Norman Clifford "Norm" Mager ( Eng. Norman Clifford "Norm" Mager , March 23, 1926 - March 17, 2005) is an American professional basketball player . During his professional career, he played just one 1950/51 season at the National Basketball Association for the Baltimore Bullits club. Mager was one of the key players in the New York City College basketball team GKNY Beavers , who won two postseasonal tournaments in 1950 for the first time in student basketball in 1950 - the National Invitational Tournament and the NCAA Tournament .
| Norm Mager | |
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| Finished his career | |
| Position | forward |
| Nicknames | Splinter |
| Growth | 196 cm |
| Weight | 84 kg |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Date of Birth | March 23, 1926 |
| Place of Birth | New York , NY |
| Date of death | March 17, 2005 (78 years old) |
| Place of death | Boynton Beach Florida |
| School | Lafayette ( Brooklyn , New York ) |
| College | GKNY (1947-1950) |
| NBA draft | 49th (5th round), 1950 , Baltimore Bullits |
| Statistics | |
| Games | 24 |
| Glasses | 124 ( 5.2 average per game) |
| Rebounds | 47 ( 2 on average per game) |
| Gears | 23 ( 1 average per game) |
Mager studied at Lafayette High School in Brooklyn and at the end of his studies entered the University of St. Johns . When the Second World War began, he was drafted into the army and he served in the US Air Force for two and a half years. After the war ended, he entered City College because he would have to wait six months to return back to St. John’s [1] . In the championship season of 1949/50, he averaged 3.6 points per game, but in the NCAA tournament he scored 12.6 points and was included in the team of all the stars of the Eastern region by the end of the season. In the NIT tournament, his performance was not so impressive - on average he scored 4.7 points per game [2] .
In 1950, he was selected by the NBA draft in the fifth round of the club "Baltimore Bullits." For “Bullits” Mager managed to play only 24 games, gaining an average of 5.2 points and making 2 rebounds per game. However, a scandal soon erupted when it turned out that some City College players were associated with bookmakers and influenced the final score of fights in such a way that their team lost with a certain gap. Mager, like other members of the City College basketball team, received a life-long ban on playing in the NBA [3] .
Mager later worked in a managerial position at a cleaning company, retiring in 2000. On March 17, 2005, Norm died of cancer in Boynton Beach , Florida .
Notes
- ↑ Cohen, Stanley. The Game They Played. - Carroll & Graf , 1977 .-- S. 43 .-- 246 p. - ISBN 0-7867-0821-2 .
- ↑ Mager, Norm , accessed July 29, 2011
- ↑ Richard Goldstein . Norman Mager, 78, Player Tarnished by Gambling Scandal, Dies (March 23, 2005). Date of treatment July 29, 2011.