height_ft death_date statvalue nationality birth_date career_start years death_place draft_year team number image college stats_league name statlabel high_school weight_lb birth_place career_end position letter height_in bbr article_title
6 8 august 2011 2,500 592 730 american 05 september 1943 1969 1969 -- 1971 1972 -- 1973 nashville , tennessee 1965 washington diego conquistadors -lrb- aba -rrb- caps / virginia squires -lrb- aba -rrb- san 20 mike barrett.jpeg west virginia tech -lrb- 1961 -- 1965 -rrb- aba mike barrett points rebounds assists richwood -lrb- richwood , west virginia -rrb- 155 montgomery , west virginia 1973 guard b 2 barremi01 mike barrett -lrb- basketball , born 1943 -rrb-

mike barrett -lrb- basketball , born 1943 -rrb-

michael thomas `` bird man '' barrett -lrb- september 5 , 1943 -- august 8 , 2011 -rrb- was an american basketball player .
he was reared in richwood , west virginia and attended richwood high school .
a 6 ' 2 '' guard from west virginia institute of technology , barrett participated in the 1968 summer olympics , where he won a gold medal for the united states national basketball team .
he also played for the united states men 's national basketball team at the 1967 fiba world championship .
from 1969 to 1973 he played professionally in the american basketball association as a member of the washington capitols , virginia squires , and san diego conquistadors .
he was named to the 1970 aba all-rookie team , and averaged 13.4 points per game over his aba career .
he was named west virginia amateur athlete of the year in 1968 , and in 1980 , he was inducted into the west virginia sports hall of fame .
barrett died august 8 , 2011 after a long illness .
