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Henry Finkel was born on 20 April, 1942 in Union City, New Jersey, US, is an American basketball player (born 1942). Discover Henry Finkel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?
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Henry J. Finkel (born April 20, 1942) is an American basketball player whose professional career lasted from 1966 to 1975.
A 6'11" center (at times listed as 7'0"), Finkel attended Dayton to play for Tom Blackburn, Dayton's coach since 1947.
Finkel redshirted his first year, and eligibility-wise was a sophomore the following year.
Brooks was a "bird dog" (an independent scout) for the University of Dayton, which had just won the 1962 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in Madison Square Garden.
Soon, Finkel enrolled at Dayton.
As a sophomore in 1963–64, Finkel averaged 23.0 points and 13 rebounds per game as the Flyers had a record of 15–10.
However, Blackburn, who had been battling cancer, died eight days after the Flyers' final game of the season.
As a junior, Finkel averaged 25.3 points and 14.9 rebounds for the 22–7 Flyers.
He was co-MVP of the team in 1963–64 and the outright winner in 1964–65 and 1965–66.
He led the Flyers to the NCAA tournament's Sweet Sixteen in both his junior and senior seasons, with the Flyers eventually losing to the #1-ranked team both years.
Due to Finkel's age (22), after his sophomore year he was eligible for the 1964 NBA draft and was chosen in the fourth round by the Los Angeles Lakers, but he chose to remain in school.
As a senior in 1965–66, he averaged 22.7 points and 12.1 rebounds per game as the Flyers were 23–6.
On December 30, 1965, he had a career-high 44 points against the University of Maryland.
He was named All-American by the Helms Foundation.
He remains the third-leading scorer in UD history with 1,968 points, behind only 1965–66 teammate Don May and four-year player Roosevelt Chapman.
He holds the Dayton record for scoring average in a single season (25.3 as a junior) and career (23.7).
His career field goal percentage of .619 is third all-time and first among players with 500 or more field goals made.
He received a bachelor's degree in Education.
He was selected again in the 1965 NBA draft, again in the fourth round, by the Philadelphia 76ers, but he returned to Dayton for his senior year.
Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in second round of the 1966 NBA draft he remained with the team through 1966–67, then played with the San Diego Rockets from 1967 to 1969 and spent the remaining years with the Boston Celtics, when, during his next to last season, the Celtics won the 1974 NBA Championship.
Finkel was born in Union City, New Jersey and attended Holy Family High School.
He enrolled at nearby Saint Peter's University in Jersey City, New Jersey, but dropped out and worked as a sandblaster in a shipyard after his father died of cancer.
He was spotted at a Dairy Queen out with some friends by Harry Brooks, who had seen Finkel play in high school.
Finkel was drafted in the second round (17th overall) in the 1966 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers.
In his first year, he played sparingly—in 27 games he averaged 5.2 minutes, 1.5 points and 2.4 rebounds per game, mostly as a backup to center Darrall Imhoff.
On May 1, 1967, he was drafted by the San Diego Rockets in the NBA expansion draft.
His playing time and production greatly increased from his rookie year.
In 53 games, he averaged 21.1 minutes, a career-high 11.6 points, 7.1 rebounds, and a career-high 1.4 assists per game.
He also had a career-best .492 field goal percentage.
During the season, he set personal single-game highs of 21 points, then 24, and finally 26 on March 6, 1968.
One night later, on March 7, he exploded for 42 points against the Lakers as he made 13 field goals and was 16-for-18 from the free throw line.
His scoring barrage continued the following night with another 35 against the Lakers.
The following season, his third in the NBA, his playing time dipped again.
In 35 games he averaged 9.5 minutes, 3.7 points and 3.1 rebounds.
August 22, 1969 was a date that changed Finkel's life forever as he was traded to the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics, coached by future Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell.
Russell had been player-coach for the Celtics' championship season, but he stepped away from both roles after the season.
With Russell no longer playing and the Celtics' roster aging, in 1969–70 the perennial NBA champion's record fell to an uncharacteristic 34–48 under new coach, Celtics' legend Tom Heinsohn.
Finkel took a lot of heat from Celtics fans —although he had one of his best seasons statistically, he simply wasn't Bill Russell and the team was rebuilding.
In 1974 he was inducted into the University of Dayton Hall of Fame.
