John Block (basketball)
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John William Block, Jr. (born April 16, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) is a retired American basketball player.
A 6'9" forward/center from the University of Southern California, Block spent 10 seasons in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers (1966–1967), San Diego Rockets (1967–1971), Milwaukee Bucks (1971–1972), Philadelphia 76ers (1972–1973), Kansas City-Omaha Kings (1973–1974), New Orleans Jazz (1974), and Chicago Bulls (1974–1976). Block had his statistically strongest season in 1967–68, when he averaged 20.2 points and 11.0 rebounds for the Rockets, who had just entered the NBA as an expansion team. Block went on to appear in the 1973 NBA All-Star Game, and he would register 7,106 total points and 3,965 total rebounds in his ten year career.
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