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Joe Fulks

American basketball forward
Joseph Franklin "Jumping Joe" Fulks was an American professional basketball player. The NBA's first scoring champion, he was sometimes called "the first of the high-scoring forwards". He was posthumously enshrined in the Naismith Memorial... Wikipedia
Born: October 26, 1921, Birmingham, Kentucky
Died: March 21, 1976 (age 54 years), Eddyville, KY
College: Murray State (1941–1943)
Date joined: 1946 (Golden State Warriors)
Hall of fame induction: 1978
Position: Forward
High school: Kuttawa (Kuttawa, Kentucky)