1949–50 | New York | 68 | – | .396 | .757 | – | 0.8 | 11.8 |
| 1950–51 | New York | 66 | – | .416 | .732 | 12.1 | 2.7 | 12.8 |
| 1951–52 | New York | 66 | 29.3 | .442 | .806 | 10.0 | 3.4 | 11.2 |
| 1952–53 | New York | 70 | 33.3 | .444 | .700 | 13.1 | 1.8 | 12.4 |
| 1953–54 | New York | 72 | 37.4 | .404 | .784 | 15.3* | 2.1 | 13.2 |
| 1954–55 | New York | 72 | 35.4 | .384 | .814 | 13.8 | 2.4 | 14.6 |
| 1955–56 | New York | 72 | 33.0 | .386 | .787 | 10.3 | 2.3 | 13.9 |
| 1956–57 | New York | 72 | 27.0 | .406 | .800 | 10.1 | 1.2 | 15.0 |
| 1957–58 | Detroit | 72 | 27.6 | .379 | .787 | 10.4 | 1.2 | 14.9 |
| Career | 682 | 31.9 | .398 | .773 | 11.9 | 1.8 | 13.0 |
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | New York | 6 | – | .357 | .821 | – | 1.7 | 12.0 |
| 1950 | New York | 5 | – | .385 | .781 | – | 1.2 | 13.0 |
| 1951 | New York | 14 | – | .350 | .770 | 11.6 | 1.9 | 11.8 |
| 1952 | New York | 14 | 33.6 | .410 | .773 | 9.6 | 1.4 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | New York | 11 | 27.5 | .419 | .746 | 10.9 | 1.4 | 10.5 |
| 1954 | New York | 4 | 37.8 | .457 | .710 | 15.3 | 1.5 | 13.5 |
| 1955 | New York | 3 | 36.0 | .452 | .773 | 14.7 | 2.3 | 18.3 |
| 1958 | Detroit | 7 | 26.0 | .368 | .703 | 10.0 | 1.6 | 12.9 |
| Career | 64 | 31.2 | .390 | .761 | 11.2 | 1.6 | 12.0 |
Per-game averages. † won an NBA championship · * led the league · ‡ NBA record (as marked).
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- Height
- 6′ 6″
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Position
- Power forward / center
- 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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