re: Pistol Pete Maravich died 27 years ago today.

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He lived with his parents on Chevelle between Old Hammond Hwy and LaSalle Ave. I grew up one block over and we would sit on our Schwinn Stingrays in his driveway and watch him shoot. And my parents would take us to the Cow Palace to watch him play as an LSU freshman on the freshman team which was packed and the place would clear out after it for the varsity game.

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Very cool!

Growing up my dad was my basketball coach and he had all kinds of tapes and stuff of Pete and made me sit through hours and hours of studying his game. It helped me alot though because I was a small white boy with no jumping skills

I learned the art of passing from pete though, 3 things I can do on a basketball court from studying Petes game is dribble drive, Pass and shoot 3s.