Zelmo Beaty
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Zelmo "Big Z" Beaty (/ˈbeɪtiː/ BAY-tee;[1] October 25, 1939 – August 27, 2013) was an American basketball player.
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Early life
Zelmo Beaty Jr. was born on October 25, 1939 in Hillister, Texas. He attended Scott High School in Woodville, Texas and later Prairie View A&M. He was selected with the third pick of the 1962 National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft by the St. Louis Hawks.[2]
NBA
St. Louis Hawks
He was selected with the third pick of the 1962 National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft by the St. Louis Hawks.Beaty was named to the inaugural NBA All-Rookie Team in 1963. He averaged more than 20 points per game in three different seasons, and over ten rebounds per game in six of his seven seasons with the Hawks. A physical player, Beaty led the NBA in personal fouls in 1962-63 and 1965–66, and tied for the league lead in disqualifications during the 1963-64 season.[3] Beaty made two NBA All-Star Game appearances in 1966 and 1968 before leaving the NBA to play in the rival American Basketball Association (ABA).
ABA
Utah Stars
In his first season in the ABA, Beaty led the league in field goal percentage, was third in the league in rebounds per game, helped lead the Utah Stars to the 1971 ABA title, and was awarded the ABA Playoffs Most Valuable Player Award.[4] He played a total of four seasons with the Stars, being named to the All-ABA Second Team twice and making the ABA All-Star Game three times, before returning to the NBA as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers.[5]
Beaty retired in 1975 with combined ABA/NBA totals of 15,207 points and 9,665 rebounds.[2] He briefly served as a coach for the ABA's Virginia Squires.[1]
Personal
After pro ball, Beaty worked in financial planning. He also worked as a substitute physical education teacher in Seattle elementary schools. Beaty died from cancer on August 27, 2013 at his home in Bellevue, Washington. He was 73 years old. He had been married to his wife for about fifty years, and had two children.[1]
Posthumous Honors
Beaty was selected to be inducted into the 2014 National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame class.
References
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- Career statistics and player information from NBA.comLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). and Basketball-Reference.com
- Career statistics and player information from WNBA.comLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). and Basketball-Reference.comLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Remember the ABA: Zelmo Beaty
- Remembering Zelmo Beaty
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