- Dick Garmaker
-
Dick Garmaker No. 16, 18, 17 Guard / Small forward Personal information Date of birth October 29, 1932 Place of birth Hibbing, Minnesota Nationality American High school Hibbing Listed height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Listed weight 200 lb (91 kg) Career information College Minnesota NBA Draft 1955 / Pick: Territorial Selected by the Minneapolis Lakers Pro career 1955–1961 League NBA Career history 1955–1960 Minneapolis Lakers 1960–1961 New York Knicks Career highlights and awards - 4× NBA All-Star (1957–1960)
- All-NBA Second Team (1957)
- Consensus NCAA All-American First Team (1955)
Career NBA statistics Points 5,597 (13.3 ppg) Rebounds 1,748 (4.2 rpg) Assists 1,114 (2.6 apg) Stats at NBA.com Stats at Basketball-Reference.com Richard Eugene "Dick" Garmaker (born October 29, 1932 in Hibbing, Minnesota) is a retired American basketball player who played professionally in the NBA from 1955 to 1961.
Garmaker was a 6'3" guard/forward from the University of Minnesota. He was a 1955 consensus All-America for the Golden Gophers, along with Sihugo Green (Duquesne), Tom Gola (LaSalle), Bill Russell (San Francisco) and Dick Ricketts (Duquesne). He was drafted by the NBA's Minneapolis Lakers twice (in 1954 and again in 1955) and joined the team for the 1955-56 NBA season. In his four-and-a-half seasons with the Lakers, Garmaker appeared as an NBA All-Star four times. He had his finest season in 1956-57, in which he ranked tenth in the league in points per game (16.3) and earned a spot on the All-NBA second team. In 1960, he was traded to the New York Knicks for Ray Felix and a draft pick, and he retired with the Knicks in 1961, having scored 5,597 career points.
External links
- Career stats @basketball-reference.com
1955 NBA Draft Territorial pick Dick Garmaker · Tom GolaFirst round Second round Jack Stephens · Jack Twyman · Walter Devlin · Dickie Hemric · Jerry Mullen · Chuck Mencel · Jesse Arnelle · Don Schlundt1955 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans First Team
Dick Garmaker • Tom Gola • Sihugo Green • Dick Ricketts • Bill RussellSecond Team
Darrell Floyd • Robin Freeman • Dickie Hemric • Don Schlundt • Ronnie ShavlikCategories:- 1932 births
- Living people
- Basketball players from Minnesota
- People from Hibbing, Minnesota
- Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
- Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball players
- American basketball players
- Minneapolis Lakers draft picks
- Minneapolis Lakers players
- New York Knicks players
- American basketball biography, 1930s birth stubs
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.