Dennis Hamilton
Basketball Player
1944 –
Who is Dennis Hamilton?
Dennis Eugene Hamilton was an American basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association from 1967 to 1971.
Hamilton, a 6'8" forward from Huntington Beach High School in Huntington Beach, California, played collegiately at the Arizona State University from 1963 to 1966. For his career, he scored 1,079 points and shot .813 from the free throw line. He was named second team All-Western Athletic Conference in 1966.
Undrafted after the completion of his college career, Hamilton signed as a free agent with the Los Angeles Lakers for the 1967–68 NBA season. For the season he averaged 2.8 points and 1.6 rebounds per game for a team that made it to the 1968 NBA Finals. Following the season, Hamilton was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 1968 NBA Expansion Draft, then traded to the Atlanta Hawks for the 1968–69 NBA season. Hamilton then played two years in the American Basketball Association, for the Pittsburgh Pipers and Kentucky Colonels. For his NBA/ABA career he averaged 4.6 points and 3.1 rebounds per game.
Hamilton died on June 18, 2012.
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- Born
- May 8, 1944
Huntington Beach - Also known as
- dennis_hamilton
- Education
- Arizona State University
- Lived in
- Huntington Beach
- Died
- May 7, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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