In 1996,17 years after his retirement from professional basketball, Goodrich was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
20 Facts About Gail Goodrich
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Gail Goodrich scored 29 points in the championship game despite breaking his ankle in the third quarter.
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Gail Goodrich has said that he had originally wanted to attend the University of Southern California, where his father had once been a star player.
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Gail Goodrich attended UCLA, where he finished as the school's all-time leading scorer and played on the school's first two national championship teams in 1964 and 1965.
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Gail Goodrich was a two-time All-American and the Helms Foundation's "Co-Player of the Year" in 1965.
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In both of those championship seasons, Gail Goodrich was named to the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament team.
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Gail Goodrich was nicknamed "Stumpy", a moniker bestowed upon him by teammate Elgin Baylor, because of Gail Goodrich's height and short legs.
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Gail Goodrich was a territorial pick by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1965 NBA draft.
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Gail Goodrich posted averages of 7.8 points per game, 2.0 rebounds per game and 1.6 assists per game.
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Gail Goodrich posted averages of 12.4 ppg, 3.3 rpg and 2.7 apg.
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Gail Goodrich was selected to play in the 1969 NBA All-Star Game.
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Gail Goodrich, playing all 82 games, averaged a career-high 25.9 ppg, including 28 games of 30 points or more, to go with 3.6 rpg and 4.5 apg.
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The Lakers advanced to the NBA Finals, where they dismantled the New York Knicks in five games to win the NBA championship as Gail Goodrich averaged a series-leading 25.6 ppg.
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On March 28,1975, for the first time in his career, Gail Goodrich topped 50 points in a game with 53 against the Kansas City-Omaha Kings.
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Gail Goodrich held out in the fall of 1975 and missed the first four games while playing out his option to become a free agent the following season.
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Gail Goodrich had played a similar role in Phoenix, but during his time with Jerry West, Gail Goodrich was the shooting guard.
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Gail Goodrich is still the third all-time scorer among lefties in NBA history.
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At the time of his retirement in 1979, Gail Goodrich was 11th all-time in scoring and 10th all-time in assists.
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Gail Goodrich became an executive with a golf course management company, American Golf Corporation in Santa Monica, California.
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Gail Goodrich sold his interest in Forsgate in 1999 and retired from the golf industry.