Dave Minor Explained

Dave Minor
Birth Date:	1922 2, mf=yes
Birth Place:	Ruleville, Mississippi
Height Ft:	6
Height In:	2
Weight Lb:	185
High School:	Froebel (Gary, Indiana)
College:	Toledo (1942–1943) UCLA (1946–1948)
Career Start:	1951
Career End:	1953
Career Number:	10, 8
Career Position:	Point guard / shooting guard
Years1:	–
Team1:	Baltimore Bullets
Team2:	Milwaukee Hawks
Highlights:	Second-team All-American – SN (1943) 2× First-team All-PCC (1947, 1948)
Stat1label:	Points
Stat1value:	877 (7.6 ppg)
Stat2label:	Rebounds
Stat2value:	527 (4.5 rpg)
Stat3label:	Assists
Stat3value:	288 (2.5 apg)

Davage T. Minor (February 23, 1922 – March 14, 1998)^[1] was a player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).^[2] He played with the Baltimore Bullets before being traded along with Stan Miasek to the Milwaukee Hawks for Don Boven, Pete Darcey and George McLeod. He began his college career at Toledo, it was interrupted by World War II; following the war, he enrolled at UCLA. In 1947–1948, Minor was honored as an All-Conference guard basketball player at UCLA. His full name was Davage Minor, but Gary, Indiana sportswriters called him "The Wheelhorse of Steel City." He began shooting the first jumpers seen around the Great Lakes in December 1937 in his high school gym in Gary. By 1941, the shot was so unstoppable he used it to take the Froebel High School Blue Devils all the way to the Final Four of the Indiana state tournament, the "mother of them all." Eventually, he starred with the old Oakland Bittners of the AAU, and he was one of the first five African Americans signed in the NBA.^{[3] [4]} Minor died in 1998.^[5]

In December 2019, he was announced as a member of the 2020 Class in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.^[6]

Career statistics

NBA

Source^[1]

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	MPG	FG%	FT%	RPG	APG	PPG
	Baltimore	57	27.3	.354	.765	4.8	2.8	8.3
	Baltimore	19	15.8	.358	.769	2.2	1.2	4.6
	Milwaukee	40	32.7	.369	.736	5.3	2.6	8.0
Career		116	27.3	.360	.754	4.5	2.5	7.6

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dave Minor NBA stats. Basketball Reference. Sports Reference, LLC. August 5, 2023.
2. Book: Christgau, John . Origins of the Jump Shot: Eight Men Who Shook the World of Basketball . University of Nebraska Press . Lincoln . 1999 . 0-8032-6394-5 . The Wheelhorse of Steel City . 79–105 .
3. Web site: 59th Men's Induction Class announced - Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
4. Web site: John Christgau, award-winning author. John Christgau's works encompass nonfiction books, novels, poems and other writings. His subjects range from World War II era stories to basketball to horseracing. He has appeared around the country to give lectures, and has done numerous interviews and readings from his books . November 3, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014220546/http://johnchristgau.com/originsofthejumpshot/originsofthejumpshot.html . October 14, 2013 . dead .
5. http://www.apbr.org/deceased.html Known deceased basketball individuals
6. Web site: 59th Men's Induction Class announced - Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.