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{{Short description|American basketball player (1936–2012)}}
{{for|the union leader and U.S. Secretary of Labor|Peter J. Brennan}}
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{{Infobox NBA biography
| name         = Pete Brennan
| image        = Pete Brennan.jpeg
| width        = 150px
| caption      =
| height_ft    = 6
| height_in    = 6
| weight_lb    = 205
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1936|9|23}}
| birth_place  = [[Brooklyn, New York]], U.S.
| death_date   = {{death date and age|2012|6|8|1936|9|23}}
| death_place  = [[Durham, North Carolina]], U.S.
| high_school  = St. Augustine (Brooklyn, New York)
| college      = [[North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball|North Carolina]] (1955–1958)
| draft_year   = 1958
| draft_round  = 1
| draft_pick   = 4
| draft_team   = [[New York Knicks]]
| career_start = 1958
| career_end   = 1959
| career_number = 15, 16
| career_position = [[Small forward]]
| years1       = {{nbay|1958|full=y}}
| team1        = [[New York Knicks]]
| highlights = 
* [[List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Champions|NCAA champion]] ([[1957 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|1957]])
* Consensus second-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1958 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1958]])
* [[Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year|ACC Player of the Year]] ([[1957–58 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season|1958]])
* First-team [[List of All-Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball teams|All-ACC]] (1958)
* Second-team All-ACC (1957)
}}

'''Peter Joseph Brennan''' (September 23, 1936 &ndash; June 8, 2012) was an American [[basketball]] player. He played one season in the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) for the [[New York Knicks]].

==Early life==
Brennan was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]].  He played collegiately for the [[North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball|University of North Carolina]], where he was chosen [[ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year]] in the 1957–58 season.

==Career==
He was selected by the [[New York Knicks]] in the first round (4th pick overall) of the [[1958 NBA draft]]. He played for the Knicks (1958–59) in the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] for 16 games.

===Honors===
He was inducted into the [[North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2007.

==Death==
Brennan died of prostate cancer on June 8, 2012, in Durham, North Carolina.<ref>[http://www.chapelboro.com/Pete-Brennan--Tar-Heel-Legend--Dies-At-75/13385783 Pete Brennan, Tar Heel Legend, Dies At 75] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614015936/http://www.chapelboro.com/Pete-Brennan--Tar-Heel-Legend--Dies-At-75/13385783 |date=2012-06-14 }}</ref>

==Career statistics==
{{NBA player statistics legend}}

===NBA===
Source<ref name=bbr>{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/brennpe01.html|title=Pete Brennan NBA stats|website=[[Basketball Reference]]|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|accessdate=10 December 2023}}</ref>

====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;"| {{nbay|1958}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1958–59 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 16 || 8.5 || .302 || .560 || 1.9 || .4 || 2.5
{{S-end}}

====Playoffs====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
!Year
!Team
!GP
!MPG
!FG%
!FT%
!RPG
!APG
!PPG
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1959 NBA playoffs|1959]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1958–59 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 2 || 3.0 || .286 || .000 || 2.5 || .0 || 2.0
{{S-end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{basketballstats|bbr=b/brennpe01|name=Pete Brennan}}

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[[Category:Basketball players from Brooklyn]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportsmen]]


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