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Gar Heard
Personal information
Born
(1948-05-03) May 3, 1948 (age 75) Hogansville, Georgia, U.S.
Listed height
6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight
219 lb (99 kg)
Career information
High school
Ethel Knight (LaGrange, Georgia)
College
Oklahoma (1967–1970)
NBA draft
1970: 3rd round, 40th overall pick
Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics
Playing career
1970–1981
Position
Power forward
Number
40, 24
Career history
As player:
1970–1972
Seattle SuperSonics
1972–1973
Chicago Bulls
1973–1976
Buffalo Braves
1976–1980
Phoenix Suns
1980–1981
San Diego Clippers
As coach:
1987–1993
Dallas Mavericks (assistant)
1992–1993
Dallas Mavericks (interim)
1993–1997
Indiana Pacers (assistant)
1997–1998
Philadelphia 76ers (assistant)
1998–1999
Detroit Pistons (assistant)
1999–2000
Washington Wizards
2000–2001
Atlanta Hawks (assistant)
2004–2005
Detroit Pistons (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
First-team All-Big Eight (1970)
Career NBA statistics
Points
6,828 (8.7 ppg)
Rebounds
5,876 (7.5 rpg)
Assists
1,220 (1.6 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Garfield Heard (born May 3, 1948) is an American retired professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiately at the University of Oklahoma and was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the third round of the 1970 NBA draft. He had a 15-year NBA career for four teams (the Sonics, the Buffalo Braves/San Diego Clippers, the Chicago Bulls, and the Phoenix Suns). Heard is best known for a buzzer beater he made to send Game 5 of the 1976 Phoenix–Boston championship series into a third overtime. This feat is commonly known as "The Cow", or "The Shot Heard 'Round the World", in reference to Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Concord Hymn", which was written about the Battle of Lexington.[citation needed]
Interactive). Archived from the original on 2009-06-19. Retrieved 2009-02-15. "GarHeard". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2010-03-27. "Denver's Mark Warkentien...
make the technical free throw which put the Celtics up by 2, and then GarHeard hit the game-tying buzzer-beater to force the third OT. This was the first...
players drafted also went on to have coaching careers in the NBA: 40th pick GarHeard and 125th pick George Irvine. The 1970 draft class is considered to be...
led the team for a season and a half. In 2000, he replaced the fired GarHeard in Washington for half a season (the first coaching "call-up" in history...
by Jo Jo White. However, Phoenix still had one final possession, and GarHeard scored for Phoenix to tie the game. The Celtics went on to win in triple...
7 if security couldn't maintain control. When play resumed, Phoenix's GarHeard took the inbounds pass from Perry and made a buzzer-beating shot (a turn-around...
Clippers game which conflicts with a Los Angeles Dodgers game on KLAC will be heard instead on KEIB (1150 AM) "History: Team by Team" (PDF). 2018–19 Official...
Mavericks started 2–27 and fired Adubato on January 13, replacing him with GarHeard. The Mavericks came dangerously close to setting the all-time worst record...
playoffs, all-time 462 by Chris Paul Most blocks in a playoff game 6 by GarHeard in Game 6 of the 1974 Eastern Conference Semifinals vs the Boston Celtics...
fans, as their team was down three games to one against the Bullets. Motta heard the broadcast and adopted his own rendition of the expression — "The 'opera'...
the lead to two, it gave the Suns possession at halfcourt, and enabled GarHeard to sink an 18-footer as time expired to force a third overtime. NBA rules...
a Sonics' Player with one second left. The Suns had one last chance, GarHeard's Potential game winning shot was an airball, meaning the SuperSonics forced...
Coaches Head coach Larry Brown Assistant coach(es) Phil Ford Dave Hanners GarHeard Igor Kokoškov Pat Sullivan Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Unsigned draft...
rebounds. The Wizards endured a 14–30 start under head coach GarHeard before going 15–23 under Heard's replacement, Darrell Walker. According to Sam Smith from...
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