- Bob Rule
Bobby (Bob) Frank Rule (born
June 29 1944 , inRiverside, California ) is a retired Americanbasketball player at center for the NBA'sSeattle SuperSonics ,Philadelphia 76ers ,Cleveland Cavaliers , and briefly, theMilwaukee Bucks .cite web | last = basketball-reference.com | first = | title = Bob Rule stats | url= http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rulebo01.html | accessdate = 2007-07-20]A second round pick in the
1967 NBA Draft , Rule quickly became one of the stars of Seattle's expansion franchise.citation | last = Andrieson | first = David | title = Sonics ushered Seattle into the big time 40 years ago Saturday | newspaper=The Seattle Post-Intelligencer | year=2007 |date = October 13, 2007 | url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/basketball/335376_originals13.html] cite web | last = www.nba.com | first = | title = Seattle Supersonics History | url= http://www.nba.com/sonics/history/history_recap.html | accessdate = 2007-07-20] Named to the 1967-68NBA All-Rookie Team , Rule's 18.1 points per game average stood as the SuperSonics rookie record for forty seasons, until broken byKevin Durant . His rebounding average of 9.5 is the second best ever by a SuperSonics rookie, behind onlyPete Cross 's 12.0 in the 1970-71 season. Also during his rookie season, Rule scored 47 points in a game against theLos Angeles Lakers — still a SuperSonics rookie record.Rule's game grew stronger during the next two seasons. In the 1968-69 season, he averaged 24.0 points per game and 11.5 rebounds per game. In the 1969-70 season, he averaged 24.6 points per game and 10.3 rebounds per game, set a then-Supersonics record of 49 points in a game against the Philadelphia 76ers, and played in the
1970 NBA All-Star Game . In the 1970-71 season, Rule began the season averaging 29.8 points per game and 11.5 rebounds per game in his first four games before going down with a season-ending tornachilles tendon . He never regained his All-Star form, and by 1974 his career was over.References
External links
* [http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rulebo01.html Career statistics at basketballreference.com]
* [http://www.nba.com/sonics/history/history_recap.html Seattle SuperSonics History]
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