George Gervin autographed mini-basketball & photo


Item Number: 271

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Value: $120

Online Close: Sep 30, 2008 10:00 PM CDT

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Description

Mini-size autographed Basketball signed by NBA Hall of Fame Basketball player George Gervin & 8x10 autographed photo.


George "The Iceman" Gervin (born April 27, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is a retired American professional basketball player; a shooting guard for the American Basketball Association's (ABA) Virginia Squires and San Antonio Spurs and the National Basketball Association's (NBA) San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls. Gervin averaged at least 14 points in all 14 of his ABA and NBA seasons, and finished with an NBA career average of 26.2 points per game. Despite his lack of defensive recognition, Gervin retired with the second-most blocks of any NBA guard.


Gervin was inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame, had his #44 jersey retired by the Spurs and was named to the NBA's 50 Greatest Players.[1] Gervin was ranked #25 on SLAM Magazine's Top 75 NBA Players of All Time in 2003. He remains active in the San Antonio community in part through the George Gervin Youth Center. Gervin is beloved in San Antonio. At the time of his trade to the Bulls, he held nearly every significant scoring record in Spurs history. Many of his records have been shattered by David Robinson, but Gervin is still the Spurs' all-time leader in field goals made (9,201), field goal attempts (18,111) and points (23,602).


Though a revered NBA and ABA All-Star and Hall of Famer, Gervin never made an appearance with a team in either an NBA or ABA championship series during his 13-year career in American professional basketball. Gervin holds the distinction of being a former teammate of both Julius Erving (with the Squires) and Michael Jordan (with the Bulls).

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NOTE I: Bio & facts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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