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Friday, February 23, 2001
Rodgers was two-time All-American at Temple
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LOS ANGELES –
Guy Rodgers, a former All-America guard at Temple and four-time NBA All-Star, died Monday in Los Angeles.
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Guy Rodgers is listed among the All-Time Great Players in the Official NBA Register. He was a first round, territorial draft choice from Temple University of Philadelphia in 1958 and accompanied the Warriors to San Francisco when the franchise moved there in 1961.
As good as his NBA career was, I remember Guy Rodgers best as a collegiate All-American at Temple in the mid-1950s. Temple had great teams in those years, coached by Hall of Famer Harry Litwack. The Owls were ranked among the top three annually, and advanced to the NCAA Final Four twice and the NIT once -- finishing third each time. I coached at St. Joseph's College at that time, which was the beginning of the highly intense Philadelphia Big Five (Temple, Penn, St. Joseph's, La Salle and Villanova) competition.
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Rodgers, 65, was pronounced dead at Midway Hospital at 5:26 p.m. PT, a hospital spokeswoman said. Rodgers felt ill while attending a movie. After leaving the theater, he complained of chest pains and was taken to the hospital.
Rodgers was a two-time All-American guard at Temple, where he led the Owls to a 74-16 record. He directed Temple to three consecutive third-place finishes in postseason tournaments. The Owls finished third in the 1956 and 1958 NCAA Tournaments, as well as the 1957 NIT.
Rodgers, Temple's first inductee into the Big 5 Hall of Fame, was the school's leading career scorer with 1,767 points until Terence Stansbury passed him in 1984. He is currently third, behind Mark Macon and Stansbury.
Rodgers was a territorial pick of the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1958 draft. He played four years in Philadelphia and went with the team when it moved to San Francisco. Rodgers was a teammate of Wilt Chamberlain for five-plus seasons with the Warriors and played his last season, 1969-70, as a teammate of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Milwaukee. He was an original member of the Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks.
Rogers led the NBA in assists in 1962-63 and again in 1967-68, after he was traded to the Chicago Bulls. He remains the Warriors all-time assists leader with 4,855.
In 1964, he helped the San Francisco Warriors reach the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Boston Celtics in five games.
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