Add NAIA detail.
| ← Previous revision | Revision as of 18:21, 23 November 2025 | ||
| Line 42: | Line 42: | ||
|
* [[European Professional Basketball League|EPBL]] champion (1975)
|
* [[European Professional Basketball League|EPBL]] champion (1975)
|
||
|
* EPBL Most Valuable Player (1975)
|
* EPBL Most Valuable Player (1975)
|
||
|
* [[NAIA men’s basketball championship|NAIA champion]] ([[1973 NAIA basketball tournament|1973]])
|
|||
|
| stats_league = ABA and NBA
|
| stats_league = ABA and NBA
|
||
|
| stat1label = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
|
| stat1label = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
|
||
| Line 53: | Line 54: | ||
|
==Playing career==
|
==Playing career==
|
||
|
In Teachey, North Carolina, Carr was the first [[African-American]] member of Wallace-Rose Hill High School’s basketball team.<ref name=”nsjonline.com”>[https://nsjonline.com/article/2020/06/100in100_pender/ Pender County’s M.L. Carr, heart-and-soul NBA champion]</ref> Afterwards, he played four years at [[Guilford College]], and
|
In Teachey, North Carolina, Carr was the first [[African-American]] member of Wallace-Rose Hill High School’s basketball team.<ref name=”nsjonline.com”>[https://nsjonline.com/article/2020/06/100in100_pender/ Pender County’s M.L. Carr, heart-and-soul NBA champion]</ref> Afterwards, he played four years at [[Guilford College]], and selected by the [[Kansas City Kings]] of the [[National Basketball Association]] with the seventh pick of the fifth round of the [[1973 NBA draft]], though he never played for the team. He subsequently signed with the [[Kentucky Colonels]] but was one of the final roster cuts the Colonels made in camp, and was released.<ref name=spirits>{{cite web|title=Remember the ABA: Spirits of St. Louis |url=http://www.remembertheaba.com/Spirits-of-St-Louis.html |accessdate=2008-06-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062256/http://www.remembertheaba.com/Spirits-of-St-Louis.html |archivedate=2013-05-09 }}</ref> Carr spent the 1973–74 season with the Hamilton Pat Pavers of the [[Eastern Basketball Association]] (EBA) where he averaged 15.0 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.<ref>{{cite web |title=M.L. Carr minor league basketball statistics |url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbasketball/stats/p-carrml001 |website=Stats Crew |access-date=November 23, 2025}}</ref> He started the following season with the Scranton Apollos but departed in December 1974 to join the [[European Professional Basketball League]] (EPBL).<ref>{{cite news |title=3 Apollos Join League |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-tribune-3-apollos-join-league/185516930/ |access-date=November 23, 2025 |work=The Times-Tribune |date=December 10, 1974 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Carr played in [[Israel]] for the American-owned [[Israel Sabras]] in the short-lived EPBL.<ref name=Sentinel>{{cite web |url=http://www.jpress.nli.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=CGS%2F1975%2F06%2F05&id=Ar02306&sk=A4237D7F |title=Israel’s newest “product” is professional basketball |last=Halpern|first=Burton |date=5 June 1975 |publisher=The Sentinel |via=Jpress.[[National Library of Israel|NLI]].org.il |access-date=2 January 2020}}</ref> For leading his team to the championship, leading the league in scoring, and emerging second in rebounding, he was named [[Most Valuable Player]].
|
||
|
During the [[1975–76 ABA season]], Carr played for the [[Spirits of St. Louis]], averaging 12.2 points and 6.2 rebounds per game, and was named to the ABA’s All-Rookie Team.<ref name=spirits/> The Spirits of St. Louis were one of two ABA teams (the Colonels being the other) that did not join the NBA in the [[ABA–NBA merger]],<ref name=spirits/> and as a result Carr joined the NBA as a member of the [[Detroit Pistons]] from 1976–79. Upon his arrival in Detroit, he famously delivered the [[One-line joke|one-liner]] “Hey, since I’m here, I’m going to change my name from M. L. Carr to Abdul Automobile.”<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30992148/ml-carr-signs-with-nba-dec-76/ “Carr’s signing angers many GM,” ”Daily Press” (Escanaba, MI), Monday, December 27, 1976], Retrieved September 12, 2022.</ref> During the [[1976-77 NBA season]], Carr played all 82 games and averaged the second most points of any Piston at 13.3, behind only [[Bob Lanier]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1976-77 Detroit Pistons Roster and Stats |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DET/1977.html |website=Basketball Reference}}</ref> The [[1977 NBA Playoffs]] marked Carr’s first postseason appearance, though Detroit, then in the Western Conference, were eliminated in the first round by the [[Golden State Warriors]]. On December 27, 1978, Carr set a career high with 36 points scored in a win against the [[Houston Rockets]].<ref>{{cite web |title=M.L. Carr Career High 36 Points |url=https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/m.l.-carr-career-high-points |website=Statmuse}}</ref>
|
During the [[1975–76 ABA season]], Carr played for the [[Spirits of St. Louis]], averaging 12.2 points and 6.2 rebounds per game, and was named to the ABA’s All-Rookie Team.<ref name=spirits/> The Spirits of St. Louis were one of two ABA teams (the Colonels being the other) that did not join the NBA in the [[ABA–NBA merger]],<ref name=spirits/> and as a result Carr joined the NBA as a member of the [[Detroit Pistons]] from 1976–79. Upon his arrival in Detroit, he famously delivered the [[One-line joke|one-liner]] “Hey, since I’m here, I’m going to change my name from M. L. Carr to Abdul Automobile.”<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30992148/ml-carr-signs-with-nba-dec-76/ “Carr’s signing angers many GM,” ”Daily Press” (Escanaba, MI), Monday, December 27, 1976], Retrieved September 12, 2022.</ref> During the [[1976-77 NBA season]], Carr played all 82 games and averaged the second most points of any Piston at 13.3, behind only [[Bob Lanier]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1976-77 Detroit Pistons Roster and Stats |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DET/1977.html |website=Basketball Reference}}</ref> The [[1977 NBA Playoffs]] marked Carr’s first postseason appearance, though Detroit, then in the Western Conference, were eliminated in the first round by the [[Golden State Warriors]]. On December 27, 1978, Carr set a career high with 36 points scored in a win against the [[Houston Rockets]].<ref>{{cite web |title=M.L. Carr Career High 36 Points |url=https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/m.l.-carr-career-high-points |website=Statmuse}}</ref>
|
||
