Elmer Gainer

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Elmer Gainer

| image =

| birth_date = November 22, 1918

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1970|09|29|1918|11|22}}

| death_place = Des Plaines, Illinois, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 6

| weight_lb = 195

| high_school =

| college = DePaul (1938–1941)

| draft_year = 1947

| draft_league = BAA

| draft_round = 8

| draft_pick = 70

| draft_team = Baltimore Bullets

| career_start = 1941

| career_end = 1950

| career_position = Forward / center

| career_number = 30, 14

| years1 = 1941–1942

| team1 = Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons

| years2 = 1943–1944

| team2 = Sheboygan Red Skins

| years3 = 1944–1946

| team3 = Chicago American Gears

| years4 = 1946–1947

| team4 = Anderson Packers

| years5 = 1947

| team5 = Baltimore Bullets

| years6 = 1947–1948

| team6 = Seattle Athletics

| years7 = 1948

| team7 = Bellingham Fricrests

| years8 = 1948–1949

| team8 = Denver Nuggets

| years9 = 1950

| team9 = Waterloo Hawks

| highlights =

Second-team All-American – MSG (1941)

}}

Elmer R. Gainer (November 22, 1918 – September 29, 1970"Services set for DePaul cager Gainer". Chicago Tribune. October 1, 1970. C2.) was an American professional basketball player. Gainer played college basketball for the DePaul Blue Demons, and was selected in the 1947 BAA draft by the Baltimore Bullets. He played for the Bullets and Waterloo Hawks in the National Basketball Association (NBA).{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gaineel01.html|title=Elmer Gainer NBA & ABA Statistics|publisher=Basketball-Reference.com|accessdate=July 4, 2012}} He had previously played in the National Basketball League with several teams.Jan Hubbard, ed. The Official NBA Encyclopedia. 3rd edition. Doubleday, 2000. 504.{{cite web |title=Elmer Gainer |url=https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/elmer-gainer/ |website=Pro Basketball Encyclopedia |accessdate=August 3, 2020}}

BAA/NBA career statistics

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style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"\| GP \| Games played \| style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"\| APG \| Assists per game
style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"\| FG% \| style="padding-right: 8px" \| Field-goal percentage \| style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"\| PPG \| Points per game
style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"\| FT% \| Free-throw percentage \| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" \| Bold \| Career high

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| Games played

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| Assists per game

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| style="padding-right: 8px" | Field-goal percentage

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| Points per game

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| Career high

=Regular season=

Year ! Team ! GP ! FG% ! FT% ! APG ! PPG
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style="text-align:left;"\| 1947–48 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Baltimore \| 5	.111	.500	0.6	1.0
style="text-align:left;"\| 1949–50 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Waterloo \| 15	.257	.750	0.5	1.6
style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"\|Career \| 20	.227	.643	0.5	1.5