Andy Phillip

• Name — Andy Phillip • Height Ft — 6 • Height In — 2 • Weight Lb — 195 • Born — 7 March 1922 • Birthplace — Granite City, Illinois, U.S. • Died — 29 April 2001 • Place of death — Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. • High School — Granite City (Granite City, Illinois) • College — Illinois (1941–1943, 1946–1947) • Draft Year — 1947 • Draft Round — 5 • Draft Pick — 47 • Draft Team — Chicago Stags • Career Start — 1947 • Career End — 1958 • Career Position — Point guard / shooting guard • Career Number — 19, 7, 4, 14, 17 • Years1 — 1947– • Team1 — Chicago Stags • Years2 — start–start • Team2 — Philadelphia Warriors • Years3 — start– • Team3 — Fort Wayne Pistons • Years4 — start– • Team4 — Boston Celtics • Cyears1 — start • Cteam1 — St. Louis Hawks • Highlights — *NBA champion (1957) • 5× NBA All-Star (1951–1955) • 2× All-NBA Second Team (1952, 1953) • 2× NBA assists leader • Sporting News Player of the Year (1943) • 2× Consensus first-team All-American (1942, 1943) • Consensus second-team All-American (1947) • Stat1label — Points • Stat1value — 6,384 (9.1 ppg) • Stat2label — Rebound • Stat2value — 2,395 (4.4 rpg) • Stat3label — Assists • Stat3value — 3,759 (5.4 apg) • Hof Player — andy-phillip • Cbbaskhof Year — 2006

Phillip played in the first five NBA All-Star Games, and was twice named to the All-NBA Second Team. He was the first player to record 500 assists in a season, the first to reach the 1,000, 2,000, and 3,000 career assists milestones, and led the NBA in assists during the 1950–51 and 1951–52 seasons. Phillip reached the postseason every year he was in the league, and his teams made it to the NBA Finals during his final four seasons — twice with Fort Wayne and twice with Boston. The 1957 Boston team won the NBA Championship. Phillip was alleged by one of his Fort Wayne Pistons teammates, George Yardley, to have conspired with gamblers to throw the 1955 NBA Finals to the Syracuse Nationals. In the decisive seventh game, Phillip turned the ball over with three seconds remaining in the game, enabling Syracuse to win by one point, 92–91. After retiring from playing basketball, he coached the St. Louis Hawks for 10 games in 1958, posting a 6–4 record before he was fired. Phillip later coached the Chicago Majors of the American Basketball League. Phillip was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961. He was elected to the Illini Men's Basketball All-Century Team in 2004. In 2007, Phillip was voted one of the "100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament", recognizing his superior performance in his appearance in the tournament. Phillip died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, on April 29, 2001, aged 79. Sports writer Dan Manoyan wrote a book about Phillip and his Granite City High School basketball teammates, titled Men of Granite, in 2007. A film based on the book, directed by Dwayne Johnson-Cochran, began production in 2015.

• 1942, 1943, 1947 – First-team All-Big Ten • 1942 & 1943 First Team All-American • 1943 – National Player of the Year • 1943 – Sporting News National Player of the Year • 1961 – Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame • 1973 – Inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association's Hall of Fame as a player. • 2004 – Elected to the "Illini Men's Basketball All-Century Team". • 2006 – Inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame • 2007 – Named one of the 100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament. • September 13, 2008 – Honored jersey which hangs in the State Farm Center to show regard for being the most decorated basketball players in the University of Illinois' history.

• 1947 – Baseball All-American (First baseman)

• 1942, 1943 – University of Illinois Athlete of the Year • 2017 – Inducted into the Illinois Athletics Hall of Fame

• Season — Games — Points — PPG — Big Ten Record — Overall Record — Highlight • 1941–42 — 23 — 232 — 10.0 — Consensus 1st team All-American • 1942–43 — 18 — 305 — 16.9 — Big Ten and National Player of the Year • 1946–47 — 20 — 192 — 9.6 — Consensus 2nd team All-American • Totals — 61 — 729 — 12.0 — ' — '

• Year — Team — GP — MPG — FG% — FT% — RPG — APG — PPG • 1947–48 — Chicago — 32 — – —.336 —.583 — – — 2.3 — 10.8 • 1948–49 — Chicago — 60 — – —.348 —.676 — – — 5.3 — 12.0 • 1949–50 — Chicago — 65 — – —.349 —.704 — – — 5.8 — 11.7 • 1950–51 — Philadelphia — 66 — – —.399 —.751 — 6.8 — 6.3* — 11.2 • 1951–52 — Philadelphia — 66 — 44.4 —.366 —.753 — 6.6 — 8.2* — 12.0 • 1952–53 — Philadelphia/Fort Wayne — 70 — 38.4 —.397 —.738 — 5.2 — 5.7 — 10.3 • 1953–54 — Fort Wayne — 71 — 38.1 —.375 —.730 — 3.7 — 6.3 — 10.6 • 1954–55 — Fort Wayne — 64 — 36.4 —.371 —.692 — 4.5 — 7.7 — 9.6 • 1955–56 — Fort Wayne — 70 — 29.7 —.365 —.563 — 3.7 — 5.9 — 5.8 • 1956–57† — Boston — 67 — 22.0 —.379 —.642 — 2.7 — 2.5 — 4.4 • 1957–58 — Boston — 70 — 16.6 —.355 —.592 — 2.3 — 1.7 — 3.4 • Career — 701 — 32.3 —.368 —.695 — 4.4 — 5.4 — 9.1

• Year — Team — GP — MPG — FG% — FT% — RPG — APG — PPG • 1948 — Chicago — 5 — – —.283 —.714 — – —.8 — 7.2 • 1949 — Chicago — 2 — – —.389 — 1.000 — – — 6.0 — 19.5 • 1950 — Chicago — 2 — – —.259 —.769 — – — 6.0 — 12.0 • 1951 — Philadelphia — 2 — – —.400 —.500 — 7.5 — 7.0 — 7.5 • 1952 — Philadelphia — 3 — 40.7 —.421 —.792 — 4.7 — 7.3 — 11.7 • 1953 — Fort Wayne — 8 — 41.1 —.338 —.667 — 4.0 — 3.8 — 10.3 • 1954 — Fort Wayne — 4 — 34.0 —.342 —.750 — 3.0 — 4.3 — 8.8 • 1955 — Fort Wayne — 11 — 40.5 —.323 —.850 — 5.5 — 7.1 — 8.5 • 1956 — Fort Wayne — 10 — 17.3 —.333 —.440 — 2.6 — 3.5 — 2.9 • 1957† — Boston — 10 — 12.8 —.364 —.400 — 2.0 — 1.7 — 2.2 • 1958 — Boston — 10 — 9.1 —.238 —.778 — 1.4 —.7 — 1.7 • Career — 67 — 25.4 —.330 —.700 — 3.3 — 3.7 — 6.4