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I remember in 1961 going to the movie downtown Clemson
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Feb 6, 2023, 6:41 PM
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You could get in after 10:00 Friday nights for a quarter. Most times I went you would have to put up with a constant pounding sound coming from the front row. It would be Pete Maravich constantly
dribbling a basketball. In the afternoons you would see him dribbling through town occassionaly bouncing off a wall Sloan's or Dan"s without missing a beat. I watched him play in high school. His favorite thing was to take final haftime shot as he crossed midcourt line. All net most of the time. I often wonder what a boost it would have been to Clemson basketball If they had kept Press and Pete through his college career.
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Dribbling a basketball during a movie? What a #####
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Feb 6, 2023, 6:44 PM
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I don't think I would have put up with that regardless of how good he was.
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Re: Dribbling a basketball during a movie? What a #####
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Feb 6, 2023, 6:49 PM
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The movie was usually loaded with football and basketball players. You would have to stay home You best not touch Pete.
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Re: Dribbling a basketball during a movie? What a #####
Feb 6, 2023, 7:28 PM
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I guess (some) athletes being entitled a-holes is nothing new. I still admire his basketball skills, but that definitely lowers my opinion of him as a person.
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People can change
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Feb 6, 2023, 7:47 PM
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I've read he later became a born again Christian. Those early days were apparently how he was raised; they said his father put a basketball in his hands as a toddler, similar to Tiger Woods swinging a golf club at a very young age.
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Re: People can change
Feb 6, 2023, 8:45 PM
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That basketball was all he had. Whenever you saw Pete you saw a basketball Yes the dribbling in the movie was a little annoying but you got accustomed to it. Besides the movies on Friday night were usually several years old and I was not going to say anything to him or bother him. And we probably were not going to let anyone else bother him. The mgr of the theatre certainly did not bother him. Yes Pete was a born again Christian. Even before then he worked with youth and helped a lot of kids. He died young with an enlarged heart. He had a big heart in more ways than one.
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Re: Dribbling a basketball during a movie? What a #####
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Feb 6, 2023, 7:30 PM
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Your taking about Pistol Pete Maravich the greatest basketball player to ever live...get a life..he would have handed your ### to you sugar
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Re: Dribbling a basketball during a movie? What a #####
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Feb 6, 2023, 7:43 PM
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Sorry dude, it's highly likely that I'm much stronger than you. Not claiming I'm the strongest person or a bad ###, but I am much stronger than the average American male. I was skinny as a youth, and when I see people from my youth that haven't seen me in years they are surprised by how much muscle I have added over the years. So highly unlikely you could do anything to me if challenged me. Most likely I would just shove you to the ground and tell you take your loss like a man without even punching you.
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Plus - Pete was a skinny high school kid so
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Feb 6, 2023, 8:01 PM
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you probably could have handled him back then
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Re: I remember in 1961 going to the movie downtown Clemson
Feb 6, 2023, 6:45 PM
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If you have a Pete Maravich story while at Clemson please let us hear it.
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that's a little before my time
Feb 6, 2023, 6:52 PM
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@ Clemson. 
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Re: I remember in 1961 going to the movie downtown Clemson
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Feb 6, 2023, 7:01 PM
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i remember the opening home game in brand new Littlejohn in 1968. LSU 86 - CU 85. I think Pete had about 44 shooting from the hip. No 3 pointers back then.
But as they say, if you remember a lot about the 60's you probably weren't there.
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Re: I remember in 1961 going to the movie downtown Clemson
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Feb 6, 2023, 7:27 PM
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i remember the opening home game in brand new Littlejohn in 1968. LSU 86 - CU 85. I think Pete had about 44 shooting from the hip. No 3 pointers back then.
But as they say, if you remember a lot about the 60's you probably weren't there.
As I recall . Pete and Butch had a shoot out. Late stages of the game they all went after Pete and he rifled the underneth to his foeward for a layup to win the game. About your point about 3 pointers---they did a study on his college career and he would have averaged over 60 a game if the line had existed then. I know he averaged in the low 40s as it is.
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I doubt he would've averaged over 60! That would have meant
Feb 6, 2023, 8:22 PM
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he would have had to average making 16 or 17 threes per game, since I think has highest season average was about 44. So to get to 60 with the same shots, he would have to make 16 threes per game!
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Re: I doubt he would've averaged over 60! That would have meant
Feb 6, 2023, 10:12 PM
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No 3 point line back then.
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Re: I remember in 1961 going to the movie downtown Clemson
Feb 6, 2023, 10:05 PM
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My father, class of ‘60, said that he remembered seeing Pete ride through campus on his bicycle dribbling the ball. He said that he never saw Pete without a basketball.
I have a friend who went to high school with Pete at Broughton in Raleigh. She said the same thing, he carried or dribbled a ball everywhere he went.
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Pete was a hooper or whatever today calls it
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Feb 6, 2023, 10:28 PM
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Still great shooter. Still believe Oglesby best str8 shooter ever walk thru clemson. Of course I'm one of those idiots that think cj was the most dynamic player in college football.
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Great story but I have to call BS on this:
Feb 6, 2023, 6:54 PM
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"His favorite thing was to take final haftime shot as he crossed midcourt line. All net most of the time."
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Re: Great story but I have to call BS on this:
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Feb 6, 2023, 7:39 PM
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"His favorite thing was to take final haftime shot as he crossed midcourt line. All net most of the time."
Only played at DHS for a short time before his dad left CU. He practiced at the gym while Press worked his team out. Press would on occasion give him the ball and have his players try to steal the ball---never happened. The closest player handling the ball in that era was not Ernie D., but John Roche of USC--really NY city. Said that worked out using Pete's drills-----still not close.
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Re: Great story but I have to call BS on this:
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Feb 6, 2023, 7:45 PM
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Google Pete Maravich half court shots. I maybe should not have said favorite and and I do not know about college so I will retract a little. I saw more than half dozen high school games and hit more than missed. Admittedly sometimes he was 5 or 6 steps passed midcourt. He hit one in Hartwell Ga shot turned his head threw up his hands and kept walking to the bench he never stopped to watch the ball go through the net.
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Re: I remember in 1961 going to the movie downtown Clemson
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Feb 6, 2023, 6:56 PM
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So I guess in 1961 he was 14.
Was he already a celeb?
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Feb 6, 2023, 7:11 PM
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He was an everyday face around the athletic offices and Fike. He practiced with the varsity his dad was head coach. And yes he was a celeb on campus and he sold out high school gyms wherever he played. He was doing Harlem Globetrotter stuff at 14.
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Re: I remember in 1961 going to the movie downtown Clemson
Feb 6, 2023, 7:16 PM
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He was a good one….. on the basketball court. Not so much in the classroom
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That's why Press left NC State for LSU...Pete couldn't get in NC State
Feb 6, 2023, 8:25 PM
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or probably any other ACC school at the time!
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Re: That's why Press left NC State for LSU...Pete couldn't get in NC State
Feb 6, 2023, 9:05 PM
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The deal with LSU was a pkg deal I do not know about academics. Press got good money and 5 year deal contingent upon Pete coming. Pete's school of choice was West Virginia Jerry West was his Idol. I am certain he could have gotten in West Virginia but he had to go with dad.
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Pete didn't go to Clemson.
Feb 6, 2023, 8:52 PM
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You talking about when he was in high school?
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Re: About His Heart
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Feb 6, 2023, 10:57 PM
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He was born without a left coronary artery. That's the main artery supplying blood to the heart. His heart was constantly oxygen deprived. It's amazing he played as well as he did and lived as long as he did.
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Feb 7, 2023, 12:05 PM
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I played pick-up basketball at the Clemson Y on a Friday night around 11:30 at night - yes it was still opened.....Even though he was not supposed to he would come there after a Friday night High School game for even more basketball - had a great time with him there as did others! He just could not get enough basketball!
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Re: I remember in 1961 going to the movie downtown Clemson
Feb 7, 2023, 12:13 PM
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And he died while playing basketball with a Christian team in California due to a heart attack on the court - later discovered he had that heart defect all his life.... He had been Born Again to his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ recently and had just mailed a Bible and testimonial to talk show host Larry King who revealed that he had received it several days after Pete had passed away in the mail!
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Re: I remember in 1961 going to the movie downtown Clemson
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I watched Caddy Shack and Zombie there in 1980-81. I saw some other movies there, but those 2 stand out. I remember signs in the lobby saying don't watch Zombie if you have a weak heart.
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Re: I remember in 1961 going to the movie downtown Clemson
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Feb 7, 2023, 7:22 PM
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My high school played Daniel in I think 1961, a carload of us from Gvl went over to watch.
I think Pete was in 8th grade but playing varsity. I don't remember the stats but he killed us. He was a real Pistol for sure.
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