Rich Kelley

Richard Ryland Kelley (born March 23, 1953) is an American retired basketball player. Kelley played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal and was the first-round pick (7th pick overall) of the New Orleans Jazz in the 1975 NBA draft. Kelley played eleven NBA seasons.

College career

A center/power forward, a graduate of Woodside High School, Kelley played college basketball at Stanford University.

The 7-foot, 235-pound

While in college, Kelley played for the Team USA in the 1974 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.

In his 76 career games at Stanford, under Coach Howard Dallmar, Kelley averaged a double-double of 18.6 points and 12.4 rebounds, shooting 49% from the floor and 78% from the line. He scored 1412 total points, with 944 total rebounds in his three varsity seasons.

NBA career In 1975, Kelley was drafted by the New Orleans Jazz in the first round of the 1975 NBA draft and by the Memphis Sounds in the second round of the 1975 ABA Draft.

In the NBA Kelley played for the New Orleans/Utah Jazz (1975–79, 1983–85), New Jersey Nets (1979–80), Phoenix Suns (1980–82), Denver Nuggets (1982–83) and Sacramento Kings (1985–86). His best individual season was with the Jazz in 1978–79, in which he averaged 15.7 points and 12.8 rebounds per game (good for second in the league in rebounding that year), and also established a franchise record with 166 blocked shots.

He helped the Suns win the 1980–81 NBA Pacific Division and the Jazz win the 1983–84 NBA Midwest Division.

He currently ranks 94th on the NBA's career offensive rebounds list (1,872).

In 11 seasons, he played in 814 games and played 17,711 minutes, a 48.8 field goal percentage (2,166 for 4,435), 78.3 free throw percentage (1,867 for 2,384), 5,678 total rebounds (1,872 offensive, 3,806 defensive), 2,092 assists, 694 steals, 749 blocked shots, 2,613 personal fouls and 6,199 points. He averaged 7.6 points and 7.0 rebounds in his 814 career games. In 2009, Kelley was inducted into the Woodside High School Community Hall of Fame.

Career statistics

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