height_ft death_date statvalue nationality birth_date career_start years death_place draft_year team draft_pick number 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 03 august 1975 350 209 47 american 31 october 1931 1953 1953 y hollywood , california 1953 fort wayne pistons 4 6 columbia -lrb- 1950 -- 1953 -rrb- nba jack molinas points rebounds assists stuyvesant -lrb- new york city , new york -rrb- 200 new york city , new york fort wayne pistons 1954 small forward / power forward 1 m 6 molinja01 jack molinas

jack molinas

jacob l. `` jack '' molinas -lrb- october 31 , 1931 -- august 3 , 1975 -rrb- was an american professional basketball player and one of the key figures in the point shaving scandal that almost destroyed ncaa basketball .
molinas attended stuyvesant high school and graduated from columbia university in 1953 , where he set a team record for most points scored in a game -- a mark that was eclipsed a few years later by chet forte .
molinas played briefly in the nba in the 1953-1954 season , participating in 32 games for the fort wayne pistons before being banned from the nba for life for betting on games during his time at columbia .
later , he was one of the bookies in a 1961 point-shaving scandal .
notably , two of the players ensnared in the scandal were future hall-of-famers : connie hawkins and roger brown .
molinas gave hawkins $ 250 during his freshman year at iowa , but never encouraged him to throw games .
although molinas never implicated hawkins in any way , both hawkins and brown were effectively blackballed from both collegiate and professional basketball , until signing with the upstart american basketball association in 1967 .
hawkins also played in the abl for its only season , 1961-62 .
molinas was convicted for his role in the scheme and sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison , of which he served five years .
molinas was said to have contacts with new york city mobster thomas eboli .
he was murdered in 1975 in an apparent mob hit .
