height_ft statvalue nationality birth_date career_start years draft_year team draft_pick number image college stats_league name statlabel high_school weight_lb birth_place draft_team career_end position draft_round letter height_in bbr article_title
6 4,434 1,078 325 american 22 july 1952 1973 1973 1977 1978 -- 1974 1974 -- 1976 1976 -- 1977 1974 san nets buffalo braves antonio spurs kentucky colonels buffalo braves new jersey 55 10 , 14 , 15 bird averitt.jpeg pepperdine -lrb- 1971 -- 1973 -rrb- aba/nba bird averitt points assists steals hopkinsville -lrb- hopkinsville , kentucky -rrb- 170 hopkinsville , kentucky portland trail blazers 1978 guard 4 a 1 averibi01 bird averitt

bird averitt

william rodney `` bird '' averitt -lrb- born july 22 , 1952 -rrb- is a retired american basketball player .
born in hopkinsville , kentucky , he played collegiately for pepperdine university .
afterward , he was drafted in the fourth round of the 1973 nba draft by the portland trail blazers and the second round of the 1973 aba draft by the san diego conquistadors .
he played for the san antonio spurs -lrb- 1973 -- 74 -rrb- and kentucky colonels -lrb- 1974 -- 76 -rrb- in the american basketball association for 236 games , winning the 1975 aba championship with the colonels .
after the colonels were disbanded as part of the aba-nba merger , averitt joined the buffalo braves through the 1976 aba dispersal draft , playing with that team for the 1976-77 season until joining the new jersey nets for the 1977-78 season , playing 130 games in the nba with those two teams .
