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{{Short description|American professional basketball player and coach}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name         = Walt Hazzard
| image        = Walt Hazzard (UCLA).jpg
| caption      = Hazzard with [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball|UCLA]] {{circa|1964}}
| height_ft    = 6
| height_in    = 2
| weight_lb    = 185
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1942|4|15}} 
| birth_place  = [[Wilmington, Delaware]], U.S.<ref name=foster>{{citation |last=Foster |first=Chris |title=Walt Hazzard dies at 69; former Bruins basketball star and coach | newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 19, 2011 |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-walt-hazzard-20111119,0,3626479,full.story|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111119221901/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-walt-hazzard-20111119,0,3626479,full.story|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 19, 2011}}</ref>
| death_date   = {{death date and age|2011|11|18|1942|4|15}}
| death_place  = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| high_school  = 
*[[Moton High School (Maryland)|Moton]]<br>([[Easton, Maryland]])
*[[Overbrook High School (Philadelphia)|Overbrook]]<br>([[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]])
| college      = [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball|UCLA]] (1961–1964)
| draft_round  =
| draft_pick   = [[NBA territorial pick|territorial pick]]
| draft_year   = 1964
| draft_team   = [[Los Angeles Lakers]]
| career_start = 1964
| career_end   = 1974
| career_number = 42, 1, 44
| career_position = [[Point guard]] / [[shooting guard]]
| coach_start  = 1980
| coach_end    = 1988
| years1          = {{nbay|1964|start}}–{{nbay|1966|end}}
| team1           = [[Los Angeles Lakers]]
| years2          = {{nbay|1967|full=y}}
| team2           = [[Seattle SuperSonics]]
| years3          = {{nbay|1968|start}}–{{nbay|1970|end}}
| team3           = [[Atlanta Hawks]]
| years4          = {{nbay|1971|start}}–{{nbay|1972|start}}
| team4           = [[Buffalo Braves]]
| years5          = {{nbay|1972|full=y}}
| team5           = [[Golden State Warriors]]
| years6          = {{nbay|1973|full=y}}
| team6           = Seattle SuperSonics
| cyears1         = 1980–1982
| cteam1          = [[Compton College|Compton CC]]
| cyears2         = 1982–1984
| cteam2          = [[Chapman University|Chapman]]
| cyears3         = 1984–1988
| cteam3          = [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball|UCLA]]
| highlights   =
;As player:
* [[List of NBA All-Stars|NBA All-Star]] ([[1968 NBA All-Star Game|1968]])
* [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA champion]] ([[1964 NCAA University Division basketball tournament|1964]])
* [[NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player|NCAA Final Four MOP]] (1964)
* [[Oscar Robertson Trophy|USBWA Player of the Year]] (1964)
* [[Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year|Helms Player of the Year]] (1964)
* Consensus first-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1964 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1964]])
* First-team All-American ([[1963 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1963]])
* 2× First-team [[List of All-Pac-12 Conference men's basketball teams|All-AAWU]] (1963–1964)
* No. 42 [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball retired numbers|retired by UCLA Bruins]]
;As coach:
*[[National Invitation Tournament|NIT]] champion ([[1985 National Invitation Tournament|1985]])
*[[Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year|Pac-10 Coach of the Year]] (1987)
| stat1label      = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
| stat1value      = 9,087 (12.6 ppg)
| stat2label      = [[Rebound (basketball)|Rebounds]]
| stat2value      = 2,146 (3.0 rpg)
| stat3label      = [[Assist (basketball)|Assists]]
| stat3value      = 3,555 (4.9 apg)
| bbr             = abdulma01
| medal_templates = 
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Basketball at the Summer Olympics|basketball]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{flagu|United States}} }}
{{MedalOlympics}}
{{MedalGold|[[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Tokyo]] | [[Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics|Team competition]]}}
}}
'''Mahdi Abdul-Rahman''' (born '''Walter Raphael Hazzard Jr.'''; April 15, 1942 – November 18, 2011) was an American professional [[basketball]] player and [[college basketball]] coach. He played in college for the [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball|UCLA Bruins]] and was a member of their first national championship team in 1964. He also won a gold medal that year with the [[United States men's national basketball team|US national team]] at the [[Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Summer Olympics]]. Hazzard began his pro career in the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) with the [[Los Angeles Lakers]], who selected him a [[NBA territorial pick|territorial pick]] in the [[1964 NBA draft]]. He was named an [[NBA All-Star]] with the [[Seattle SuperSonics]] in 1968. After his playing career ended, he was the head coach at UCLA during the 1980s.

==College career==
[[File:Walt Hazzard 1964.jpg|thumb|right|Hazzard at UCLA in 1964]]
Hazzard attended [[Overbrook High School (Philadelphia)|Overbrook High School]] in [[Philadelphia]], where his teams went 89–3 and he was named the city's player of the year when he was a senior.<ref name=foster/> Hazzard went on to the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], where he became a key player on the [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball|Bruins]] varsity basketball team. In Hazzard's first season on the varsity squad, UCLA made their first [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|Final Four]] appearance in the [[1962 NCAA University Division basketball tournament|1962 NCAA tournament]]. They lost 72–70 to eventual champion [[1961–62 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team|Cincinnati]] in the semi-finals.

UCLA's first undefeated season in [[1963–64 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team|1963–64]] was in no small part due to Hazzard, his backcourt partner [[Gail Goodrich]], and coach [[John Wooden]]. The team won its first [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA Championship]], and Hazzard was selected by the [[Associated Press]] as the tournament's [[NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player|Most Valuable Player]]. Following UCLA's victory in the 1964 tournament, ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' featured a cover photograph of Walt Hazzard dribbling the basketball up court and the headline, "UCLA Is The Champ. Walt Hazzard Drives Through Duke." Hazzard was chosen as an [[All-America]]n and also selected as College Player of the Year by the [[United States Basketball Writers Association]] (USBWA). His number 42 jersey was [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball retired numbers|retired by UCLA]] in 1996 in [[Pauley Pavilion]], but Hazzard gave his permission for stand-out recruit [[Kevin Love (basketball)|Kevin Love]] to wear the number.

Hazzard and [[Bill Bradley]] earned a spot on the [[Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Olympic basketball team]] for the U.S., which unsurprisingly won the gold medal. He was pre-draft territorial pick in 1964 by the [[Los Angeles Lakers]].<ref name=foster/>

==NBA career==
Hazzard later played in the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]], first with the [[Los Angeles Lakers]] from 1964 to 1967, then the [[Seattle SuperSonics]], the [[Atlanta Hawks]], the [[Buffalo Braves]], and briefly for the [[Golden State Warriors]]. He returned to the SuperSonics for the [[1973–74 NBA season|1973–74 season]], after which he retired from professional basketball.

While playing for the SuperSonics in their inaugural [[1967–68 NBA season|1967–68 season]], Hazzard scored a career high 24.0 points per game, averaged 6.2 [[assist (basketball)|assists]] per game, and was selected to play in the [[1968 NBA All-Star Game]].<ref name=ap>{{citation |title=Walt Hazzard, Former Star and Coach for U.C.L.A., Dies at 69 | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 18, 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/sports/basketball/walt-hazzard-former-star-and-coach-for-ucla-dies-at-69.html}}</ref> Seattle traded him to the Hawks during the off-season for [[Lenny Wilkens]].<ref name=andrieson>{{citation | last = Andrieson | first = David | title = Sonics ushered Seattle into the big time 40 years ago Saturday | newspaper=[[The Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |date = October 13, 2007 | url=http://www.seattlepi.com/basketball/335376_originals13.html}}</ref> Hazzard's career-high average in assists came during the [[1969–70 NBA season|1969–70 season]], when he averaged 6.8 assists per game while playing for the Hawks.

==Coaching career==
In 1980, Hazzard took a part-time position paying $1,500 annually to be the head coach at [[Compton Community College]].<ref name=feinstein_04071984>{{cite news|last=Feinstein|first=John|title=Questions Still Punctuate The Sentences at UCLA|date=April 7, 1984|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1984/04/07/questions-still-punctuate-the-sentences-at-ucla/ee9f43da-198d-4f2c-a4c6-627c5db88083/|access-date=November 11, 2019}}</ref><ref name=mccallum_04161984/> He compiled a 53–9 record in his two seasons, but 21 wins from the first season were later forfeited because he used an ineligible player. According to Hazzard, poor records from the season before his arrival failed to note that the ineligible player had played that season.<ref name=mccallum_04161984/> He went on to [[NCAA Division II|Division II]] school [[Chapman College]], where he coach two seasons with a 44–14 record.<ref name=feinstein_04071984/>

In 1984, he returned to UCLA as its men's basketball coach, twenty years after winning the national championship as a player. That same year, he was inducted into the [[UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame]].<ref>[http://uclabruins.collegesports.com/trads/121897aac.html UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame]</ref> He coached for four seasons, winning 77 out of 125 games. The [[1984–85 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team|1984–85 UCLA Bruins basketball team]] won the [[National Invitation Tournament|NIT]] championship. The [[1986–87 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team|1986–87 Bruins]] won both the [[Pac-12 Conference|Pac-10]] regular season championship as well as the inaugural [[Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament|Pac-10 tournament]]. However, after the [[1987–88 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team|1987–88 Bruins]] finished only two games above .500—the closest they had come to a losing record in 40 years—Hazzard was fired.

He later spent a number of years working for the Los Angeles Lakers, first as an advance [[Scout (sport)|scout]] on the west coast and later as a special consultant.

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

===Playing statistics===

====Regular season====
{{NBA player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1964}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1964–65 Los Angeles Lakers season|Los Angeles]]
| 66 || – || 13.9 || .382 || – || .648 || 1.7 || 2.1 || – || – || 4.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1965}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1965–66 Los Angeles Lakers season|Los Angeles]]
| 80 || – || 27.5 || .457 || – || .708 || 2.7 || 4.9 || – || – || 13.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1966}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1966–67 Los Angeles Lakers season|Los Angeles]]
| 79 || – || 20.8 || .426 || – || .729 || 2.9 || 4.1 || – || – || 9.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1967}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1967–68 Seattle SuperSonics season|Seattle]]
| 79 || – || 33.7 || .441 || – || .774 || '''4.2''' || 6.2 || – || – || '''24.0'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1968}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1968–69 Atlanta Hawks season|Atlanta]]
| 80 || – || 30.3 || .397 || – || .707 || 3.3 || 5.9 || – || – || 11.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1969}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1969–70 Atlanta Hawks season|Atlanta]]
| '''82''' || – || 33.6 || '''.467''' || – || .809 || 4.0 || '''6.8''' || – || – || 15.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1970}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1970–71 Atlanta Hawks season|Atlanta]]
| '''82''' || – || '''35.1''' || .459 || – || .759 || 3.7 || 6.3 || – || – || 16.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1971}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1971–72 Buffalo Braves season|Buffalo]]
| 72 || – || 33.2 || .451 || – || .782 || 3.0 || 5.6 || – || – || 15.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1972}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1972–73 Buffalo Braves season|Buffalo]]
| 9 || – || 14.9 || .417 || – || .500 || 1.1 || 1.9 || – || – || 5.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1972}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1972–73 Golden State Warriors season|Golden State]]
| 46 || – || 13.7 || .418 || – || '''.863''' || 1.7 || 2.4 || – || – || 4.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1973}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1973–74 Seattle SuperSonics season|Seattle]]
| 49 || – || 11.7 || .422 || – || .756 || 1.2 || 2.5 || '''.5''' || '''.1''' || 3.8
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 724 || – || 26.5 || .441 || – || .757 || 3.0 || 4.9 || .5 || .1 || 12.6
{{S-end}}

====Playoffs====
{{NBA player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1965 NBA playoffs|1965]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1964–65 Los Angeles Lakers season|Los Angeles]]
| 7 || – || 16.9 || .333 || – || .750 || 2.6 || 4.3 || – || – || 7.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1966 NBA playoffs|1966]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1965–66 Los Angeles Lakers season|Los Angeles]]
| '''14''' || – || 24.3 || .493 || – || .619 || 2.9 || 3.1 || – || – || 11.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1967 NBA playoffs|1967]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1966–67 Los Angeles Lakers season|Los Angeles]]
| 3 || – || 28.7 || .240 || – || .800 || 2.7 || 5.3 || – || – || 6.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1969 NBA playoffs|1969]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1968–69 Atlanta Hawks season|Atlanta]]
| 11 || – || 32.7 || .393 || – || .787 || 3.0 || 3.9 || – || – || 14.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1970 NBA playoffs|1970]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1969–70 Atlanta Hawks season|Atlanta]]
| 7 || – || 36.4 || '''.500''' || – || .625 || 3.4 || '''7.7''' || – || – || '''21.4'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1971 NBA playoffs|1971]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1970–71 Atlanta Hawks season|Atlanta]]
| 5 || – || '''40.4''' || .329 || – || .800 || '''5.0''' || 5.4 || – || – || 14.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1973 NBA playoffs|1973]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1972–73 Golden State Warriors season|Golden State]]
| 11 || – || 19.5 || .357 || – || '''1.000''' || 1.8 || 2.5 || – || – || 6.5
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 58 || – || 27.2 || .413 || – || .738 || 2.9 || 4.2 || – || – || 11.8
{{S-end}}

===Coaching statistics===
{{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = | conference = | postseason= | poll = }}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name       = [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball|UCLA Bruins]]
 | conference = [[Pac-12 Conference|Pacific-10 Conference]]
 | startyear  = 1984
 | endyear    = 1988
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = postseason
 | season       = [[1984–85 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1984–85]]
 | name         = [[1984–85 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team|UCLA]]
 | overall      = 21–12
 | conference   = 12–6
 | confstanding = 3rd
 | postseason   = [[1985 National Invitation Tournament|NIT champion]]
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[1985–86 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1985–86]]
 | name         = [[1985–86 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team|UCLA]]
 | overall      = 15–14
 | conference   = 9–9
 | confstanding = 4th
 | postseason   = [[1986 National Invitation Tournament|NIT first round]]
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | season       = [[1986–87 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1986–87]]
 | name         = [[1986–87 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team|UCLA]]
 | overall      = 25–7
 | conference   = 14–4
 | confstanding = 1st
 | postseason   = [[1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA Division I second round]]
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[1987–88 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1987–88]]
 | name         = [[1987–88 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team|UCLA]]
 | overall      = 16–14
 | conference   = 12–6
 | confstanding = 2nd
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name         = UCLA
 | overall      = 77–47
 | confrecord   = 47–25
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
 | overall = 77–47
}}

==Personal life and death==
In the summer of 1972, Hazzard embraced [[Islam]], and started going by the name "Mahdi Abdul-Rahman" in 1972–73,<ref>{{cite news|last=Cunningham|first=George|title=Things Look Up for Abdul-Rahman|date=November 18, 1972|newspaper=The Atlanta Constituation|page=6-C|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38809423/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=November 11, 2019}}</ref> his eighth season in the NBA.<ref name=mccallum_04161984/> In 1976–77, he returned to study at UCLA, completing his degree in [[kinesiology]] at age 35.<ref>{{cite news|last=Weiss|first=Dick|title=Days of Hazzard Begin at UCLA|date=April 10, 1984|newspaper=Philadelphia Daily News|page=83|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38809585/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=November 11, 2019}}</ref> By 1980 when he joined Compton, he changed his name to Abdul-Rahman Hazzard. One of the reasons he cited was the recognition of the name ''Hazzard''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hazzard: Things Are A Little Different At Compton|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|at=Section III, p. 12|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38871518/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=November 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Hazzard finds peace in coaching|date=February 21, 1981|agency=AP|newspaper=The Journal Herald|page=5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38871534/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=November 12, 2019}}</ref> He felt that the name change was poorly received in basketball circles, believing that it cost him opportunities, both during and after his playing career. Although he remained a [[Muslim]], he chose to return to using his original name professionally.<ref name=mccallum_04161984>{{cite magazine|last=McCallum|first=Jack|title=The March of the Wooden Soldiers|date=April 16, 1984|magazine=Sports Illustrated|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1984/04/16/619795/the-march-of-the-wooden-soldiers|access-date=November 11, 2019}}</ref> In 1984, UCLA introduced him as Walt Hazzard when they hired him as their coach.<ref>{{cite news|title=Around the league|date=April 3, 1984|newspaper=The Orlando Sentinel|page=C-4|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38871665/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=November 12, 2019}}</ref>

Hazzard and his wife Jaleesa had four children: Yakub, Jalal, [[Rasheed Hazzard|Rasheed]], and Khalil, the latter being a [[record producer]], well known in [[Hip hop music|hip hop]] circles by the stage name [[DJ Khalil]]. Hazzard's grandsons, Jacob and Max Hazzard, also play basketball. Jacob is a former walk-on basketball player at [[Arizona Wildcats men's basketball|Arizona]], and Max played basketball for [[UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball|UC Irvine]] and Arizona.

On March 22, 1996, Hazzard was hospitalized following a stroke.<ref>Ex-Bruins coach Hazzard is stable following stroke. Los Angeles Daily News, March 23, 1996.</ref> Although he made a substantial recovery over the ensuing years, his health never returned in full and subsequent to his illness he was much less active in the public sphere. Shortly after the stroke, Lakers owner [[Jerry Buss]] promised Hazzard's family that he would remain on the team's payroll as long as Buss owned the team; Hazzard remained a Lakers employee for the rest of his life.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/8959319/los-angeles-lakers-owner-jerry-buss-had-vision-unlike-other |title=Jerry Buss: A true sports visionary |first=Ramona |last=Shelburne |work=[[ESPN.com|ESPNLosAngeles.com]] |date=February 19, 2013 |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> By the middle of 2011, his health had deteriorated significantly and he was hospitalized in [[Intensive care unit|intensive care]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/commentary/story/_/page/abdul-jabbar-120305/ucla-alum-kareem-abdul-jabbar-bemoans-loss-john-wooden-ideals-alma-mater|title = Abdul-Jabbar: What John Wooden could teach Ben Howland|date = March 5, 2012}}</ref> On November 18 of that year, Hazzard died at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center due to complications following heart surgery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/los-angeles/ncb/story/_/id/7252549/walt-hazzard-point-guard-ucla-first-title-team-dies-69|title = Hazzard dies at 69; led UCLA's first title team|date = November 19, 2011}}</ref> He was 69. Walt Hazzard is interred in the Muslim section at [[Rose Hills Memorial Park]] in Los Angeles.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}

==References==
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*[http://www.uclabruins.com www.uclabruins.com UCLA Men's Basketball Media Guide]
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