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Rich Kelley
Richard Ryland Kelley (born March 23, 1953) is an American retired basketball player. Kelley played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal and was the first-round pick (7th pick overall) of the New Orleans Jazz in the 1975 NBA draft. Kelley played eleven NBA seasons.
A center/power forward, a graduate of Woodside High School, Kelley played college basketball at Stanford University.
The 7-foot, 235-pound Kelley was drafted as an underclassman in the second round of the 1974 American Basketball Association ABA draft by the New York Nets, but he opted to stay in college for another year.
While in college, Kelley played for the Team USA in the 1974 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.
In in his 76 career games at Stanford, under Coach Howard Dallmar, Kelley averaged a double-double of 18.6 points and 12.4 rebounds, shooting 49% from the floor and 78% from the line. He scored 1412 total points, with 944 total rebounds in his three varsity seasons.
In 1975, Kelley was drafted by the New Orleans Jazz in the first round of the 1975 NBA draft and by the Memphis Sounds in the second round of the 1975 ABA Draft.
In the NBA Kelley played for the New Orleans/Utah Jazz (1975–79, 1983–85), New Jersey Nets (1979–80), Phoenix Suns (1980–82), Denver Nuggets (1982–83) and Sacramento Kings (1985–86). His best individual season was with the Jazz in 1978–79, in which he averaged 15.7 points and 12.8 rebounds per game (good for second in the league in rebounding that year), and also established a franchise record with 166 blocked shots.
He helped the Suns win the 1980–81 NBA Pacific Division and the Jazz win the 1983–84 NBA Midwest Division.
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Rich Kelley
Richard Ryland Kelley (born March 23, 1953) is an American retired basketball player. Kelley played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal and was the first-round pick (7th pick overall) of the New Orleans Jazz in the 1975 NBA draft. Kelley played eleven NBA seasons.
A center/power forward, a graduate of Woodside High School, Kelley played college basketball at Stanford University.
The 7-foot, 235-pound Kelley was drafted as an underclassman in the second round of the 1974 American Basketball Association ABA draft by the New York Nets, but he opted to stay in college for another year.
While in college, Kelley played for the Team USA in the 1974 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.
In in his 76 career games at Stanford, under Coach Howard Dallmar, Kelley averaged a double-double of 18.6 points and 12.4 rebounds, shooting 49% from the floor and 78% from the line. He scored 1412 total points, with 944 total rebounds in his three varsity seasons.
In 1975, Kelley was drafted by the New Orleans Jazz in the first round of the 1975 NBA draft and by the Memphis Sounds in the second round of the 1975 ABA Draft.
In the NBA Kelley played for the New Orleans/Utah Jazz (1975–79, 1983–85), New Jersey Nets (1979–80), Phoenix Suns (1980–82), Denver Nuggets (1982–83) and Sacramento Kings (1985–86). His best individual season was with the Jazz in 1978–79, in which he averaged 15.7 points and 12.8 rebounds per game (good for second in the league in rebounding that year), and also established a franchise record with 166 blocked shots.
He helped the Suns win the 1980–81 NBA Pacific Division and the Jazz win the 1983–84 NBA Midwest Division.