Bob Greacen

{{short description|American basketball player}}

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{{About|the American basketballer|the Irish poet|Robert Greacen}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Bob Greacen

| image =

| width =

| caption =

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 7

| weight_lb = 206

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|09|15}}

| birth_place = Merchantville, New Jersey

| nationality = American

| high_school = Merchantville
(Merchantville, New Jersey)

| college = Rutgers (1966–1969)

| draft_year = 1969

| draft_round = 2

| draft_pick = 17

| draft_team = Milwaukee Bucks

| career_start = 1969

| career_end = 1972; 1979–1980

| career_number = 18, 14

| career_position = Small forward

| years1 = {{nbay|1969|start}}–{{nbay|1970|end}}

| team1 = Milwaukee Bucks

| years2 = 1971

| team2 = New York Nets

| years3 = 1971–1972

| team3 = Trenton Pat Pavers

| years4 = 1979–1980

| team4 = Lehigh Valley Jets

| highlights =

• NBA champion (1971)

}}

Robert Alexander Greacen (born September 15, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player.

He grew up in South New Jersey, where he played high school basketball for Merchantville High School and helped lead Merchantville to the NJSIAA Group II state championship in 1965.Williams, Andre. [https://www.mcall.com/1998/03/20/at-50-ex-buck-greacen-is-still-a-gym-rat/ "At 50, Ex-buck Greacen Is Still A Gym Rat"], The Morning Call, March 20, 1998. Accessed December 24, 2015. "'I was a typical suburban kid,' said the 50-year-old Greacen, who grew up in South New Jersey and attended the now-defunct Merchantville High."

In Greacen's three varsity seasons with Rutgers University, he scored 1,154 points. As a sophomore in 1967 he teamed with fellow Rutgers Hall of Famers Bob Lloyd and Jim Valvano to lead the team to a 22–7 record and the first-ever post-season appearance in Rutgers' basketball history. The Scarlet Knights finished third in the 1967 NIT.

A 6'7" forward, Greacen was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round of the 1969 NBA draft and by the Miami Floridians in the 1969 ABA draft.

Greacen played two seasons (1969–1971) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks. He averaged 2.6 points per game in his career and was a member of the Bucks NBA championship team in 1971.

He later briefly played for the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association.

Greacen played in the Eastern Basketball Association (EBA) for the Trenton Pat Pavers during the 1971–72 season.{{cite web |title=Bob Greacen minor league basketball statistics |url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbasketball/stats/p-greacbob001 |website=Stats Crew |access-date=February 12, 2025}} He also played in the renamed Continental Basketball Association (CBA) for the Lehigh Valley Jets during the 1979–80 season.

He was a history teacher at Parkland High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he retired in 2009.