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Curtis Rowe
Rowe in his senior year at UCLA
Personal information
Born (1949-07-02) July 2, 1949 (age 74)
Bessemer, Alabama, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight225 lb (102 kg)
Career information
High school John C. Fremont
( Los Angeles, California)
College UCLA (1968–1971)
NBA draft 1971: 1st round, 11th overall pick
Selected by the Detroit Pistons
Playing career1971–1979
Position Power forward
Number18, 41
Career history
1971– 1976 Detroit Pistons
1976– 1979 Boston Celtics
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points6,873 (11.6 ppg)
Rebounds4,264 (7.2 rpg)
Assists932 (1.6 apg)
Stats  Edit this at Wikidata at NBA.com
Stats  Edit this at Wikidata at Basketball-Reference.com

Curtis Rowe, Jr. (born July 2, 1949) is an American retired basketball player.

A 6'7" forward from UCLA, Rowe was drafted by the Dallas Chaparrals in the 1971 ABA Draft and by the Detroit Pistons in the first round of the 1971 NBA draft. [1] Rowe opted to sign with Detroit and the NBA.

Rowe played eight seasons (1971–1979) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Detroit Pistons and the Boston Celtics. He averaged 11.6 points per game in his career and appeared in the 1976 NBA All-Star Game.

At UCLA, he was a member of three national championship teams coached by John Wooden: 1969, 1970 and 1971. He was one of only 4 players to have started on 3 NCAA championship teams; the others were all teammates at UCLA: Lew Alcindor, Henry Bibby and Lynn Shackelford.

In 1993 Rowe was inducted to the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

NBA career 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

Regular season

Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG STL BLK PPG
1971–72 Detroit 82 32.5 .460 .669 8.5 1.2 – – 11.3
1972–73 Detroit 81 37.1 .519 .642 9.4 2.1 – – 16.1
1973–74 Detroit 82 30.5 .494 .698 6.3 1.7 .6 .4 10.7
1974–75 Detroit 82 34.0 .483 .753 7.1 1.5 .6 .5 12.4
1975–76 Detroit 80 37.5 .468 .737 8.7 2.3 .6 .6 16.0
1976–77 Boston 79 27.7 .498 .708 7.1 1.4 .3 .6 10.1
1977–78 Boston 51 17.9 .451 .742 4.0 .9 .3 .2 6.1
1978–79 Boston 53 23.1 .436 .693 4.6 1.3 .3 .2 6.7
Career 590 31.0 .482 .701 7.2 1.6 .5 .5 11.6
All-Star 1 8.0 .000 .500 2.0 .0 – – 1.0

Playoffs

Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG STL BLK PPG
1974 Detroit 7 32.7 .481 .615 7.4 1.6 .4 .9 8.3
1975 Detroit 3 38.3 .515 .526 8.7 5.0 .3 1.7 14.7
1976 Detroit 9 38.4 .477 .853 7.8 2.9 .7 .9 15.0
1977 Boston 9 26.3 .471 .759 8.0 1.1 .1 .4 9.6
Career 28 33.1 .481 .726 7.9 2.2 .4 .8 11.5

Personal life

Curtis Rowe is the father of comedian Cameron Rowe. [2] [3]

References

  1. ^ DatabaseBasketball.com Curtis Rowe page Archived November 9, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Cam Rowe on true Curtis Rowe stories, retrieved March 5, 2022
  3. ^ "Interview with Detroit Comedian Cam Rowe". Detroit Comedy Scene. February 26, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2022.

External links

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