Josh Maravich, the son of the Hall of Famer “Pistol” Pete, died final week. He was 42.
Josh, like his father, performed basketball at LSU – he did not fairly have his father’s stardom, enjoying in solely 13 video games.
However, it was a childhood dream for him to play on the enviornment that bears his father’s identify.
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“I needed to come back right here for my dad to make him proud,” Josh mentioned in a 2005 article within the LSU faculty paper, The Daily Reveille, per the university’s site. “I knew I wasn’t going to be a star participant, however for me being a walk-on was what I all the time needed to do.”
The faculty mentioned he died in his household’s house in Covington, Louisiana.
Pistol Pete was again within the information earlier this yr, as Caitlin Clark surpassed his NCAA document for essentially the most factors ever scored by a school basketball participant.
Senior Josh Maravich shakes palms with coach John Brady as his mom, Jackie Maravich watches throughout Senior Day occasions earlier than LSU’s recreation in opposition to Vanderbilt on March 5, 2005, on the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Bill Feig, File)
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In his three years in Baton Rouge, Pistol Pete scored 3,667 factors – Clark surpassed him by 284.
He was the third total decide within the 1970 NBA Draft to the Atlanta Hawks, and he was a five-time NBA All-Star.
Pete retired after the 1979-1980 season, however post-retirement life was brief – he died in 1988 on the age of 40 attributable to a coronary heart situation that went undetected. No reason behind loss of life has been given for Josh.
Josh was simply 5 years outdated when his father died.
Josh is survived by his mom, Jackie, stepfather James, and older brother Jaeson.
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The Maravich brothers had been each concerned within the statue ceremony for his or her father, developing with the concept he ought to be proven with a classic behind-the-back go.
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