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Dee Gibson
American basketball player
Robert Dee Gibson Jr. (August 25, 1923 – April 8, 2003) was an American professional basketball player.[1] He was selected in the 1948 BAA Draft by the Minneapolis Lakers.[1] Gibson began his career for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks in the National Basketball League (NBL) in the 1948–49 season and stayed with the team when the NBL became the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the 1949–50 season.[1][2] He then played in the short-lived National Professional Basketball League in 1950–51 for the Louisville Alumnites. He played in college for Western Kentucky University.