Tom Boswell (basketball)
Appearance
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Born | Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. | October 2, 1953||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 220 lb (100 kg) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
High school | George Washington Carver (Montgomery, Alabama) | ||||||||||||||
College |
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NBA draft | 1975: 1st round, 17th overall pick | ||||||||||||||
Selected by the Boston Celtics | |||||||||||||||
Position | Power forward / center | ||||||||||||||
Number | 31, 41, 33 | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
1975–1978 | Boston Celtics | ||||||||||||||
1978–1979 | Denver Nuggets | ||||||||||||||
1979–1980 | Utah Jazz | ||||||||||||||
1980–1981 | Squibb Cantù | ||||||||||||||
1983–1984 | Utah Jazz | ||||||||||||||
1984–1985 | Wisconsin Flyers | ||||||||||||||
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Stats at NBA.com | |||||||||||||||
Stats at Basketball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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Tommy G. Boswell (born October 2, 1953) is a retired American professional basketball player.
A 6'9" (2.06 m) forward/center from the University of South Carolina, Boswell played six seasons (1975–1980;1983–1984) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets, and Utah Jazz. He averaged 7.7 points per game in his NBA career and won an NBA Championship with Boston in 1976.
He played for the U.S. men's national basketball team in the 1974 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ 1974 USA Basketball Archived August 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
External links
[edit]- Career statistics from NBA.com and Basketball Reference
- Legabasket.it Profile
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- 20th-century American sportsmen
- 21st-century African-American sportsmen
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- American expatriate basketball people in Italy
- American men's basketball players
- Basketball players from Montgomery, Alabama
- Boston Celtics draft picks
- Boston Celtics players
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- American basketball biography, 1950s birth stubs