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Elvin Ernest Hayes is a former NBA power forward born on the 17th of November, 1945, in Rayville, Louisiana. He played 16 seasons in the NBA, scored 27,313 career points (twelfth all-time), and is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, inducted in 1990. He is regarded as one of the best power forwards in NBA history.
On the 20th of January, 1968, Houston beat UCLA 71-69 in the first nationally televised regular-season college basketball game, played before 52,693 fans at the Houston Astrodome. Elvin Hayes scored 39 points and held Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) to 15 points, ending UCLA's 47-game winning streak.
Hayes retired holding the NBA record for total regular-season minutes played, with exactly 50,000. He set an NBA Finals record for most offensive rebounds in a single game with 11, achieved on the 27th of May, 1979, against the Seattle SuperSonics. He also holds the all-time NCAA tournament rebounding record with 222 rebounds.
Yes. Hayes won the 1978 NBA title with the Washington Bullets over the Seattle SuperSonics. He averaged 21.8 points and 12.1 rebounds per game across 21 playoff games that postseason, leading all players in total points scored throughout the playoffs.
Hayes boycotted the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame beginning in 1990, the year he was inducted, and refused to return until his University of Houston coach Guy Lewis was also admitted. Lewis had been the coach who recruited Hayes as one of Houston's first African American basketball players in 1964.
After retiring in 1984, Hayes returned to the University of Houston to complete his undergraduate degree, describing it as the hardest thing he had ever done. In November 2007 he became a Liberty County, Texas, sheriff's deputy. He later became a radio analyst for Houston Cougars basketball on Houston's KBME, a role announced on the 22nd of November, 2010.