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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.
Jack Twyman
Career at a glance
Jack Twyman played 11 NBA regular seasons between 1955 and 1966, appearing in 823 games and averaging 19.2 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game. He played for 2 teams: Rochester (1955–57, 144 games), Cincinnati (1957–66, 679 games). His best scoring season was 1959–60 with Cincinnati: 31.2 points per game over 75 games.
He rebounded best in 1958–59 at 9.1 per game. The season table marks him as the league leader in field-goal percentage once. In the playoffs he appeared in 6 postseason runs (34 games, 18.3 points per game).
Multiplying each season’s games by its scoring average gives roughly 15,800 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 Jack Twyman
John Kennedy Twyman (May 21, 1934 – May 30, 2012) was an American professional basketball player and sports broadcaster. During his career, he was a caregiver for his disabled teammate Maurice Stokes and both are the namesakes of the NBA's Twyman–Stokes Teammate of the Year Award. Twyman was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983.
- Born
- May 21, 1934 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
- Listed weight
- 210 lb (95 kg)
- Position
- Small forward
- High school
- Central Catholic (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
- College
- Cincinnati (1951–1955)
- NBA draft
- 1955: 2nd round, 8th overall pick
- Playing career
- 1955–1966
Career highlights and awards
- 6× NBA All-Star (1957–1960, 1962, 1963)
- 2× All-NBA Second Team (1960, 1962)
- No. 27 retired by Sacramento Kings
- Second-team All-American – NEA, INS (1955)
- No. 27 retired by Cincinnati Bearcats
Career statistics
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–56 | Rochester | 72 | 30.4 | .422 | .685 | 6.5 | 2.4 | 14.4 |
| 1956–57 | Rochester | 72 | 32.5 | .439 | .760 | 4.9 | 1.7 | 16.3 |
| 1957–58 | Cincinnati | 72 | 30.3 | .452* | .775 | 6.4 | 1.5 | 17.2 |
| 1958–59 | Cincinnati | 72 | 37.7 | .420 | .783 | 9.1 | 2.9 | 25.8 |
| 1959–60 | Cincinnati | 75 | 40.3 | .422 | .785 | 8.9 | 3.5 | 31.2 |
| 1960–61 | Cincinnati | 79 | 37.0 | .488 | .731 | 8.5 | 2.8 | 25.3 |
| 1961–62 | Cincinnati | 80 | 37.4 | .479 | .811 | 8.0 | 2.7 | 22.9 |
| 1962–63 | Cincinnati | 80 | 32.8 | .480 | .811 | 7.5 | 2.7 | 19.8 |
| 1963–64 | Cincinnati | 68 | 29.4 | .450 | .829 | 5.4 | 2.0 | 15.9 |
| 1964–65 | Cincinnati | 80 | 28.0 | .443 | .828 | 4.8 | 1.7 | 14.5 |
| 1965–66 | Cincinnati | 73 | 12.9 | .450 | .812 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 7.4 |
| Career | 823 | 31.8 | .450 | .778 | 6.6 | 2.3 | 19.2 | |
| All-Star | 6 | 19.5 | .559 | .650 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 14.8 |
| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Cincinnati | 2 | 37.0 | .333 | .583 | 11.0 | 0.5 | 18.5 |
| 1962 | Cincinnati | 4 | 37.3 | .436 | 1.000 | 7.3 | 3.0 | 19.0 |
| 1963 | Cincinnati | 12 | 34.2 | .449 | .844 | 8.2 | 2.5 | 20.8 |
| 1964 | Cincinnati | 10 | 35.4 | .472 | .796 | 8.7 | 1.6 | 20.5 |
| 1965 | Cincinnati | 4 | 24.3 | .396 | 1.000 | 4.3 | 0.8 | 12.3 |
| 1966 | Cincinnati | 2 | 5.5 | .500 | .500 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 |
| Career | 34 | 32.2 | .441 | .824 | 7.5 | 1.8 | 18.3 |
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
- Small forward
- Jersey
- Not listed
- Country
- USA
- School / last affiliation
- Not listed
- Draft year
- 1955
- Draft pick
- Round 2 · Pick 8
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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