George Lehmann

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::summary American basketball player (1941–2024) ::

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Field	Value
name	George Lehmann
height_ft	6
height_in	3
weight_lb	180
birth_date
birth_place	Riverside Township, New Jersey, U.S.
death_date
highschool	Camden Catholic
(Camden, New Jersey)
college	Campbell (1959–1960)
draft_year	1963
career_start	1962
career_end	1974
career_number	20, 12, 32, 26, 21, 24
career_position	Point guard / shooting guard
years1	1962–1963
team1	Sunbury Mercuries
years2	1963–1964
team2	Allentown Jets
years3	1964–1967
team3	Trenton Colonials
years4	–
team4	St. Louis / Atlanta Hawks
years5	1968–1969
team5	Los Angeles Stars
years6	1969–1970
team6	New York Nets
years7	1970
team7	Miami Floridians
years8	1970–1972
team8	Carolina Cougars
years9	1972–1974
team9	Memphis Pros / Tams
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• All-EPBL Second Team (1967) George A. Lehmann (May 1, 1941 – November 8, 2024) was an American professional basketball player.

Lehmann played only one year of high school basketball as a freshman. He played basketball at Campbell Junior College (now Campbell University) during the 1959–60 season and was third in the nation in scoring amongst junior college players. He transferred to Wake Forest University and played on the freshman team during the 1960–61 season. In April 1961, Lehmann was expelled by Wake Forest for an honor code violation.

Lehmann started his professional career in the Eastern Professional Basketball League (EPBL) with the Sunbury Mercuries during the 1962–63 season. He was invited to training camp by the St. Louis Hawks in 1963 but declined to move because his family lived in Camden, New Jersey. He was traded to the Trenton Colonials in 1964, and then spent the following three seasons with the team.

Lehmann played in the NBA and ABA from 1967 to 1974 as a member of the St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Stars, New York Nets, Miami Floridians, Carolina Cougars, Memphis Pros, and Memphis Tams. He averaged 11.9 points per game and 4.5 assists per game in his professional career and holds the ABA's third best career three-point field goal percentage (.365). Lehmann was the first professional basketball player to make more than 40% of his three-point attempts in a season, which he did in 1970–71.

After retiring as a player, Lehmann hosted basketball clinics, worked for Pony Shoes, and owned a T-shirt business. His children, Nicole and Todd, played college basketball at North Carolina State University and Drexel University, respectively.

Lehmann died on November 8, 2024, at the age of 83.

Career statistics

NBA

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Regular season

References

1. (August 12, 1967). "George Lehmann Gets NBA Shot". Courier-Post.
2. (April 15, 1961). "Council Expels Wake Cage Star". Winston-Salem Journal.
3. (August 22, 1964). "Riverside, N.J. Gets 1st Pro". The Bristol Daily Courier.
4. (December 7, 1963). "Jets Entertain Miners Tonight; Buy Sunbury Backcourt Player". The Morning Call.
5. (December 24, 1964). "Revamped Trenton Test For Bullets on Sunday". Courier-Post.
6. "George Lehmann minor league basketball statistics".
7. "George Lehmann NBA/ABA Stats". Sports Reference LLC.
8. Bill Hass. "Roots of 3-pointer in wide open ABA". ''Greensboro News and Record''. 3 March 1991.
9. Bill Buchalter. "Shooting clinic free to basketball players". ''The Orlando Sentinel''. 15 October 1991.
10. Jeff White. "Hoop wizards stress need for discipline". ''Richmond Times-Dispatch''. 14 December 1988.
11. Leonard Laye. "Notable Cougars". ''The Charlotte Observer''. 19 March 2003.
12. Lou Misselhorn. "Catching up with ------Nicole Lehmann Tharrington". ''Burlington County Times''. 23 January 2005.
13. Ted Silary. "It's in the genes: Like his father, Lehmann is able to score from long range". ''Philadelphia Daily News''. 21 November 1989.
14. (November 2024). "George A. Lehmann".

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