Gregory Darryle Howard (born January 8, 1948) is an American former professional

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player who played in the

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(NBA) for two seasons.

Career

Howard attended Fifth Avenue High School in

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until 1966. After one year at

Hartnell College Hartnell College is a public community college in Salinas, California. Established in 1920 as Salinas Junior College, Hartnell is one of 115 schools that constitute the California Community Colleges, one of the three higher education systems i ...

, he enrolled at the

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, playing for the New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team from 1967 to 1969. In 1968–69, he was the Lobos leading scorer (19.7 points per game). In a total of 45 games for New Mexico, he averaged 16.6 points and 10.1 rebounds per contest. Howard had 22 double-doubles for the Lobos. After playing for one season in the Italian

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for Brill Cagliari, he was selected in the first round of

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by the

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. He played the 1970–71 season with the team before being traded to the

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in 1971. He appeared in a total of 92 NBA games, averaging 3.4 points and 2.5 rebounds a contest. In 1974–75, Howard played for ABC Nantes in

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. From 1975 to 1977, he played for

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. His dominating and spectacular style of play was considered new for Swiss basketball. He moved to

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in 1977 and was signed by

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

Career statistics

NBA

Source

Regular season

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References

1948 births Living people 20th-century American sportsmen American expatriate basketball people in Italy American men's basketball players Basketball players from Pittsburgh Cleveland Cavaliers players Fribourg Olympic players Hartnell Panthers men's basketball players Lega Basket Serie A players New Mexico Lobos men's basketball players Phoenix Suns draft picks Phoenix Suns players Power forwards Virginia Squires draft picks Washington Caps draft picks {{1940s-US-basketball-bio-stub