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Curtis Rowe
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Rowe in his senior year at UCLA
Personal information
Born (1949-07-02) July 2, 1949 (age 75)
Bessemer, Alabama, U.S.
High school John C. Fremont
(Los Angeles, California)
Listed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight 225 lb (102 kg)
Career information
College UCLA (1968–1971)
NBA Draft 1971 / Round: 1 / Pick: 11th overall
Selected by the Detroit Pistons
Pro career 1971–1979
Career history
1971–1976 Detroit Pistons
1976–1979 Boston Celtics
Career highlights and awards
  • NBA All-Star (1976)
  • 3× NCAA champion (1969–1971)
  • Consensus second-team All-American (1971)
  • 2× First-team All-Pac-8 (1969, 1971)
  • Second-team All-Pac-8 (1970)
Career NBA statistics
Points 6,873 (11.6 ppg)
Rebounds 4,264 (7.2 rpg)
Assists 932 (1.6 apg)

Curtis Rowe Jr. (born July 2, 1949) is an American former basketball player.

A 6'7" forward from UCLA, Rowe was drafted by the Dallas Chaparrals in the 1971 ABA Draft and by the Detroit Pistons in the first round of the 1971 NBA draft. Rowe opted to sign with Detroit and the NBA.

Rowe played eight seasons (1971–1979) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Detroit Pistons and the Boston Celtics. He averaged 11.6 points per game in his career and appeared in the 1976 NBA All-Star Game.

At UCLA, he was a member of three national championship teams coached by John Wooden: 1969, 1970 and 1971. He was one of only 4 players to have started on 3 NCAA championship teams; the others were all teammates at UCLA: Lew Alcindor, Henry Bibby and Lynn Shackelford.

In 1993, Rowe was inducted to the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

NBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

Regular season

Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG STL BLK PPG
1971–72 Detroit 82 32.5 .460 .669 8.5 1.2 11.3
1972–73 Detroit 81 37.1 .519 .642 9.4 2.1 16.1
1973–74 Detroit 82 30.5 .494 .698 6.3 1.7 .6 .4 10.7
1974–75 Detroit 82 34.0 .483 .753 7.1 1.5 .6 .5 12.4
1975–76 Detroit 80 37.5 .468 .737 8.7 2.3 .6 .6 16.0
1976–77 Boston 79 27.7 .498 .708 7.1 1.4 .3 .6 10.1
1977–78 Boston 51 17.9 .451 .742 4.0 .9 .3 .2 6.1
1978–79 Boston 53 23.1 .436 .693 4.6 1.3 .3 .2 6.7
Career 590 31.0 .482 .701 7.2 1.6 .5 .5 11.6
All-Star 1 8.0 .000 .500 2.0 .0 1.0

Playoffs

Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG STL BLK PPG
1974 Detroit 7 32.7 .481 .615 7.4 1.6 .4 .9 8.3
1975 Detroit 3 38.3 .515 .526 8.7 5.0 .3 1.7 14.7
1976 Detroit 9 38.4 .477 .853 7.8 2.9 .7 .9 15.0
1977 Boston 9 26.3 .471 .759 8.0 1.1 .1 .4 9.6
Career 28 33.1 .481 .726 7.9 2.2 .4 .8 11.5

Personal life

Curtis Rowe is the father of comedian Cameron Rowe.

See also

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