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Pat Cummings

A Johnstown, Pennsylvania schoolboy star, Cummings still holds Cincinnati's single-season field goal percentage record at .642 and left second only to Oscar Robertson in career field goals made. Over twelve NBA years he gave the Mavericks and Knicks four straight seasons of better than 12 points and eight rebounds, and he started the Miami Heat's first-ever game in 1988.

Utah was the last stop: after a 1990–91 season in Italy, he played four games for the Jazz and was waived at 34. Inducted into Cincinnati's athletics Hall of Fame in 1990, Cummings died in June 2012, two weeks short of his 56th birthday.

HOW HE CAME & WENTAfter a spell in Italy he finished his career with a four-game stint for the Jazz in 1990-91.

Utah Jazz tenure
1990–91
Position
Forward
Born
1956, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Died
2012
Height
6′9″ (206 cm)
Weight
231 lb (105 kg)
College
Cincinnati
Drafted
1979, 2nd round, Milwaukee
Why this player is hard to find
Thirteen NBA seasons and four games for Utah in his last one, at 34. He died in 2012, but the long career means signed cards exist in quantity — this position should not stay open.
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With the Jazz

PAT CUMMINGS · 1990–91 · PER GAME
SEASONTEAMGMPGPPGRPGAPGSPGBPGFG%3P%FT%
1990–91UTA46.53.81.30.00.00.0.667.700
JAZZ TOTAL1 SEASON46.53.81.20.00.00.0.667.700

Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗  ·  Wikipedia ↗

Did you know

PAT CUMMINGS · 4 NOTES
  • Milwaukee drafted him as a junior-eligible in 1978, the same year Boston used that rule to grab Larry Bird.
  • Teammates and the papers called him Cakes for his entire professional career.
  • His best season came with the 1984-85 Knicks at 15.8 points a game, sharing a frontcourt with Patrick Ewing and Bill Cartwright.
  • After a season in Italy and his final Utah games he settled in Loveland, Ohio, and worked several years in real estate.