Facts: - draft round: 1 - draft pick: 7 - career end: 1962 - number: 33 - height in: 8 - team: olimpia -rrb- chicago packers milano -lrb- italy -rrb- denver truckers -lrb- nibl - birth date: 01 july 1935 - draft team: syracuse nationals - weight lb: 220 - draft year: 1957 - bbr: bonsage01 - death date: 20 july 2015 - college: illinois -lrb- 1954 -- 1957 -rrb- - letter: b - name: george bon salle - death place: south miami , florida - birth place: chicago , illinois - position: power forward - high school: loyola academy -lrb- wilmette , illinois -rrb- - career start: 1957 - nationality: american - years: 1957 -- 1958 1958 -- 1959 1961 -- 1962 - height ft: 6 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of george bon salle .
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george h. bon salle -lrb- july 1 , 1935 -- july 20 , 2015 -rrb- was an american professional basketball player .a 6 ' 8 '' forward , he starred at loyola academy in wilmette , illinois , before playing at the university of illinois .as a senior in 1957 , bon salle was awarded all-american honors , and he was selected by the nba 's syracuse nationals in that year 's professional draft .however , bon salle never played for the nationals , spending most of his professional career with the national industrial basketball league 's denver truckers .a gold-medalist at the 1959 pan-american games , bon salle also played briefly for the nba 's chicago packers -lrb- now the washington wizards -rrb- during the 1961 -- 62 season .he collected the posters of the french graphic artist bernard villemot and published a catalogue raisonne of those works .