Gar Heard
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 3, 1948 Hogansville, Georgia |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Listed weight | 219 lb (99 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Ethel Knight (LaGrange, Georgia) |
| College | Oklahoma (1967–1970) |
| NBA draft | 1970 / Round: 3 / Pick: 40th overall |
| Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics | |
| Playing career | 1970–1981 |
| Position | Power forward |
| Number | 40, 24 |
| Career history | |
| As player: | |
| 1970–1972 | Seattle SuperSonics |
| 1972–1973 | Chicago Bulls |
| 1973–1976 | Buffalo Braves |
| 1976–1980 | Phoenix Suns |
| 1980–1981 | San Diego Clippers |
| As coach: | |
| 1992–1993 | Dallas Mavericks |
| 1999–2000 | Washington Wizards |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Career NBA statistics | |
| Points | 6,828 (8.7 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 5,876 (7.5 rpg) |
| Assists | 1,220 (1.6 apg) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Garfield "Gar" Heard (born May 3, 1948) is an American retired professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiately at the University of Oklahoma and was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the third round of the 1970 NBA draft. He had a 15-year NBA career for four different teams (the Sonics, the Buffalo Braves/San Diego Clippers, the Chicago Bulls, and the Phoenix Suns). Heard is best known for a buzzer beater he made to send Game 5 of the 1976 Phoenix–Boston championship series into a third overtime. This feat is commonly known as "The Shot", or "The Shot Heard 'Round the World", in reference to Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Concord Hymn", which was written about the Battle of Lexington.
Heard set an Oklahoma school record with 21 double-doubles for a season by a Sooner in 27 games during 1969–70. It was finally broken by Blake Griffin on February 14, 2009.
Prior to the 1973–74 NBA season, Heard and Kevin Kunnert were traded from the Chicago Bulls to the Buffalo Braves for John Hummer, a 1974 NBA draft 2nd round pick and a 1975 NBA draft 2nd round pick. Heard went on to rank in the top ten in rebounds and blocked shots that season. The deal was part of the resume that earned Buffalo Braves General Manager Eddie Donovan the NBA Executive of the Year Award. Heard once played 86 games in an NBA season, which is 82 games long, when he was traded in the middle of the 1975–76 NBA season from Buffalo to the Phoenix Suns.
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