Ken Boyd

Boyd was an all-around athlete at Frederick High in Maryland — he set a state high jump record as a senior — before starring at Boston University, where he made first-team all-Yankee Conference in 1974. The New Orleans Jazz took him in the ninth round of that year's draft, and he played six games for the team in 1974-75. In the Eastern League in 1977-78 he poured in 31.1 points a game for the Quincy Chiefs.

Boston University inducted him into its Athletics Hall of Fame in 1984. Boyd died on September 18, 2025, at 73.

HOW HE CAME & WENTNew Orleans took him 154th overall in the ninth round of 1974, in the franchise's first season, and waived him that November.

Full name

Kenneth W. Boyd, Sr.

New Orleans Jazz tenure

1974–75

Position

Forward

Born

1952

Died

2025

Height

6′5″ (196 cm)

Weight

194 lb (88 kg)

College

Boston University

Drafted

1974, 9th round (No. 154), New Orleans

Why this player is hard to find

Six games for the inaugural New Orleans Jazz before being waived in November 1974. No trading card of him was ever printed — only a single photograph is known. He died in September 2025, closing the set of anything he signed.