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{{Short description|American basketball player (1932–2020)}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox NBA biography
| name            = Dick Garmaker
| image           = Dick Garmaker.jpeg
| width           = 150px
| caption         = 
| height_ft       = 6
| height_in       = 3
| weight_lb       = 200
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1932|10|29}}
| birth_place     = [[Hibbing, Minnesota]], U.S.
| death_date      = {{death date and age|2020|6|13|1932|10|29}}
| death_place     = 
| high_school     = [[Hibbing High School|Hibbing]] (Hibbing, Minnesota)
| college         = 
*[[Hibbing Community College|Hibbing CC]] (1950–1952)
*[[Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball|Minnesota]] (1953–1955)
| draft_year      = 1955
| draft_round     = 
| draft_pick      = [[NBA territorial pick|territorial pick]]
| draft_team      = [[Minneapolis Lakers]]
| career_start    = 1955
| career_end      = 1961
| career_number   = 16, 18, 17
| career_position = [[Shooting guard]] / [[small forward]]
| years1          = {{nbay|1955|start}}–{{nbay|1959|end}}
| team1           = [[Minneapolis Lakers]]
| years2          = {{nbay|1959|end}}–{{nbay|1960|end}}
| team2           = [[New York Knicks]]
| highlights      = 
* 4× [[NBA All-Star]] ({{nasg|1957}}–{{nasg|1960}})
* [[All-NBA Second Team]] ({{nbay|1956|end}})
* Consensus first-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1955 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1955]])
* 2× First-team All-[[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]] (1954, 1955)
* No. 53 [[Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball#Retired numbers|retired by Minnesota Golden Gophers]]
| stats_league    = NBA
| stat1label      = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
| stat1value      = 5,597 (13.3 ppg)
| stat2label      = [[Rebound (basketball)|Rebounds]]
| stat2value      = 1,748 (4.2 rpg)
| stat3label      = [[Assist (basketball)|Assists]]
| stat3value      = 1,114 (2.6 apg)
}}
'''Richard Eugene Garmaker''' (October 29, 1932 – June 13, 2020) was an American [[basketball]] player who played professionally in the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) from 1955 to 1961.<ref name=OBIT>{{cite news|last=Rippel|first=Joel|title= Dick Garmaker, former Gophers All-America basketball star, dies at 87 |url= https://www.startribune.com/garmaker-former-gophers-all-america-basketball-star-dies-at-87/571251692/ |date=June 14, 2020|website=[[Star Tribune]]|accessdate=June 14, 2020}}</ref>

==College career==
Garmaker was a 6'3" [[Swingman|guard/forward]] from the [[University of Minnesota]].  He was a 1955 consensus [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] for the [[Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball|Golden Gophers]], along with [[Sihugo Green]] (Duquesne), [[Tom Gola]] (LaSalle), [[Bill Russell]] (San Francisco) and [[Dick Ricketts]] (Duquesne). 

==Professional career==
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]]. As a result of that fact, Garmaker became the first player in NBA history to be selected in multiple [[NBA draft]]s before the practice eventually became abolished in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bradley|first=Robert D.|title=The Basketball Draft Fact Book: A History of Professional Basketball's College Drafts|year=2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810890695}}, pg. 451</ref> In his four-and-a-half seasons with the Lakers, Garmaker appeared as an [[NBA All-Star Game|NBA All-Star]] four times.  He had his finest season in [[1956–57 NBA season|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.

==Death==
Dick Garmaker died at age 87 on June 13, 2020.<ref name=OBIT/>

== NBA career statistics ==
{{NBA player statistics legend}}

=== Regular season ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
!Year
!Team
!GP
!MPG
!FG%
!FT%
!RPG
!APG
!PPG
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1955–56 NBA season|1955–56]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1955–56 Minneapolis Lakers season|Minneapolis]]
|68
|12.8
|.370
|.806
|1.9
|1.5
|5.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1956–57 NBA season|1956–57]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1956–57 Minneapolis Lakers season|Minneapolis]]
|'''72'''
|33.4
|.400
|.839
|4.7
|2.6
|'''16.3'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1957–58 NBA season|1957–58]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1957–58 Minneapolis Lakers season|Minneapolis]]
|68
|32.6
|.395
|.764
|'''5.4'''
|2.7
|16.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1958–59 NBA season|1958–59]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1958–59 Minneapolis Lakers season|Minneapolis]]
|'''72'''
|'''34.6'''
|.395
|.772
|4.5
|2.9
|13.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1959–60 NBA season|1959–60]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1959–60 Minneapolis Lakers season|Minneapolis]]
|44
|27.0
|.377
|.718
|4.3
|'''3.0'''
|11.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1959–60 NBA season|1959–60]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1959–60 New York Knicks season|New York]]
|26
|28.7
|.431
|'''.860'''
|4.8
|2.8
|12.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1960–61 NBA season|1960–61]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1960–61 New York Knicks season|New York]]
|71
|31.5
|'''.440'''
|.768
|3.9
|3.1
|15.6
|- class="sortbottom"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Career
|421
|28.9
|.403
|.787
|4.2
|2.6
|13.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |All-Star
|4
|18.3
|.361
|.833
|4.8
|1.5
|7.8
|}

=== Playoffs ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
!Year
!Team
!GP
!MPG
!FG%
!FT%
!RPG
!APG
!PPG
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1956 NBA Playoffs|1956]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1955–56 Minneapolis Lakers season|Minneapolis]]
|3
|14.0
|.368
|'''.941'''
|2.7
|'''3.7'''
|10.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1957 NBA Playoffs|1957]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1956–57 Minneapolis Lakers season|Minneapolis]]
|5
|'''37.4'''
|.275
|.844
|'''7.0'''
|3.4
|13.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1959 NBA Playoffs|1959]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[1958–59 Minneapolis Lakers season|Minneapolis]]
|'''13'''
|33.8
|'''.424'''
|.778
|4.2
|3.0
|'''14.5'''
|- class="sortbottom"
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Career
|21
|31.8
|.379
|.821
|4.7
|3.2
|13.5
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/garmadi01.html Career stats] @basketball-reference.com

{{1955 NBA draft}}
{{1955 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans}}

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