December 12, 2020(2020-12-12) (aged 68) Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Nationality
American
Listed height
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight
170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High school
Hopkinsville (Hopkinsville, Kentucky)
College
Pepperdine (1971–1973)
NBA draft
1973: 4th round, 55th overall pick
Selected by the Portland Trail Blazers
Playing career
1973–1978
Position
Shooting guard
Number
10, 14, 15
Career history
1973–1974
San Antonio Spurs
1974–1976
Kentucky Colonels
1976–1977
Buffalo Braves
1977
New Jersey Nets
1978
Buffalo Braves
1979
Rochester Zeniths
Career highlights and awards
ABA champion (1975)
WCAC Player of the Year (1973)
First-team All-WCAC (1973)
Second-team All-WCAC (1972)
NCAA season scoring leader (1973)
Career ABA/NBA statistics
Points
4,434 (12.1 ppg)
Rebounds
680 (1.9 rpg)
Assists
1,078 (2.9 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
William Rodney "Bird" Averitt (July 22, 1952 – December 12, 2020) was an American professional basketball player in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). He won an ABA championship with the Kentucky Colonels in 1975.
Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, he played college basketball for the Pepperdine Waves and was named the conference player of the year in the West Coast Conference. He was selected in the fourth round of the 1973 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers and the second round of the 1973 ABA Draft by the San Diego Conquistadors.[1]
He played for the San Antonio Spurs (1973–74) and Kentucky Colonels (1974–76) in the ABA for 236 games, winning the 1975 ABA championship with the Colonels. After the Colonels were disbanded as part of the ABA–NBA merger, Averitt joined the Buffalo Braves through the 1976 ABA dispersal draft, playing with that team for the 1976–77 season until joining the New Jersey Nets for the 1977–78 season, playing 130 games in the NBA with those two teams.
Averitt died at age 68 on December 12, 2020.[2]
^Bird Averitt page at DatabaseBasketball.com Archived 2011-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
^"William 'Bird' Averitt, member of Kentucky Colonels ABA title team, dies". WDRB.com. December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
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