Bill Bertka was the New Orleans Jazz general manager who swung the ... Mark Kriegel wrote in 2007’s Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich. “Still, they are woefully inadequate in measuring the ...

Pete Maravich was the very first Jazzman signed ... Catch The Note: History of the Jazz on Apple, Spotify, Google, or Stitcher. The Note is presented by Delta. If you are having difficulty ...

More than four decades later, when former New Orleans Jazz players ... “Yes, Pete had 68 points. I had two.” James tells another story that sums up how unique Maravich’s scoring achievement ...

Pete Maravich drives on New York Knicks' Tom McMillen to score two of his 68 points for the New Orleans Jazz in a game at the Superdome on Feb. 25, 1977. (The Times-Picayune/File). Salt Lake City ...

And Sports Illustrated said this: When the New Orleans Jazz got Pistol Pete Maravich from Atlanta last spring in return for a batch of future draft picks, the reaction around pro basketball was that ...

Before Magic Johnson made Showtime mainstream, and well before the AND1 Mixtape Tour turned suburban kids into streetball fans, there was 'Pistol' Pete ... Maravich to the New Orleans Jazz for ...

In March 1974, the New Orleans Jazz became the 18th NBA team as a group led by Fred Rosenfeld and Sam Battistone paid $6.15 million for the expansion franchise. According to sportsteamhistory.com ...

Born June 22, 1947 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, Pete Maravich began playing varsity ... with Atlanta before being traded to the New Orleans (later Utah) Jazz in 1974. He went on to play six seasons ...

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