Bob Hopkins Basketball player

Robert M. "Bob" Hopkins (born November 3, 1934) is an American former basketball player and coach. He played college basketball at Grambling State University, where he scored 3,759 points (averaging 29.8 points per game for his career), and then played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for four seasons with the Syracuse Nationals. He later coached the Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA during part of the 1977–78 season, posting a 5–17 record before being fired midseason. He was replaced by Lenny Wilkens, who led the Sonics to the NBA Finals that season and the following, winning the NBA championship in 1979.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)Hopkins Robert M.
Birth dateNovember 03, 1934
Birth place
Jonesboro-Hodge High School , Jonesboro Louisiana
Height (meters)2.032
Weight (Kilograms)92.988

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Basketball player

Career start1956
career end1962
college
Grambling State Tigers men's basketball
draft team
Philadelphia 76ers
draft year1956
position
Power forward (basketball)
Center (basketball)

Bob Hopkins on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/hopkibo01c.html
  2. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hopkibo01.html