John Givens (basketball)

John Givens (May 12, 1926 – December 8, 2009)[1] was an American basketball player and coach.[4] Givens was a starting guard on the 1950–51 Sheboygan Red Skins of the National Professional Basketball League.Givens was one of the league's most electric performers and finished seventh in NPBL scoring with 569 points in 44 games, a 12.9 per-game average.Givens became the first head coach of the Kentucky Colonels during the American Basketball Association's first season in 1967–1968.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article relating to a United States basketball player, coach, or other figure born in the 1920s is a stub.
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