height_ft death_date nationality birth_date years death_place draft_year team draft_pick number college name high_school weight_lb birth_place draft_team position draft_round letter height_in bbr article_title
6 28 june 2012 american 21 december 1929 1950 1953 y 1951 1951 y 1952 1952 1952 -- roswell , georgia 1950 tri-cities knicks bridgeport roesslers -lrb- abl -rrb- washington capitols -lrb- abl blackhawks -rrb- scranton miners -lrb- abl -rrb- carbondale aces -lrb- abl -rrb- new york 18 9 , 22 , 19 liu brooklyn -lrb- 1946 -- 1950 -rrb- herb scherer bloomfield tech -lrb- bloomfield , new jersey -rrb- 212 maplewood , new jersey new york knicks center 2 s 9 scherhe01 herb scherer

herb scherer

herbert frederick `` herb '' scherer -lrb- december 21 , 1929 -- june 28 , 2012 -rrb- was an american basketball player who played two seasons in the national basketball association -lrb- nba -rrb- .
scherer , a 6 ' 10 '' center , played collegiately at long island university from 1946 to 1950 .
he was drafted by the new york knicks in the second round of the 1950 nba draft -lrb- 18th pick overall -rrb- .
scherer played for the tri-cities blackhawks in the 1950 -- 51 nba season , averaging 3.4 points per game as a rookie .
the following season , he played for the new york knicks , averaging 3.9 points per game .
following his nba career , scherer started his own construction business .
he died on june 28 , 2012 in his home in roswell , georgia .
