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{{Short description|American basketball player and coach}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name            = Dick Triptow
| image           = Dick_Triptow_LFC.jpg
| image_size      = 
| caption         = Triptow from the 1962 ''Forester''
| height_ft       = 6
| height_in       = 0
| weight_lb       = 170
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1922|11|3}}
| birth_place     = [[Chicago, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date      = {{death date and age|2015|2|20|1922|11|3}}
| death_place     = [[Lake Forest, Illinois]], U.S.
| high_school     = [[Lane Technical College Prep High School|Lane Technical]] (Chicago, Illinois)
| college         = [[DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball|DePaul]] (1940–1944)
| career_start    = 1944
| career_end      = 1949
| career_number   = 28, 5
| career_position = [[Forward (basketball)|Forward]] / [[Guard (basketball)|guard]]
| coach_start     = 1959
| coach_end       = 1973
| years1          = 1944–1947
| team1           = [[Chicago American Gears]]
| years2          = 1947–1948
| team2           = [[Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons]]
| years3          = 1948
| team3           = [[Tri-Cities Blackhawks]]
| years4          = {{nbay|1948|full=y}}
| team4           = Fort Wayne Pistons
| years5          = {{nbay|1949|start}}
| team5           = [[Baltimore Bullets (1944–54)|Baltimore Bullets]]
| cyears1         = 1959–1973
| cteam1          = [[Lake Forest Foresters men's basketball|Lake Forest]]
| highlights      = 
* [[List of National Basketball League (United States) champions|NBL champion]] (1947)
* [[All-National Basketball League (United States) Team|All-NBL Second Team]] (1945)
* Consensus second-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1944 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1944]])
}}
'''Richard Floyd Triptow Jr.''' (November 3, 1922 – February 20, 2015) was an American professional [[basketball]] player and coach.<ref>{{cite news|title=Richard Triptow Obituary|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?pid=174233401|accessdate=26 February 2015|agency=Chicago Tribune|publisher=Tribune Publishing Company|date=24 February 2015}}</ref>  At 6'0" and 170 pounds, he played as a [[guard (basketball)|guard]] and a [[small forward|forward]].

Triptow attended [[Lane Technical College Prep High School|Lane Tech High School]] and [[DePaul University]], both in [[Chicago, Illinois]].  From 1944 to 1949, he played professional basketball in the [[National Basketball League (United States)|National Basketball League]] and [[National Basketball Association]] as a member of the [[Chicago American Gears]], the [[Tri-Cities Blackhawks]], the [[Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons]], and the [[Baltimore Bullets (1944–54)|Baltimore Bullets]].  Playing alongside [[George Mikan]], Triptow won an NBL championship with the Gears in 1947.  Triptow coached the [[Lake Forest College]] men's basketball team from 1959 to 1973.

In 1997, Triptow wrote a book about his experiences with the Chicago American Gears, called ''The Dynasty That Never Was'' ({{ISBN|0965928004}}).

==BAA/NBA career statistics==
{| class="toccolours" style="font-size: 90%; white-space: nowrap;"
|-
! colspan="6" style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid #aaa;"| Legend
|-
| style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"| &nbsp;&nbsp;GP
| Games played
| style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"| &nbsp;FG%&nbsp;
| style="padding-right: 8px" | [[Field goal (basketball)|Field-goal]] percentage
|-
| style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"| &nbsp;FT%&nbsp;
| [[Free throw|Free-throw]] percentage
| style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"| &nbsp;APG&nbsp;
| [[Assist (basketball)|Assists]] per game
|-
| style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"| &nbsp;PPG&nbsp;
| Points per game
| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | &nbsp;'''Bold'''&nbsp;
| Career high
|-
|}

===Regular season===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|-
! Year
! Team
! GP
! FG%
! FT%
! APG
! PPG
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| [[1948–49 BAA season|1948–49]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1948–49 Fort Wayne Pistons season|Fort Wayne]]
| '''55''' || '''.278''' || .723 || '''1.7''' || '''6.1'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1949}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1949–50 Baltimore Bullets season|Baltimore]]
| 4 || .000 || '''1.000''' || .3 || .5
|-
|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 59 || .275 || .727 || 1.6 || 5.7
|-
|}

==External links==
{{basketballstats|bbr=t/triptdi01}}
*[http://members.aol.com/bradleyrd/apbr.html Association for Professional Basketball Research's NBL statistics - downloadable database]

==References==
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