Jay Arnette
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| Born |
December 19, 1938 Austin, Texas | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 175 lb (79 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | McCallum (Austin, Texas) | ||||||||||||
| College | Texas (1957–1960) | ||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 1960 / Round: 2 / Pick: 9th overall | ||||||||||||
| Selected by the Cincinnati Royals | |||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1963–1965 | ||||||||||||
| Position | Point guard | ||||||||||||
| Number | 21 | ||||||||||||
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| 1963–1965 | Cincinnati Royals | ||||||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||||
| Points | 424 (3.7 ppg) | ||||||||||||
| Rebounds | 116 (1.0 rpg) | ||||||||||||
| Assists | 139 (1.2 apg) | ||||||||||||
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |||||||||||||
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Jay Hoyland Arnette (born December 19, 1938[1]) is an American former professional basketball player.
A 6'2" guard born in Austin, Texas and from Austin's University of Texas, Arnette competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he won a gold medal with the United States national basketball team.[2] From 1963 to 1965, he played in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Cincinnati Royals, averaging 3.7 points per game.[1] In 2010, the 1960 United States men's Olympic basketball team on which Arnette played was collectively inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.[3]
Arnette later became an orthodontist in Austin, Texas.[3]
References
- 1 2 "Jay Arnette". basketball-reference.com. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
- ↑ "2014-15 Texas Basketball Fact Book" (PDF). texassports.com. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
- 1 2 "BCD alum to be inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame". tamhsc.edu. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
External links
- Jay Arnette at Basketball-Reference.com
- Olympians' Almanza and Arnette look back at a century of Horns hoops at TexasSports.com
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