Purvis Short
Small forward, Basketball Player
1957 –
Who is Purvis Short?
Purvis Short is a retired American professional basketball player, who starred with the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association during the 1980s. A 6'7" small forward, Short averaged 17.3 points per game over his twelve-season career in the NBA.
On November 17, 1984 in game against New Jersey, Short scored a career high 59 points. At the time, only 9 other players had scored more points in one game. After leaving the NBA in 1990, Short took a year off Basketball. In early 1991 he returned to play, this time in Israel for Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Short led the team to a successful season that ended in a 3-2 loss to arch rivals Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Playoff Final series. He retired after the end of the season, in 1992.
Short was affectionately nicknamed "Rainbowman" because of the distinctive rainbow-like high arc of his jump shots.
Purvis is the younger brother of Gene Short, another former NBA player.
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- Born
- Jul 2, 1957
Hattiesburg - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Jackson State University
- Lived in
- Hattiesburg
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on July 23, 2013
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