NBA. com: Rick Barry Bio. Full Name: Richard Francis Dennis Barry IIIBorn: 3/2. Elizabeth, N. J. High School: Roselle Park (N. J.)College: Miami (Fla.)Drafted: San Francisco Warriors, 1. Transactions: Signed with Oakland of ABA, 1. Traded to N. Y. Nets, 1. Returned to Warriors, '7. Signed with Houston, 6/1. Height: 6- 7; Weight: 2. Honors: Elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (1. NBA champion (1. 97. NBA Finals MVP (1. All- NBA First Team (1. All- NBA Second Team (1. Hall of Fame forward Rick Barry is the only player ever to lead the NCAA, NBA, and ABA in scoring. His name appears near the top of every all-time offensive list. Charles Durning, Actor: The Sting. WWII veteran, dance instructor and diversely talented stage & screen actor were all inclusions on the resume of this perpetually. Rookie of the Year (1. Eight- time All- Star; All- Star MVP (1. One of 5. 0 Greatest Players in NBA History (1. His name appears near the top of every all- time offensive list. He scored more than 2. He was named to 1. All- Star teams, four All- NBA First Teams, and five All- ABA First Teams. Barry was a nearly unstoppable offensive juggernaut, a passionate competitor with an untempered desire to win. Occasionally his fiery competitiveness would grate on rivals - - and teammates, too. Barry, a 1. 2- time All- Star, scored more than 2. Richard Pilling/NBAE/Getty Images. Mike Dunleavy, a teammate and friend of the tempestuous Barry, told the Chicago Tribune, .
He led an otherwise ordinary Golden State club to the NBA Championship in 1. He was a deadly free- throw shooter, using an odd, outdated underhand style. At the time of his retirement, Barry's . NBA history. In one season, 1. In 1. 96. 4- 6. 5, his senior season, he was the NCAA Division I scoring champion with 3. He scored 2. 5. 7 points per game (fourth in the league), made the All- Star Team, was named NBA Rookie of the Year and earned a berth on the All- NBA First Team. Only Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor had previously averaged more, and only Michael Jordan did better over the next quarter century. New York Knicks, Barry set an NBA record for most free throws made in one quarter when he canned 1. He made the second appearance of his eight NBA All- Star selections and won the game's MVP Award in 1. At season's end, Barry earned a second consecutive selection to the All- NBA First Team. Barry matched Chamberlain's playoff record set five- years earlier by launching 4. Game 3. He made 2. Finals record with Baylor. His 5. 5 points in the game are the second- highest total in NBA Finals history, tied later by Jordan in 1. Baylor's 6. 1 for the Lakers in 1. Barry also scored 4. His 4. 0. 8 scoring average for the series was an NBA Finals record until Jordan scored 4. A court dispute over his obligation to the Warriors sidelined Barry for the entire 1. Oaks for the 1. 96. The ensuing public fuss did not reflect well on Barry. His league- jumping was perceived by fans as being driven by greed, even though other players were also taking advantage of the opportunities provided by the upstart ABA. San Francisco had offered equal compensation, but the Oakland franchise had hired Bruce Hale as its head coach. Hale was not only Barry's former head coach at Miami, but also his father- in- law. Ironically, by the time Barry was cleared to play for Oakland, Hale had departed and Alex Hannum had taken the coaching reins. Although a knee injury limited him to 3. Barry averaged 3. At season's end, Hannum was named ABA Coach of the Year. He was quoted in the Los Angeles Times: . Once again, he wound up in court, where he was ordered to honor his ABA contract. After one season in Washington, the Caps moved again, to become the Virginia Squires. Barry made some comments to sportswriters about Virginians (. Somehow, the tumult settled down, and he averaged 2. Nets. But his seven seasons in professional basketball had landed him in two leagues - - with three different teams in four different cities - - and in court twice. Although he had become comfortable with the Nets of the ABA, a court decision forced Barry to return to the NBA's Golden State Warriors for the 1. Upon his return to the NBA, he was a different, better player. For one thing, he had bulked up by about 2. NBA's big boys when he had to. He also had developed other skills beyond scoring. He had once distressed ABA officials when, with hyperbolic candor, he suggested that only two ABA players had the skills to play in the NBA. But his general point was well taken: he did not have much of a supporting cast. Because he had to do it all to win in the ABA, he had been forced to develop his ballhandling and defensive talents. He played six more seasons with the Warriors, and they made the playoffs four times. In 1. 97. 2- 7. 3, he scored 2. He also earned the first of six NBA free- throw percentage titles. A perennial All- Star, he began a string of six more midseason appearances and nabbed the first of three consecutive All- NBA First Team selections, to go with the two honors he had won in 1. He had his greatest scoring night on March 2. Portland Trail Blazers. In the first half he was merely hot, with 1. In the second half, however, he lit the Blazers up, hitting 2. Barry's 6. 4- point total was his career high and made him, at the time, only the third player to go over 6. Chamberlain had done it 1. Baylor twice), although three other players would reach the same level over the next two decades. But Barry had added another dangerous dimension to his game. When the Rick Barry of old got the ball in his hands, he would shoot it. The new Rick Barry was passing, too. He ranked among the NBA's top 1. He led the Warriors to the NBA title, averaged 3. Buffalo Braves' Bob Mc. Adoo), and led the league in free- throw percentage (. He also ranked sixth in the NBA in assists with 6. The rest of the squad was a collection of hardworking but unspectacular role players. Barry led the team to a 4. Coach Al Attles used a 1. The Warriors led the league in scoring, with 1. Barry led the squad in scoring, and Wilkes was No. Nine players logged more than 1,0. Because nobody had expected the Warriors to go so deep into the playoffs, the arena in Oakland had been booked for another event. The championship games were moved to the Cow Palace in San Francisco. During that era, Barry and Julius Erving were the yardsticks by which all forwards were measured. Barry was putting up some incredible numbers. The only member of an NBA championship team to have posted a higher scoring average was Kareem Abdul- Jabbar, who poured in 3. Milwaukee Bucks in 1. Those marks held up until Jordan hit 3. Chicago Bulls. He played the game with a look of mild disdain (sometimes not so mild) that suggested his surroundings were beneath him. He never held his tongue. He was an equal- opportunity critic: teammate, opponent, referee, coach, or bystander might be the object of his choler. Not surprisingly, teammates and opponents alike often resented his blunt criticism. The Detroit Pistons' Bill Laimbeer, for example, played rough, complained to referees and was booed by fans around the league in the 1. But that seemed, at least partly, to be an act. Rick Barry did all the same things, but for him they weren't theater, just a natural result of his single- minded desire to succeed. He finished third in the NBA MVP balloting, behind the winner, Mc. Adoo and Boston's Dave Cowens. With the Warriors' young players developing both skills and confidence, Barry shouldered less of the scoring burden. He averaged 2. 1. The next season he averaged 2. Golden State, despite a winning record, finished out of the playoffs in the resurgent Pacific Division. With the Rockets in 1. Houston had Moses Malone, Calvin Murphy and Rudy Tomjanovich to do the scoring, so Barry was used as a passing forward. He dished out a career- high 5. The next season his productivity dropped even further, to 1. He led the league in free- throw percentage in both seasons, at . Including his ABA years, Barry claimed eight free- throw percentage titles in the 1. Only Ernie Di. Gregorio, who bested him twice, stood between Barry and a solid decade of charity- stripe dominance. In 1. 4 seasons of professional basketball (1. NBA), he had played in more than 1,0. NBA games in a row until his final year. He averaged 2. 3. NBA and 3. 0. 5 points in his four ABA seasons. His combined scoring totaled 2. At the time of his retirement, Barry was the most accurate free- throw shooter in NBA history, having hit 9. After several seasons at the mic, he drifted out of the public spotlight in the mid- 1. Scooter Barry played for the University of Kansas and then in the Continental Basketball Association; Jon played for Georgia Tech and various NBA teams. Barry's second youngest son, Drew, played for Georgia Tech, and the youngest son, Brent, played at Oregon State and entered the NBA as the 1. Draft by the Denver Nuggets although his draft rights were traded to the Los Angeles Clippers. He began in the Global Basketball Association, then moved on to the CBA's Fort Wayne Fury, who went 1. United Nations News Centre. With just two months left in 2. Mediterranean, the number of people losing their lives has witnessed a three- fold overall increase this year, and in one particular route by more than five- fold, the United Nations refugee agency said today.
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