Lloyd Neal
{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1950)}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Lloyd Neal
| image = Lloyd Neal 2.jpg
| width =
| caption = Neal (left) in 1977
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 7
| weight_lb = 225
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|12|10}}
| birth_place = Talbotton, Georgia
| nationality = American
| high_school = Talbotton (Talbotton, Georgia)
| college = Tennessee State (1968–1972)
| draft_year = 1972
| draft_round = 3
| draft_pick = 31
| draft_team = Portland Trail Blazers
| career_start = 1972
| career_end = 1979
| career_position = Center / power forward
| career_number = 36
| years1 = {{nbay|1972|start}}–{{nbay|1978|end}}
| team1 = Portland Trail Blazers
| highlights =
| stat1label = Points
| stat1value = 4,846 (11.1 ppg)
| stat2label = Rebounds
| stat2value = 3,370 (7.7 rpg)
| stat3label = Assists
| stat3value = 632 (1.5 apg)
| bbr = nealll01
}}
Lloyd Neal (born December 10, 1950) is an American former professional basketball player born in Talbotton, Georgia.
A 6'7" center/forward from Tennessee State University, Neal spent his entire professional career (1972–1979) with the National Basketball Association's Portland Trail Blazers. Though undersized for his position, he endeared himself to fans with his hard work and tenacity, and he averaged a double-double (13.4 points, 11.8 rebounds) during the 1972–73 NBA season. After his career was cut short by a knee injury in 1979, the Blazers retired his #36 jersey. He finished college in 1980 and moved on to a long career with the Internal Revenue Service in Portland before retiring. {{cite news | last = Arnold | first = Geoffrey |author2=Uthman, Daniel | title = The 1976-77 NBA champion Portland Trail Blazers: 30 years later | publisher = OregonLive.com | date = 2007-06-04 | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930033612/http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/sports/118092033955920.xml&coll=7&thispage=10 | accessdate = 2007-06-04 }}
Career statistics
=NBA statistics=
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=Regular season=
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|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1972}}
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| style="background:#cfecec;"|82* || {{sort|-|—}} || 33.2 || .494 || {{sort|-|—}} || .638 || 11.8 || 1.8 || {{sort|-|—}} || {{sort|-|—}} || 13.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1973}}
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 80 || {{sort|-|—}} || 19.0 || .490 || {{sort|-|—}} || .696 || 6.2 || 1.1 || .6 || .9 || 7.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1974}}
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 82 || {{sort|-|—}} || 27.8 || .471 || {{sort|-|—}} || .641 || 8.4 || 1.7 || .5 || 1.1 || 12.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1975}}
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 68 || {{sort|-|—}} || 34.1 || .481 || {{sort|-|—}} || .694 || 8.6 || 1.7 || .8 || 1.6 || 15.5
|-
| style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"| {{nbay|1976}}†
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 58 || {{sort|-|—}} || 16.5 || .471 || {{sort|-|—}} || .675 || 4.4 || 1.0 || .1 || .6 || 6.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1977}}
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 61 || {{sort|-|—}} || 19.2 || .504 || {{sort|-|—}} || .718 || 6.1 || 1.3 || .5 || .3 || 11.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1978}}
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 4 || {{sort|-|—}} || 12.0 || .364 || {{sort|-|—}} || 1.000 || 2.3 || .3 || .0 || .3 || 2.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 435 || {{sort|-|—}} || 25.3 || .485 || {{sort|-|—}} || .672 || 7.7 || 1.5 || .5 || .9 || 11.1
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=Regular season=
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|-
| style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"| 1977†
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| style="background:#cfecec;"|19* || {{sort|-|—}} || 10.8 || .476 || {{sort|-|—}} || .654 || 3.7 || .9 || .1 || .4 || 4.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 1978
| style="text-align:left;"| Portland
| 3 || {{sort|-|—}} || 15.7 || .333 || {{sort|-|—}} || 1.000 || 3.7 || .7 || .0 || 1.3 || 5.0
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 22 || {{sort|-|—}} || 11.5 || .440 || {{sort|-|—}} || .667 || 3.7 || .9 || .1 || .5 || 4.2
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References
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External links
- [https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/n/nealll01.html Career stats] at [https://www.basketball-reference.com/ www.basketball-reference.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222214347/http://www.basketball-reference.com/ |date=2011-02-22 }}
- [http://www.nba.com/blazers/history/Learn_More_About_Lloyd_Neal-64032-41.html Profile] at [http://www.nba.com/blazers www.nba.com/blazers]
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{{Portland Trail Blazers 1976–77 NBA champions}}
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Category:20th-century African-American sportsmen
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Category:American men's basketball players
Category:Basketball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
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Category:NBA players with retired numbers
Category:People from Talbotton, Georgia
Category:Portland Trail Blazers draft picks
Category:Portland Trail Blazers players