Joe Pace
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| Personal information | |
| Born | December 18, 1953 New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
| Listed weight | 220 lb (100 kg) |
| Career information | |
| College | Coppin State |
| NBA Draft | 1976 / Round: 2 / Pick: 31st overall |
| Selected by the Washington Bullets | |
| Pro career | 1976–1981 |
| Career history | |
| 1976–1978 | Washington Bullets |
| 1979–1981 | Scavolini Pesaro (Italy) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| Stats at NBA.com | |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Joe Pace (born December 18, 1953 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) is a retired American basketball player with the NBA's Washington Bullets. A 6'10" center from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Coppin State University, he played from 1976 to 1978 and averaged 3.2 points per game. Pace won a league championship with the Bullets in 1978. On August 8, 1978, he was signed as a free agent with the Boston Celtics, but he never played a regular season game for the team. As of May 2008 he resided at a homeless shelter in Seattle, Washington.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Raley, Dan (May 15, 2008), "From NBA glory to homeless shelter", The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, http://www.seattlepi.com/local/363308_pace16.html
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