Larry Staverman

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Lawrence Joseph Staverman (October 11, 1936 – July 12, 2007)[1] was an American professional basketball player and coach.

Basketball career

A 6'7" forward from Villa Madonna College (now known as Thomas More College), Staverman was drafted in the 9th round of the 1958 NBA draft by the Cincinnati Royals. He had a five-year career as a player in the NBA, with the Royals, the Chicago Zephyrs/Baltimore Bullets, and the Detroit Pistons.

Coaching career

Staverman was the first coach of the American Basketball Association's Indiana Pacers. He coached the team for its first season, where they went 38–40 and lost in a three-game sweep in the playoffs. According to his family, Staverman made sure to keep the game ball of the first Pacers game ever played. [2]

He coached the first nine games of the next season before being replaced by Bobby Leonard. He later served as an interim coach for the Kansas City Kings in the 1977–78 season after they had won just thirteen of 37 games to start the year. He went 18–27 as the Kings finished dead last in the Western Conference. He was replaced by Cotton Fitzsimmons as head coach for the next season, although he stayed with the Kings until May 1981, when he resigned organization to join the Cleveland Browns as an assistant to the team president.[3]

Career playing statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

NBA

Source[4]

Regular season

Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG PPG
Template:Nbay Cincinnati 57 11.9 .470 .763 3.8 .9 4.3
Template:Nbay Cincinnati 49 9.8 .470 .734 3.7 .7 3.8
Template:Nbay Cincinnati 66 14.3 .446 .849 4.3 1.3 4.6
Template:Nbay Chicago 33 18.2 .485 .790 4.8 1.3 7.2
Template:Nbay Baltimore 6 16.5 .429 1.000 2.2 .3 2.7
Template:Nbay Detroit 20 12.8 .537 .667 3.5 .6 5.7
Template:Nbay Cincinnati 34 9.4 .414 .830 2.8 .5 4.0
Career 265 12.8 .465 .785 3.8 .9 4.7

Playoffs

Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG PPG
1963 Cincinnati 7 10.0 .478 .789 3.7 .7 5.3

Head coaching record

ABA/NBA

Template:NBA coach statistics start |- | style="text-align:left;"|Indiana* | style="text-align:left;"|1967–68 | 78||38||40||Template:Winning percentage|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Eastern||3||0||3||Template:Winning percentage | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Division semifinals |- | style="text-align:left;"|Indiana* | style="text-align:left;"|1968–69 | 9||2||7||Template:Winning percentage|| style="text-align:center;"|Fired mid-season||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:left;"|Kansas City | style="text-align:left;"|Template:Nbay | 45||18||27||Template:Winning percentage|| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Midwest||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"| |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 132||58||74||Template:Winning percentage|| ||3||0||3||Template:Winning percentage||  |}

References

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  1. ↑ Social Security Death Index
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External links

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