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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Keith Erickson

Date drafted
  
1965

College
  
UCLA (1962–1965)

Weight
  
88 kg


Listed weight
  
195 lb (88 kg)

Height
  
1.96 m

Listed height
  
6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)

Role
  
Basketball Player

Books
  
Champions Again!

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Born
  
April 19, 1944 (age 79) San Francisco, California (
1944-04-19
)

High school
  
El Segundo (El Segundo, California)

NBA draft
  
1965 / Round: 3 / Pick: 18th overall

School
  
University of California, Los Angeles

Position
  
Small forward, Shooting guard

2016 Pac-12 Hall of Honor inductee: UCLA's Keith Erickson


Keith Raymond Erickson (born April 19, 1944) is an American former basketball player.

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After graduating from El Segundo High School (California), attended El Camino College. Erickson then played basketball at UCLA, where he was a member of the 1964 and 1965 NCAA Champion teams. Erickson, who attended UCLA on a shared baseball/basketball scholarship, also played on the 1964 US Men's Olympic Volleyball team. Coach John Wooden would later remark that Erickson was the finest athlete he ever coached.

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In 1965, he was selected by the San Francisco Warriors in the third round of the NBA draft. Erickson played for the Warriors, Chicago Bulls, the 1972 NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers, and Phoenix Suns.

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Erickson retired in 1977 with 7,251 points and 3,449 rebounds. He later served as color commentator for the Los Angeles Lakers with Chick Hearn, the Los Angeles Clippers, and The NBA on CBS. He was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 1986 and will be inducted into the Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Hall of Honor during the 2016 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament.

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References

Keith Erickson Wikipedia