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Tom Hawkins (basketball)

Thomas Jerome Hawkins (December 22, 1936 – August 16, 2017) was an American professional basketball player.

Tom Hawkins (basketball)

Thomas Jerome Hawkins (December 22, 1936 – August 16, 2017) was an American professional basketball player.

Thomas Jerome Hawkins (December 22, 1936 – August 16, 2017) was an American professional basketball player.

A 6-foot-5-inch (1.96 m) forward, Hawkins starred at Chicago's Parker (now Robeson) High School before playing at the University of Notre Dame, where he became the school's first African-American basketball star. He was then selected by the Minneapolis (later Los Angeles) Lakers in the first round of the 1959 NBA draft, and he would have a productive ten-year career in the league, playing for the Lakers as well as the Cincinnati Royals as he registered 6,672 career points and 4,607 career rebounds.

Hawkins later worked in radio and television broadcasting in Los Angeles and served as vice president of communications for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.

Hawkins died in his home in Malibu, California on August 16, 2017.

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6
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
*	Led the league

Source

Year	Team	GP	MPG	FG%	FT%	RPG	APG	PPG
1959–60	Minneapolis	69	21.3	.380	.646	6.2	.8	7.9
1960–61	L.A. Lakers	78	23.7	.431	.596	6.1	1.1	9.7
1961–62	L.A. Lakers	79	24.1	.411	.644	6.5	1.2	9.1
1962–63	Cincinnati	79	21.8	.471	.610	6.9	1.3	9.4
1963–64	Cincinnati	73	24.2	.441	.601	6.0	1.0	8.6
1964–65	Cincinnati	79	23.6	.409	.569	6.0	1.0	7.0
1965–66	Cincinnati	79	26.9	.452	.555	7.3	1.3	8.4
1966–67	L.A. Lakers	76	23.7	.481	.474	5.7	1.1	8.3
1967–68	L.A. Lakers	78	31.6	.499	.546	5.9	1.5	11.6
1968–69	L.A. Lakers	74	20.4	.499	.411	3.6	1.1	7.1
Career	764	24.2	.447	.570	6.0	1.1	8.7

Year	Team	GP	MPG	FG%	FT%	RPG	APG	PPG
1960	Minneapolis	8	14.9	.489	.833	2.6	.4	7.4
1961	L.A. Lakers	12*	23.6	.466	.660	6.3	1.1	11.6
1962	L.A. Lakers	13	15.6	.361	.417	5.1	1.5	4.2
1963	Cincinnati	12	22.0	.505	.723	6.8	1.9	10.5
1964	Cincinnati	10	27.3	.443	.682	9.3	1.1	10.1
1965	Cincinnati	4	23.8	.515	.800	7.0	.3	9.5
1966	Cincinnati	5	21.8	.458	.167	4.4	.2	4.6
1967	L.A. Lakers	3	31.7	.419	.500	6.7	3.3	10.0
1968	Los Angeles	15	31.9	.457	.600	6.0	1.2	9.5
1969	L.A. Lakers	14	12.9	.480	.389	2.9	.5	3.9
Career	96	21.9	.459	.617	5.6	1.1	8.0

Career stats at www.basketball-reference.com
Profile Deprecated link archived July 17, 2012, at archive.today at University of Notre Dame's Official Athletic Site Archived February 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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