Randy_Owens

Randy Owens

Randy Owens

American basketball player (1959–2015)

Randolph Owens (May 12, 1959 – December 1, 2015) was an American basketball player. He played the center and forward positions.[1] He was drafted in the 1980 NBA draft in Round 6 by the Indiana Pacers. He played in the Continental Basketball Association for three years, in the Israel Basketball Premier League for five years, and in a number of other countries.

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Biography

Owens was 6' 7" (2.01 m) tall, and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg).[2] He attended Germantown High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[3][4]

Owens then attended Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science (now known as Thomas Jefferson University).[5] He played basketball there.[5] As a sophomore in 1978-79, he was 19th in the NCAA Division II with a field goal percentage of .588, and was a National Association of Basketball Coaches Division II Second Team All American.[6][7]

Owens entered the 1980 NBA draft as an Early Entrant.[5] He was drafted in Round 6, as Pick 9, by the Indiana Pacers, 124th overall.[5][8]

He played in the Continental Basketball Association for three years.[2][9] Owens played for the Scranton Aces in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1980–81 (and was second in the CBA in points scored), Rochester Zeniths in Rochester, New York in 1981–82, and the Maine Lumberjacks in Bangor, Maine in 1982–83.[2][9][10]

Owens played basketball in Israel for five years, including for Hapoel Holon and Maccabi Haifa in the Israel Basketball Premier League.[11][12][13] He also played in Spain, Argentina, and the Philippines.[12]

He died of cancer at the age of 56 in Philadelphia.[14]

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    "Phila. hoops standout dies at 21," The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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    "Randy Owens minor league basketball Statistics". StatsCrew.com.
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    "NBA Draftees From Philadelphia Schools". tedsilary.com.
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    "Basketball". The Philadelphia Inquirer. February 4, 1977. p. 4.
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    "Randy Owens Player Profile, Jefferson, NCAA Stats, Awards". basketball.realgm.com.
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    Basketball Prospectus, 1979-80
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    "NABC Division II All-America Teams". NABC. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
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    Johnson, Tim (2011). Who Da Man? The Quintessential Analysis of NBA Draft History 1947-2010. Tim Johnson. ISBN 9780692013229 – via Google Books.
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    "1982 Maine Lumberjacks minor league basketball Roster". StatsCrew.com.
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    "1980 Continental Basketball Association (CBA) sports Leaders". StatsCrew.com.
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    "Basketball". The Jerusalem Post Magazine. 1983.
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    Pedro Serrano (February 28, 2011). "Entrevista a Randy Owens". basketme.com.
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    "Basketball", The Jerusalem Post, October 19, 1988
  14. [14]
    "Fallece a los 56 años Randy Owens, el primer americano que jugó en Murcia". Gigantes del Basket. December 2, 2015.
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