Paul Arizin
Paul Arizin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on April 9th, 1928 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 78, Paul Arizin biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Paul Joseph Arizin (April 9, 1928 – December 12, 2006), nicknamed "Pitchin' Paul", was an American basketball player who spent his entire National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Philadelphia Warriors from 1950 to 1962.
He retired with the third highest career point total (16,266) in NBA history, and was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History upon its 50th anniversary in 1996.
He was a high-scoring forward at Villanova University before being drafted by the Warriors of the fledgling NBA.
Professional career
Arizin's rookie season was his best player in the NBA draft in 1950, a distinction that was not yet banned by the NBA for the 1950–51 season. He was one of the best NBA players of the 1950s, he was the best in scoring during the 1951–52 and 1956–57 seasons while also leading in field goal percentage in 1951–52. While serving in the Marines during the Korean War, Arizin missed the 1952–53 and 1953–54 NBA seasons.
Arizin became known for his line-drive jump shots and partnered with center Neil Johnston to produce the best offensive one-two punch in the NBA at the time, leading the Warriors to the 1956 NBA championship. He began his playing with scoring star Joe Fulks early in his career, and with Philadelphia legends Tom Gola and Wilt Chamberlain toward the end of his career in the early 1960s. Rather than moving with the Warriors to San Francisco, Arizin decided to retire from the NBA rather than moving with the Warriors. No player had retired from the game with a higher scoring average (21.9 points per game) in his last season at the time of his retirement. This record will stand until Bob Pettit's retirement in 1965 after a season in which he averaged 22.5 PPG.
Arizin was involved in a total of ten NBA All-Star Games (he was the 1952 NBA All-Star Game MVP) and was selected to the All-NBA First-Team in 1952, 1956, and 1957.
Arizin played for three seasons with the Camden Bullets of the Eastern Professional Basketball League, winning the 1964 championship after being out of the NBA. In 1963, he was named in the EBL All-Star First Team in 1963 and 1964, then to the EBL All-Star Second Team in 1965, averaging more than 20 points per game.
In 1971, Arizin was named to the NBA 25th Anniversary Team. In 1978, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and in 1996, he was selected to the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Arizin was named as one of the league's top players of all time in October 2021, where he was named to the NBA's 75th Anniversary Team. In 2004, he was inducted into the inaugural class of the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame. Arizin died in his sleep on December 12, 2006 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, at the age of 78.