height_ft statvalue nationality birth_date career_start years draft_year team draft_pick number college stats_league name statlabel high_school weight_lb birth_place draft_team career_end position letter height_in bbr article_title
6 5,780 -rrb- 906 -lrb- 1.4 apg -rrb- -lrb- 9.1 ppg -rrb- 3,343 -lrb- 5.3 rpg american 31 may 1937 1959 1959 -- 1968 start y 1960 start -- 1963 end 1964 start 1959 st. louis hawks detroit pistons baltimore bullets territorial 20 , 16 , 22 saint louis -lrb- 1956 -- 1959 -rrb- nba bob ferry points rebounds assists cleveland -lrb- st. louis , missouri -rrb- 230 st. louis , missouri st. louis hawks 1968 power forward / center f 8 ferrybo01 bob ferry

bob ferry

robert dean `` bob '' ferry -lrb- born may 31 , 1937 -rrb- is a retired american basketball player and executive .
a 6 ' 8 '' center from saint louis university , ferry was selected by the st. louis hawks with the seventh pick of the 1959 nba draft .
ferry played ten seasons in the nba with the hawks , detroit pistons and baltimore bullets , scoring 5,780 points and grabbing 3,343 rebounds .
after his playing career ended , he became an assistant coach and later general manager for the bullets , winning the nba executive of the year award in 1979 and 1982 .
he later had a brief stint on `` the nba on nbc '' as an `` insider '' alongside peter vescey in the early 1990s .
ferry 's son danny had a thirteen-year nba playing career and later was general manager of the cleveland cavaliers and atlanta hawks .
