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John Johnson (basketball)

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Nationality
  
American

Position
  
Small forward

Weight
  
91 kg

Pro career
  
1970–1982

Height
  
2.01 m

Listed weight
  
200 lb (91 kg)

Role
  
Basketball Player

Listed height
  
6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)

Name
  
John Johnson


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Born
  
October 18, 1947 Carthage, Mississippi (
1947-10-18
)

NBA draft
  
1970 / Round: 1 / Pick: 7th overall

Died
  
January 7, 2016, San Jose, California, United States

Children
  
Mitch Johnson, Jeremy Johnson

Books
  
Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music, and the Most Famous Dance Club of the '60s

Education
  
Messmer High School, University of Iowa, Northwest College

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John Howard Getty "J. J." Johnson (October 18, 1947 – January 7, 2016) was an American basketball player.

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High school and college

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Johnson played high school basketball at Messmer High School, (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). As a senior, he helped lead Messmer to the Wisconsin state title in 1966.

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Johnson, a 6’7” small forward, then played for Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming and for the University of Iowa. He set an Iowa record for points in a season during his senior year, when he averaged 27.9 points per game. Johnson also holds Iowa's top two scoring performances with 49 and 46 points. Johnson played two seasons for Iowa, leading the team in scoring and rebounding both seasons. Johnson, accompanied by later Seattle Sonics teammate Fred Brown, guided Iowa to a 14-0 Big Ten record and NCAA tournament berth in 1970.

NBA career

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Johnson was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the 7th pick of the 1970 NBA Draft. Johnson was also selected in the 1970 ABA Draft by the Texas Chaparrals. He was the Cavalier's first player to play in an NBA All Star Game.

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In 1977, Johnson was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics and was reunited with former Iowa Hawkeye teammate Fred Brown. Johnson was a key contributor for Seattle, who went to the NBA Finals in 1977–78 and won an NBA championship in 1978–79.

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Overall, Johnson had a productive twelve-year NBA career with four teams, making two NBA All-Star Game appearances and scoring 11,200 career points. He ended his NBA career in Seattle in the early 1980s.

Later years

Johnson moved from Seattle to San Jose when his son Mitch was recruited to play for Stanford. His son played on the Stanford University basketball team from 2005 to 2008. On January 7, 2016, at age 68, John Johnson died in his San Jose residence of undetermined cause.

References

John Johnson (basketball) Wikipedia