George Reynolds (basketball)


George Reynolds is an American former professional basketball player who played collegiately for Houston before a brief stint in the NBA with the Detroit Pistons.

College Career

Reynolds transferred from Imperial Valley, a junior college, to Houston University in 1967.
He was part of the 1967–68 Cougars team which downed UCLA in the Game of the Century on 20 January 1968. He scored a team second-best 13 points in the 71-69 upset, also contributing good defending.
He was the starting guard for Houston, the No.1 collegiate team that season, and led the team in assists during the regular season with 157, also scoring 280 points. However, he was ruled ineligible for postseason play in March 1968, a few days before the NCAA Tournament, because of insufficient semester hours at Imperial Valley.
Houston would lose 69-101 to UCLA in the tournament semi-finals, with team mate Don Chaney crediting Reynolds' absence as decisive.
He again led Houston in assists during the 1968-69 season, also contributing 13 points per game in his senior year.

Professional career

He was drafted in the ninth round of the 1969 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons, he signed with the team in June of that year. He played only 10 games for the Pistons during the 1969–70 NBA season before being waived in mid-December
He played for the Swiss Alpines of the European Professional Basketball League during the league's only season in early 1975.