Louis Clyde Hudson was an American National Basketball Association player, who was an All-American at the University of Minnesota and a six-time NBA All-Star, scoring 17,940 total points in 13 NBA seasons.
25 Facts About Lou Hudson
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Lou Hudson could do everything, and he could do everything well.
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Lou Hudson was the one guy who was instrumental in my pursuing athletics.
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Lou Hudson became part of the first black recruiting class at Minnesota, as he, Archie Clark and Don Yates enrolled at the University of Minnesota in 1964.
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Lou Hudson had been recruited by North Carolina and Coach Dean Smith.
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Lou Hudson was named an All-American and First Team All-Big Ten.
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Lou Hudson did this while shooting left-handed with his right hand in a cast.
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Lou Hudson had earlier averaged 26.3 points in the 3 game playoff series sweep of the Chicago Bulls.
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Lou Hudson has the distinction of scoring the first-ever basket for the Atlanta Hawks, playing at Alexander Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta.
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Lou Hudson averaged 22.8 points in the Rockets series and 21.0 points 5.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists in the Lakers series.
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Lou Hudson averaged 26.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists in the Bulls series win.
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Lou Hudson averaged a career high 27.1 points, along with 6.2 rebounds and 3,2 assists, playing alongside Maravich in the back-court with his averages of 26.1 points 4.4 rebounds and 6.9 assists.
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Lou Hudson was outstanding in the series, averaging 29.7 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists.
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Lou Hudson missed 17 games due to injury and made his sixth consecutive All-Star Team.
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On September 30,1977, Lou Hudson was traded by the Atlanta Hawks to the Los Angeles Lakers for Ollie Johnson.
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Over his final two seasons, with the Lakers, Lou Hudson averaged 11.8 points, 2.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists, playing under Coach Jerry West and alongside Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Adrian Dantley and Jamaal Wilkes, as well as Norm Nixon, Ron Boone and a young Michael Cooper.
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Lou Hudson averaged 20.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.4 steals per game in 890 games.
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Lou Hudson was the 12th all-time leading scorer in NBA History at the time of his retirement.
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Lou Hudson was an even better performer in the NBA playoffs.
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Lou Hudson averaged 21.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 61 career playoff games.
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Lou Hudson appeared in the basketball movie The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh in 1979.
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In 1984, Lou Hudson relocated to Park City, Utah, where he became a real estate investor and served on the Park City city council in the early 1990s.
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Lou Hudson created a recreation basketball league where he served as coach for 20 years, before suffering a major stroke on a Park City ski slope in February 2005.
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Lou Hudson made public appearances as an "ambassador" for the "Power to End Stroke" organization.
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Lou Hudson was one of the best guards, and that's a fact.