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The "Deadeye Dick" of the court, Jack is one of the game's finest shooters. In six years of pro activity, he has never finished with a shooting mark below 42 per cent. He led the league in field goal percentages in the 1958-59 season, hitting 465 of 1,028 for a .452 percentage. He was second in 1959-60, when only Wilt Chamberlain's 2707 points topped his 2338. He holds the record for most points scored in the Cincinnati Gardens, netting 59 points against Minneapolis on January 15, 1960.
In his third NBA season, White came off the bench 53 times for Coach Richie Adubato's Mavericks Dallas' first round pick in the 1989 NBA Draft, White (24) was one of eight players under the age of 26 on a young Mavericks squad in 1991-92.
Avdija's father, Zufer, steered him away from his first love, soccer, and toward the hardwood when the kiddo was 9 years old. "I wasn't tall," he told the Washington Post. "But I was the fastest in my hometown." The height would come and with it the attention of NBA scouts, who flocked to see the talented youngster at Maccabi Tel Aviv.
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