Bob Houbregs

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Bob Houbregs

| image = Bob Houbregs.jpg

| width =

| caption =

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 7

| weight_lb = 210

| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|03|12}}

| birth_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|5|28|1932|3|12}}

| death_place = Olympia, Washington, U.S.

| high_school = Queen Anne
(Seattle, Washington)

| college = Washington (1950–1953)

| draft_year = 1953

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 2

| draft_team = Milwaukee Hawks

| career_number = 10, 14, 20, 8, 17

| career_position = Power forward / centre

| career_start = 1953

| career_end = 1958

| years1 = {{nbay|1953|start}}

| team1 = Milwaukee Hawks

| years2 = {{nbay|1953|start}}–{{nbay|1954|start}}

| team2 = Baltimore Bullets

| years3 = {{nbay|1954|start}}

| team3 = Boston Celtics

| years4 = {{nbay|1954|start}}–{{nbay|1957|end}}

| team4 = Fort Wayne / Detroit Pistons

| highlights =

Helms Foundation Player of the Year (1953)
Consensus first-team All-American (1953)
Consensus second-team All-American (1952)
3× First-team All-PCC (1951–1953)
No. 25 retired by Washington Huskies

| stat1label = Points

| stat1value = 2,611 (9.3 ppg)

| stat2label = Rebounds

| stat2value = 1,552 (5.5 rpg)

| stat3label = Assists

| stat3value = 500 (1.8 apg)

| HOF_player = bobby-houbregs

| CBBASKHOF_year = 2006

}}

Robert J. Houbregs (March 12, 1932 – May 28, 2014) was a Canadian professional basketball player. Houbregs was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987.

Basketball career

A 6-foot 8-inch, 225-pound forward-centre, from Queen Anne High School in Seattle, Washington, Houbregs played for the University of Washington Huskies from 1949 to 1953 (his family moved to Seattle from Vancouver, British Columbia when he was a child{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDO3sdV6ytsC&dq=bob+houbregs+vancouver+washington&pg=PA217|title=Basketball: A Biographical Dictionary|first=David L.|last=Porter|date=January 21, 2005|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313309526|via=Google Books}}). In 1952, Houbregs was a Second Team Consensus All-America selection. In 1953, as a senior, he was named NCAA Player of the Year, was a Consensus All-America selection, helped lead the 1952–53 Huskies to the Final Four in the NCAA tournament, and was named to the All-Tournament team after averaging 34.8 points per game in the post-season. He became the first player to score 40 or more points in an NCAA tournament Final Four game when he scored 42 against LSU in the national third-place game on March 18, 1953.{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/2010/Rules.pdf |title=Playing Rules History |author= |date= |website=ncaa.org |publisher=NCAA |access-date=June 25, 2024 |page=11}}

Houbregs was drafted by the NBA's Milwaukee Hawks with the second overall pick in 1953 and played five seasons (1953–1958) in the NBA with four teams: the Hawks, the Baltimore Bullets, the Boston Celtics, and the Fort Wayne (later Detroit) Pistons. Houbregs' career scoring average was 9.3 points per game.

Houbregs served as general manager of the Seattle SuperSonics from 1970 to 1973.{{citation |last=Allen |first=Percy |title=Bob Houbregs, Husky basketball icon, dies at 82 | newspaper=The Seattle Times |date=May 28, 2014 |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/huskybasketball/2023717442_houbregsobit29xml.html}}

Personal life

Houbregs' father John was a minor league ice hockey player who moved to Seattle in 1934/35 with his family in order to play for the Seattle Sea Hawks of the North West Hockey League.{{Cite web|url=http://www.historylink.org/file/20896|title=Houbregs, Bob (1932-2014)|website=www.historylink.org}} Houbregs was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.{{cite web| title=Basketball Hall of Fame Greeks| url=http://www.nicindy.org/whos_greek/greeks_in_sports/basketball/BasketballHOF.htm| date=2008-01-06| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211133541/http://www.nicindy.org/whos_greek/greeks_in_sports/basketball/BasketballHOF.htm| archive-date=2012-02-11}}

Houbregs was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987.

In 2000, Houbregs was inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame for his significant contributions to the sport as a player.{{cite news | title=Houbregs named to Canadian Basketball Hall|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/houbregs-named-to-canadian-basketball-hall-1.207336| date=2000-11-10 | work=CBC News}}

Houbregs died on May 28, 2014 in Olympia, Washington. He was 82 years old.{{cite web| url = https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10998530/former-washington-huskies-star-bob-houbregs-dies-82| title = Former Washington Huskies star Bob Houbregs dies at 82| date = 29 May 2014}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.nba.com/2014/news/05/29/bob-houbregs-dies-at-82.ap/index.html | title=Hall of Famer, ex-No. 2 overall pick Houbregs dies at 82 | website=nba.com | date=May 29, 2014 | access-date=May 29, 2014}}

Career statistics

=NBA=

Source{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/houbrbo01.html|title=Bob Houbregs NBA stats|website=Basketball Reference|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|accessdate=26 September 2023}}

==Regular season==

Year ! Team ! GP ! MPG ! FG% ! FT% ! RPG ! APG ! PPG
class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
style="text-align:left;"\| {{nbay\|1953}} \|style="text-align:left;"\| Milwaukee \| 11	15.1	.306	.765	4.2	.8	5.8
style="text-align:left;"\| {{nbay\|1953\|nolink=y}} \|style="text-align:left;"\| Baltimore \| 59	30.6	.380	.707	5.6	1.9	9.2
style="text-align:left;"\| {{nbay\|1954}} \|style="text-align:left;"\| Baltimore \| 10	30.0	.359	.706	5.5	2.8	9.0
style="text-align:left;"\| {{nbay\|1954\|nolink=y}} \|style="text-align:left;"\| Boston \| 2	7.5	–	1.000	.5	1.0	.5
style="text-align:left;"\| {{nbay\|1954\|nolink=y}} \|style="text-align:left;"\| Fort Wayne \| 52	19.4	.391	.707	4.6	1.1	6.4
style="text-align:left;"\| {{nbay\|1955}} \|style="text-align:left;"\| Fort Wayne \|70	21.9	.430	.739	5.9	2.3	11.1
style="text-align:left;"\| {{nbay\|1956}} \|style="text-align:left;"\| Fort Wayne \| 60	26.5	.432	.714	6.7	1.9	11.2
style="text-align:left;"\| {{nbay\|1957}} \|style="text-align:left;"\| Detroit \| 17	17.8	.358	.698	3.8	1.1	7.5
class="sortbottom" \|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"\|Career \| 281	23.9	.404	.721	5.5	1.8	9.3

==Playoffs==

Year ! Team ! GP ! MPG ! FG% ! FT% ! RPG ! APG ! PPG
class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
style="text-align:left;"\| 1955 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Fort Wayne \| style="background:#CFECEC;"\|11*	19.4	.381	.784	5.6	1.7	7.0
style="text-align:left;"\| 1956 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Fort Wayne \| style="background:#CFECEC;"\|10*	21.7	.462	.705	6.7	1.4	10.3
style="text-align:left;"\| 1957 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Fort Wayne \| 2	19.0	.412	.727	3.0	1.5	11.0
class="sortbottom" \|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"\|Career \| 23	20.3	.424	.739	5.9	1.6	8.8

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070804110857/http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-bob-houbregs.html Hoophall.com]
[https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/houbrbo01.html Career Statistics]
[http://www.seattlepi.com/cbasketball/152750_where17.html Where Are They Now: Bob Houbregs]

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