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Elvin Hayes led his Britton High School team to a state championship during the senior year of 1963. He averaged thirty-five points per game that regular season and scored forty-five points with twenty rebounds in the final victory.
Elvin Hayes scored thirty-nine points and grabbed fifteen rebounds to help Houston defeat UCLA seventy-one to sixty-nine inside the Astrodome stadium. This result snapped a forty-seven-game winning streak for the Bruins and earned him College Basketball Player of the Year from The Sporting News.
Elvin Hayes played 1,303 games over sixteen seasons without missing more than two games in any single year. This durability earned him exactly 50,000 minutes played during his career.
Elvin Hayes was traded to the Baltimore Bullets on the 23rd of June 1972 and later returned to the Rockets in 1981 after being sent back from Washington. He finished his playing days in Texas where he won an NBA title over the Seattle SuperSonics in 1978.
The Rockets retired Elvin Hayes jersey number forty-four on the 18th of November 2022. He had previously become a Liberty County sheriff's deputy in November 2007 and began working as an analyst for radio broadcasts on KBME on the 22nd of November 2010.