Joe McNamee

{{Short description|American basketball player}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Joe McNamee

| image =

| width =

| caption =

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 6

| weight_lb = 210

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|09|24}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|07|16|1926|09|24}}

| birth_place = San Francisco, California

| death_place = Greenbrae, California

| nationality = American

| high_school = Saint Ignatius
(San Francisco, California)

| college = San Francisco (1946–1950)

| draft_year = 1950

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 9

| draft_team = Rochester Royals

| career_start = 1950

| career_end = 1952

| career_number = 20, 13

| career_position = Power forward / center

| years1 = {{nbay|1950|start}}–{{nbay|1951|start}}

| team1 = Rochester Royals

| years2 = {{nbay|1951|full=y}}

| team2 = Baltimore Bullets

| highlights =

• NBA champion (1951)

| stat1label = Points

| stat1value = 289 (2.4 ppg)

| stat2label = Rebounds

| stat2value = 238 (2.5) rpg)

| stat3label = Assists

| stat3value = 58 (0.5 apg)

| bbr = mcnamjo01

}}

John Joseph McNamee (September 24, 1926 – July 16, 2011) was an American professional basketball player.[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/18/SPLQ1KBURL.DTL SFGate obituary] retrieved 25/7/2011

A 6′6″ forward/center from the University of San Francisco, McNamee played two seasons (1950–1952) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Rochester Royals and Baltimore Bullets. He averaged 2.4 points per game in his career and won a league championship with Rochester in 1951. Joe went on to have a long and successful career in sales for Watson and Meehan, a distributor of Cummins engines. Joe and his wife Alice had eight kids (Sharon, John, Pattie, Casey, Dennis, Peter, Steve and Jim) and 11 grandchildren.