- Jon McGlocklin
Jon P. McGlocklin (born
June 10 ,1943 inFranklin, Indiana ) is an American former professionalbasketball player.A sharpshooting 6'5" guard from
Indiana University , McGlockin was selected by the Cincinnati Royals in the third round of the1965 NBA Draft , but he is best known for his 8-season (1968–1976) tenure with theMilwaukee Bucks , with whom he won an NBA Championship (as a teammate ofKareem Abdul-Jabbar andOscar Robertson ) in 1971. He scored 9,169 points in his NBA career, and his #14 jersey has been retired by the Bucks franchise. He also appeared in the1969 NBA All-Star Game Jon was best known for his high-arcing "rainbow" jump shot from the wings, in what would now be three-point territory. It was most effective when paired in a two-man play with Jabbar: if the opposing guard fell back to double-team Jabbar, Jon would make them pay from the perimeter; when the guard came out to defend him, he would pass the ball down to Jabbar with only one defender, who under most circumstances was out-matched.
He was selected as one of the Top 50 Basketball Players of the 20th Century in the state of Indiana, as well as being inducted into the
Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame , Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association, and Wisconsin Sports Hall of Fames.For the last 25 years, McGlocklin has been a member of the Bucks' television broadcasting team alongside Jim Paschke.
On the night of his retirement in 1976, Jon founded the
MACC Fund , which has become nationally recognized in its fight against childhood cancer.External links
* [http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mcglojo01.html Career statistics] at * [http://www.basketball-reference.com/ www.basketball-reference.com]
* [http://www.nba.com/bucks/history/retired_numbers_mcglocklin.html Profile] at * [http://www.nba.com/bucks/ www.nba.com/bucks]
* [http://www.hoopshall.com/inductees/1990/mcglocklin.html Indiana Sports Hall of Fame profile]
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