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Don Ray (basketball)

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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Don Ray

Weight
  
86 kg

Listed height
  
6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)

Role
  
Basketball Player

Date drafted
  
1948

Listed weight
  
190 lb (86 kg)

Died
  
November 23, 1998

Position
  
Center, Power forward

Number
  
96

Height
  
1.96 m


Don Ray (basketball)

Born
  
July 8, 1921 Mount Juliet, Tennessee (
1921-07-08
)

College
  
Western Kentucky (1942–1943, 1946–1948)

NBA draft
  
1948 / Round: 1 / Pick: 11th overall

School
  
Western Kentucky University

Donald L. Ray (July 8, 1921 – November 23, 1998) was a National Basketball Association (NBA) player. As a senior at Western Kentucky University, Ray was selected to the All-American second team by the Helms Foundation. Ray was drafted with the eleventh overall pick in the 1948 BAA Draft by the Philadelphia Warriors. He made his NBA debut in the 1949-50 NBA season for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. In sixty-one games for the Blackhawks, Ray averaged 6.0 points and 1.0 assist per game.

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