Talk:Pete Maravich
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Can somebody explain why the redirection page has it "Mavarich" and the article is "Maravich"? --squadfifteen, 18/10/05
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[edit] Scoring
Not an NBA fan, so, can somebody clarify, was the #1-scoring yer '77-8 or in '77 alone, or what? Trekphiler 01:33, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Answer: Each basketball season begins in October of one year and ends in June of the next, so '77-'78 is one season.
[edit] Re: Scoring
Pete Maravich's career best scoring average of 31.1 ppg was attained during the 1976-1977 basketball season, when he was playing for what was then the New Orleans Jazz. (The franchise moved and became the Utah Jazz in 1979 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Jazz )
Quoted from the NBA official site: http://www.nba.com/history/players/maravich_bio.html
"...The following season (1976-77) was Maravich's finest as a professional. He saw action in 73 games and led the NBA in scoring with a career-best 31.1 p p g. He scored 40 or more points 13 times, the most in the NBA that season and he led the league in total points (2,273), field goals attempted (2,047) and free throws made (501). On Feb. 25, 1977, he scored 68 points in a game against the New York Knicks despite the efforts of defensive ace Walt Frazier to bottle him up. Maravich's performance that day ranks as the 11th-best single-game total in NBA history. He returned to the NBA All-Star Game in 1977 and earned his second straight berth on the All-NBA First Team ..."
[edit] Issues
This is my first time editing anything on here, so i hope everthing worked, but there were lots of wrongly spelled words and incorrect grammar in the "legacy" section of the Maravich entry.
This article has a lot of cut and paste content from other websites... that's not good. I've removed some, I'm going to try to clean up the whole thing. --W.marsh 17:43, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- I reworked this article. Do you still think the tag is needed? savidan(talk) (e@) 18:59, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
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- No, as mentioned on your talk page, I think the article is a lot better. (just mentioning it here too for clarity) --W.marsh 19:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I've not heard of 'only one coronary artery.' An 'anomalous coronary artery' is more likely, and I believe Pete had an anomalous left coronary artery, if memory serves from news of the autopsy at the time.
[edit] Croatian?
I have read on some sites that he was of Croatian descent, does anyone know for sure what he was?
Someone told me his mother was Polish.
I remember that Rudy Tomjanovich, who is of Croatian descent, once said that he had played against Maravich, who asked him whether Tomjanovich is a Serb or a Croat. After getting the answer, Maravich just said something like: "I am a Serb and I'll destroy you on the court". Tomjanovich told this in an interview to the Serbian journalists as an anecdote, when he was visiting Serbia a few years ago, I'll try to find the exact quote somewhere.————→Vitriden 00:59, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Don't know about the above story but I did recently read an article in the Croatian press that Tomljanovic gave when he was there a few years ago. In it is stated that when Tomljanovich met Maravich, Maravich asked whether Tomjanovich "What are you, a Serb or a Croat?" To which Tomljanovich said he responded that he thought he was a Croat. In response to this, Maravich said: "Well then, I don't think the two of us can be friends". Tomljanovich said that despite this, later the two were acquaintances. See: http://www.nacional.hr/articles/view/13762/5/ -- 30 June 2007
[edit] Incredible Stat
"It was calculated by LSU coach Dale Brown that Maravich would have averaged 57 points per game with the benefit of a college three-point line.[verification needed]"
That would mean 13 of his shots per game were from behind the arc. I've never heard of anybody averaging 13 threes per game!
GeneCallahan (talk) 13:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
