Clyde LovelletteLos Angeles Lakers · #34
Clyde Lovellette is a retired center and Basketball Hall of Famer, most associated with the Los Angeles Lakers. A scoring big who won across three teams. Career averages: 17 points, 9.5 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game.
Clyde Lovellette — the report card
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Where Clyde Lovellette stands
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Clyde Lovellette — every number, three levels deep
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Clyde Lovellette career stats, season by season
| Season | GP | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% | 3P% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-54 CHIP | 72 | 17.4 | 8.2 | 5.8 | 0.7 | .423 | |
| 1954-55 | 70 | 33.7 | 18.7 | 11.5 | 1.4 | .435 | |
| 1955-56 | 71 | 35.5 | 21.5 | 14.0 | 2.3 | .434 | |
| 1956-57 | 69 | 36.1 | 20.8 | 13.5 | 2.0 | .426 | |
| 1957-58 | 71 | 36.5 | 23.4 | 12.1 | 1.9 | .441 | |
| 1958-59 | 70 | 22.8 | 14.4 | 8.6 | 1.3 | .454 | |
| 1959-60 | 68 | 28.7 | 20.8 | 10.6 | 1.9 | .468 | |
| 1960-61 | 67 | 31.5 | 22.0 | 10.1 | 2.6 | .453 | |
| 1961-62 | 40 | 29.8 | 20.9 | 8.8 | 1.7 | .471 | |
| 1962-63 CHIP | 61 | 9.3 | 6.5 | 2.9 | 0.4 | .428 | |
| 1963-64 CHIP | 45 | 9.7 | 6.7 | 2.8 | 0.5 | .420 | |
| Career | 704 | 27.1 | 17.0 | 9.5 | 1.6 |
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Are the Los Angeles Lakers built to win?
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The Ballad of Clyde Lovellette
Birth to now — the making of a legend, narrated and scored.
Turning pro
Drafted 1952 as a Center.
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In 1952 Clyde Lovellette led the nation in scoring and won the national championship in the same season — a feat no one had managed before. Two years later he was a champion again, this time in a Minneapolis Lakers uniform.
Chapter
He was a scoring big man in an era that hadn't quite figured out what to do with one — a 6-foot-9 center with a soft touch who won the 1954 title alongside George Mikan, the game's original giant, before the franchise ever saw palm trees.
Chapter
His rings came in two different uniforms — a rare traveling man who kept finding the winning side, riding Bill Russell's Celtics to two more titles after his Lakers crown. Wherever he went, banners followed. That is the whole legend: Clyde Lovellette simply won, everywhere he stood.
Where things stand
A Hall of Fame center and Los Angeles Lakers name.
Off the court
- Height
- 6' 9"
- Weight
- 243 lbs
- College
- Kansas
- NBA debut
- 1952
- Draft
- 1952
- Jersey
- #34
A scoring big who won across three teams.
A Hall of Fame center and Los Angeles Lakers name.
Clyde Lovellette — frequently asked
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