Ray Lumpp

{{short description|American basketball player}}

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

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Ray Lumpp

| image =

| width =

| caption =

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lb = 178

| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|07|11}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

| death_date={{death date and age|2015|1|16|1923|7|11}}

| death_place=Mineola, New York, U.S.

| nationality = American

| high_school = Newtown (Queens, New York)

| college = NYU (1942–1943, 1946–1948)

| draft_year = 1948

| draft_round = --

| draft_pick = --

| draft_team = Indianapolis Jets

| career_start = 1948

| career_end = 1953

| career_number = 40, 7, 8

| career_position = Point guard / shooting guard

| years1 = 1948–1949

| team1 = Indianapolis Jets

| years2 = 1949–{{nbay|1952|start}}

| team2 = New York Knicks

| years3 = {{nbay|1952|full=y}}

| team3 = Baltimore Bullets

| highlights =

| stats_league = BAA and NBA

| stat1label = Points

| stat1value = 2,462 (8.2 ppg)

| stat2label = Rebounds

| stat2value = 391 (2.2 rpg)

| stat3label = Assists

| stat3value = 654 (2.2 apg)

| bbr = lumppra01

| medal_templates =

{{MedalSport | Men's basketball}}

{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}}}}

{{MedalOlympics}}

{{MedalGold | 1948 London | Team competition}}

}}

Raymond George Lumpp (July 11, 1923 – January 16, 2015) was an American professional basketball player.

Lumpp was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens. He played college basketball for New York University, and was on the team that made it to the finals of the 1948 NIT tournament.{{citation |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |title=Ray Lumpp, Who Played for Knicks and Ran a Track Meet, Dies at 91 | newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 16, 2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/sports/ray-lumpp-who-played-for-knicks-and-ran-a-track-meet-dies-at-91.html?_r=1}} Lumpp competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics as part of the American men's basketball team that won the gold medal.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/ray-lumpp-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418062903/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/ray-lumpp-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Ray Lumpp Olympic Results |accessdate=14 June 2018}} From 1948 to 1953 Lumpp played professionally for the NBA's New York Knicks, Indianapolis Jets, and Baltimore Bullets. He averaged 12.7 points per game in his rookie season.

Following his basketball career, Lumpp served as athletic director of the New York Athletic Club and ran the club's annual track and field meet during the 1960s. He later organized the Vitalis Olympic Invitational indoor meet held at the Meadowlands.{{cite web | title=Bill Shannon Biographical Dictionary of New York Sports: Ray Lumpp|url=http://sports.nyhistory.org/ray-lumpp/}} He died in Mineola, New York in January 2015.