Jackie Robinson (basketball, born 1955)

For the 1948 Summer Olympics basketball player named Robert "Jackie" Robinson, see Jackie Robinson (basketball, born 1927).
Jackie Robinson
Personal information
Born (1955-05-20) May 20, 1955
Los Angeles, California
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight 210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
High school Morningside (Inglewood, California)
College UNLV (1973–1978)
NBA draft 1978 / Round: 4 / Pick: 67th overall
Selected by the Houston Rockets
Playing career 1978–1985
Position Small forward
Number 22, 9, 30, 8
Career history
1978–1979 Las Vegas Dealers (WBA)
1979 Seattle SuperSonics
1980 Detroit Pistons
1981 Chicago Bulls
1981–1982 Maine Lumberjacks (CBA)
1982–1983 Rapident Livorno (Italy)
1983–1984 Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel)
1984–1985 Espanyol (Spain)
Career highlights and awards
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Jackie Robinson (born May 20, 1955) is an American former professional basketball player.

A 6'6" forward from UNLV, Robinson played in the NBA from 1978 to 1982 as a member of the Seattle SuperSonics, Detroit Pistons, and Chicago Bulls. He averaged 3.8 points per game in his NBA career and won an NBA Championship with Seattle in 1979. Afterwards Robinson played five years in Europe, and upon retirement held executive positions in several Las Vegas companies that worked in retail, real estate, construction, credit, and the food and beverage industries. He was a one-time owner of the Las Vegas Silver Bandits of the defunct International Basketball League,[1] and the Las Vegas Slam of the American Basketball Association.[2][3]

Robinson is currently working to build in Las Vegas the All Net Resort and Arena, an $1.4 billion hotel, shopping and arena complex that could attract an NBA expansion team to Nevada. The project broke ground on October 2014, but construction will only begin by 2015 given Robinson is still negotiating development issues with Clark County.[4]


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