Listed height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Name Dave Minor Weight 84 kg Number 10, 8 Height 1.88 m | Pro career 1951–1953 Died March 14, 1998 Listed weight 185 lb (84 kg) Role Basketball Player | |
Born February 23, 1922
Missouri ( 1922-02-23 ) High school Froebel (Gary, Indiana) College Toledo (1942–1943)
UCLA (1946–1948) Education University of California, Los Angeles Position Point guard, Shooting guard | ||
Davage "Dave" Minor (February 23, 1922 – March 14, 1998) was a player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). 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 blacks signed in the NBA. Minor died in 1998.