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Joe Bryant

Power Forward  at Houston Rockets
Age71
NationalityUSA
Height208 cm (6'10")
Weight91 kg
BornOct 19, 1954
CollegeLa Salle
Career
9.4PPG
4.4RPG
2.0APG
470 games · 6 seasons

Career snapshot

6seasons
470games
4,425career pts
12.0PER (avg)
Most-played franchise: Los Angeles Clippers · 238 games · 1979-80–1981-82

Position rank · 1982-83

#9PPG rank
#9PER rank
#11WS rank
Among 18 Power Forward players (min. 41 games)

Career highs (single season)

PPG 11.8 1981-82 · LAC
RPG 6.4 1979-80 · LAC
APG 2.5 1981-82 · LAC
PER 13.1 1978-79 · PHI
WS 2.2 1977-78 · PHI

Draft

1975
Round 1 · Pick 14
from La Salle

Stats by season

SeasonTeamGGSMIN PTSREBASTSTLBLK FG%3P%FT%PERWS
1977-78 PHI 81 0 15.3 6.1 3.5 1.6 0.7 0.3 43.6 0.0 77.1 12.6 2.2
1978-79 PHI 70 0 15.2 7.6 3.7 1.5 0.7 0.1 42.9 0.0 72.4 13.1 1.5
1979-80 LAC 81 0 28.7 9.3 6.4 1.8 1.3 0.5 43.1 14.7 74.2
1980-81 LAC 82 0 28.8 11.6 5.4 2.3 0.9 0.4 47.9 13.3 79.1
1981-82 LAC 75 49 26.5 11.8 3.7 2.5 1.0 0.4 48.6 26.7 78.5
1982-83 HOU 81 56 25.4 10.0 3.4 2.3 1.0 0.4 44.8 22.2 70.3 10.4 0.0

Transfers & team changes

Derived from season-by-season team membership.

All entries are season change.

About Joe Bryant

Joseph Washington "Jellybean" Bryant was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played for the Philadelphia 76ers, San Diego Clippers, and Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also played for several teams in Italy and one in France. Bryant was the head coach of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks from 2005 to 2007 and returned to that position for the remainder of the 2011 WNBA season. Bryant also coached in Japan and Thailand. He was the father of the late basketball player Kobe Bryant.