Bob Rule

Bob Rule
Tom Meschery (left), Bob Rule (center) and Wilt Chamberlain (right)
Personal information
Born (1944-06-29) June 29, 1944
Riverside, California
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Listed weight 220 lb (100 kg)
Career information
High school Riverside Polytechnic
(Riverside, California)
College
NBA draft 1967 / Round: 2 / Pick: 19th overall
Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics
Playing career 1967–1974
Position Power forward / Center
Number 45, 21
Career history
1967–1971 Seattle SuperSonics
1971–1972 Philadelphia 76ers
1972–1973 Cleveland Cavaliers
1974 Milwaukee Bucks
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points 7,007 (17.4 ppg)
Rebounds 3,333 (8.3 rpg)
Assists 594 (1.5 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Bobby Frank Rule (born June 29, 1944) is a retired American basketball player at center for the National Basketball Association's Seattle SuperSonics, Philadelphia 76ers, Cleveland Cavaliers, and briefly, the Milwaukee Bucks.[1]

Earlier in his college career, Rule played under the legendary Jerry Tarkanian, then head coach at Riverside Community College, as a member of two state championship teams. A second round pick in the 1967 NBA draft, Rule quickly became one of the stars of Seattle's expansion franchise.[2][3] Named to the 1967–68 NBA All-Rookie Team, Rule's 18.1 points per game average stood as the SuperSonics rookie record for forty seasons, until broken by Kevin Durant. His rebounding average of 9.5 is the second best ever by a SuperSonics rookie, behind only Pete Cross's 12.0 in the 1970–71 season. Also during his rookie season, Rule scored 47 points in a game against the Los Angeles Lakers — still a SuperSonics rookie record.

Rule's game grew stronger during the next two seasons. In the 1968–69 season, he averaged 24.0 points per game and 11.5 rebounds per game. In the 1969–70 season, he averaged 24.6 points per game and 10.3 rebounds per game, set a then-SuperSonics record of 49 points in a game against the Philadelphia 76ers, and played in the 1970 NBA All-Star Game.[3] In the 1970–71 season, Rule began the season averaging 29.8 points per game and 11.5 rebounds per game in his first four games before going down with a season-ending torn achilles tendon.[3] He never regained his All-Star form after his scoring fell to 15.1 PPG the following season and saw limited playing time thereafter. By 1974 his career was over.[1]

NBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

Regular season

Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG STL BLK PPG
1967–68 Seattle 82 29.6 .489 .658 9.5 1.2 – – 18.1
1968–69 Seattle 82 37.9 .469 .682 11.5 1.7 – – 24.0
1969–70 Seattle 80 37.0 .463 .714 10.3 1.8 – – 24.6
1970–71 Seattle 4 35.5 .480 .833 11.5 1.8 – – 29.8
1971–72 Seattle 16 15.2 .363 .535 3.4 .4 – – 7.1
1971–72 Philadelphia 60 33.1 .445 .695 8.0 1.8 – – 17.3
1972–73 Philadelphia 3 4.0 .000 – .7 .3 – – .0
1972–73 Cleveland 49 9.0 .382 .645 2.2 .8 – – 2.9
1973–74 Cleveland 26 20.8 .396 .739 4.0 1.8 .5 .4 7.2
1974–75 Milwaukee 1 11.0 .000 – .0 2.0 .0 .0 .0
Career 403 29.4 .461 .686 8.3 1.5 .4 .4 17.4
All-Star 1 13.0 .333 1.000 4.0 .0 – – 5.0

References

  1. 1 2 basketball-reference.com. "Bob Rule stats". Retrieved 2007-07-20.
  2. ↑ Andrieson, David (October 13, 2007). "Sonics ushered Seattle into the big time 40 years ago Saturday". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  3. 1 2 3 www.nba.com. "Seattle Supersonics History". Retrieved 2007-07-20.
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