Vester Marshall
Personal information | |
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Born | December 22, 1948 |
Died | January 5, 2023 (age 74) Shoreline WA |
Nationality | American |
Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Druid (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
College | Oklahoma (1968–1970) |
NBA draft | 1970: undrafted |
Position | Small forward |
Number | 45 |
Career history | |
1973–1974 | Seattle SuperSonics |
Stats at NBA.com | |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Vester Marshall (December 22, 1948 - January 5, 2023) was a retired professional basketball small forward who played one season in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Seattle SuperSonics during the 1973–74 season.
Biography
[edit]Marshall was born on December 22, 1948. He became a standout basketball player for the Druid High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he led his team to the state championship his first year. Marshall participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches along with Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He attended University of Oklahoma where his teammates included Garfield Heard and Clifford Ray. Coach John MacLeod removed Marshall from the basketball team for leading a racially motivated protest.
After graduating, he went to Mexico to play professional basketball. In December 1973 the Seattle SuperSonics waived Jim McDaniels and replaced him on the roster by Marshall who signed for the league minimum US$25,000 ($141,558.44 adjusted for inflation). He practices yoga and has been an instructor in Seattle, Washington. He was an assistant coach at Bellevue Community College for two years (1978–79). Marshall has been an ordained minister since 2006. In 2008, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote an article on Marshall where it stated he lived in a studio apartment in Seattle working as a street minister, herbalist and artist.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Raley, Dan. "Renaissance, man: Ex- Sonic savors revival as Belltown street minister". SeattlePI.com. Seattle, Washington: Hearst Seattle Media, LLC. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com
- 1948 births
- Living people
- American expatriate basketball people in Mexico
- American men's basketball players
- Basketball players from Alabama
- Junior college men's basketball coaches in the United States
- Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball players
- Seattle SuperSonics players
- Small forwards
- Undrafted NBA players
- American basketball biography, 1940s birth stubs