{{short description|American retired basketball player (born 1949)}} {{For|the New Zealand rugby league footballer|Kurtis Rowe}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Curtis Rowe | image = Curtis Rowe.jpg | width = | caption = Rowe in his senior year at UCLA | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 7 | weight_lb = 225 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|07|02}} | birth_place = Bessemer, Alabama, U.S. | high_school = John C. Fremont<br />(Los Angeles, California) | college = UCLA (1968–1971) | draft_year = 1971 | draft_round = 1 | draft_pick = 11 | draft_team = Detroit Pistons | career_start = 1971 | career_end = 1979 | career_number = 18, 41 | career_position = Power forward | years1 = {{nbay|1971|start}}–{{nbay|1975|end}} | team1 = Detroit Pistons | years2 = {{nbay|1976|start}}–{{nbay|1978|end}} | team2 = Boston Celtics | highlights = * NBA All-Star ({{nasg|1976}}) * 3× NCAA champion (1969–1971) * Consensus second-team All-American (1971) * 2× First-team All-Pac-8 (1969, 1971) * Second-team All-Pac-8 (1970) * First-team ''Parade'' All-American (1967) * California Mr. Basketball (1967) | stats_league = NBA | stat1label = Points | stat1value = 6,873 (11.6 ppg) | stat2label = Rebounds | stat2value = 4,264 (7.2 rpg) | stat3label = Assists | stat3value = 932 (1.6 apg) }}
'''Curtis Rowe Jr.''' (born July 2, 1949) is an American former professional basketball player.
A 6'7" forward from UCLA, Rowe was drafted by the Dallas Chaparrals in the 1971 ABA Draft and by the Detroit Pistons in the first round of the 1971 NBA draft.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071109100257/http://www.databasebasketball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=ROWECU01 DatabaseBasketball.com Curtis Rowe page]}}</ref> Rowe opted to sign with Detroit and the NBA.
Rowe played eight seasons (1971–1979) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Detroit Pistons and the Boston Celtics. He averaged 11.6 points per game in his career and appeared in the 1976 NBA All-Star Game.
At UCLA, he was a member of three national championship teams coached by John Wooden: 1969, 1970 and 1971. He was one of only 4 players to have started on 3 NCAA championship teams; the others were all teammates at UCLA: Lew Alcindor, Henry Bibby and Lynn Shackelford.
In 1993, Rowe was inducted to the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.
== NBA career statistics == {{NBA player statistics legend}}
=== Regular season === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;" !Year !Team !GP !MPG !FG% !FT% !RPG !APG !STL !BLK !PPG |- | style="text-align:left;" |1971–72 | style="text-align:left;" |Detroit |'''82''' |32.5 |.460 |.669 |8.5 |1.2 |– |– |11.3 |- | style="text-align:left;" |1972–73 | style="text-align:left;" |Detroit |81 |37.1 |'''.519''' |.642 |'''9.4''' |2.1 |– |– |'''16.1''' |- | style="text-align:left;" |1973–74 | style="text-align:left;" |Detroit |'''82''' |30.5 |.494 |.698 |6.3 |1.7 |'''.6''' |.4 |10.7 |- | style="text-align:left;" |1974–75 | style="text-align:left;" |Detroit |'''82''' |34.0 |.483 |'''.753''' |7.1 |1.5 |'''.6''' |.5 |12.4 |- | style="text-align:left;" |1975–76 | style="text-align:left;" |Detroit |80 |'''37.5''' |.468 |.737 |8.7 |'''2.3''' |'''.6''' |'''.6''' |16.0 |- | style="text-align:left;" |1976–77 | style="text-align:left;" |Boston |79 |27.7 |.498 |.708 |7.1 |1.4 |.3 |'''.6''' |10.1 |- | style="text-align:left;" |1977–78 | style="text-align:left;" |Boston |51 |17.9 |.451 |.742 |4.0 |.9 |.3 |.2 |6.1 |- | style="text-align:left;" |1978–79 | style="text-align:left;" |Boston |53 |23.1 |.436 |.693 |4.6 |1.3 |.3 |.2 |6.7 |- class="sortbottom" | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Career |590 |31.0 |.482 |.701 |7.2 |1.6 |.5 |.5 |11.6 |- class="sortbottom" | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |All-Star |1 |8.0 |.000 |.500 |2.0 |.0 |– |– |1.0 |}
=== Playoffs === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;" !Year !Team !GP !MPG !FG% !FT% !RPG !APG !STL !BLK !PPG |- | style="text-align:left;" |1974 | style="text-align:left;" |Detroit |7 |32.7 |.481 |.615 |7.4 |1.6 |.4 |.9 |8.3 |- | style="text-align:left;" |1975 | style="text-align:left;" |Detroit |3 |38.3 |'''.515''' |.526 |'''8.7''' |'''5.0''' |.3 |'''1.7''' |14.7 |- | style="text-align:left;" |1976 | style="text-align:left;" |Detroit |'''9''' |'''38.4''' |.477 |'''.853''' |7.8 |2.9 |'''.7''' |.9 |'''15.0''' |- | style="text-align:left;" |1977 | style="text-align:left;" |Boston |'''9''' |26.3 |.471 |.759 |8.0 |1.1 |.1 |.4 |9.6 |- class="sortbottom" | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Career |28 |33.1 |.481 |.726 |7.9 |2.2 |.4 |.8 |11.5 |}
== Personal life == Curtis Rowe is the father of comedian Cameron Rowe.<ref>{{Citation |title=Cam Rowe on true Curtis Rowe stories |url=https://www.youtube.com/shorts/null |language=en |access-date=2022-03-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-02-26 |title=Interview with Detroit Comedian Cam Rowe |url=https://detroitcomedyscene.com/interview-detroit-comedian-cam-rowe/ |access-date=2022-03-05 |website=Detroit Comedy Scene |language=en-US}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Basketballstats|bbr=r/rowecu01}}
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