{{short description|American basketball player}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Lee Robbins | image = Lee Roy Robbins 1948.jpg | caption = Robbins in 1948 | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 3 | weight_lb = 175 | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|2|11}} | birth_place = Rockwall, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1968|4|8|1922|2|11}} | death_place = Billings, Montana, U.S. | high_school = Greeley (Greeley, Colorado) | college = Colorado (1940–1942, 1945–1947) | draft_year = 1947 | draft_league = BAA | career_start = 1947 | career_end = 1949 | career_number = 9, 7, 12 | career_position = Forward | years1 = 1947–1949 | team1 = Providence Steamrollers | highlights = }} '''Lee Roy Robbins''' (February 11, 1922 – April 8, 1968) was an American professional basketball player. He spent two seasons in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as a member of the Providence Steam Rollers (1947–1949). He attended the University of Colorado.
Robbins was found shot and killed in Billings, Montana on April 8, 1968.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lee R. Robbins obituary|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67181456/the-billings-gazette/|newspaper=Billings Gazette|date=April 10, 1968|page=14|via =Newspapers.com|access-date = January 8, 2021}} {{Open access}}</ref> Gary L. Quigg was convicted of killing Robbins after Robbins discovered him breaking into his car.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7917824/gary-quigg-convicted-in-murder-of-lee/|access-date=2022-09-03|date=1969-04-09|title=Quigg Found Guilty of Murder|publisher=Great Falls Tribune}}</ref> Quigg was sentenced to life in prison<ref>{{cite web|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/montana/supreme-court/1970/11743-0.html|access-date=2022-09-03|date=1970-04-30|title=State v. Quigg|publisher=Supreme Court of Montana}}</ref> but was paroled in 2006. Quigg had previously been released, but his parole had been revoked for drug and alcohol violations.<ref>{{cite web |date=2015-10-15 |title=Convicted murderer arrested for parole violations |url=https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2015/10/15/convicted-murderer-arrested-parole-violations/74011028/ |access-date=2022-09-03 |publisher=Great Falls Tribune}}</ref>
==BAA career statistics== {| class="toccolours" style="font-size: 90%; white-space: nowrap;" |- ! colspan="6" style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid #aaa;"| Legend |- | style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"| GP | Games played | style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"| FG% | style="padding-right: 8px" | Field-goal percentage |- | style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"| FT% | Free-throw percentage | style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"| APG | Assists per game |- | style="background:#f2f2f2; border:1px solid black;"| PPG | Points per game | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | '''Bold''' | Career high |- |}
===Regular season=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;" |- ! Year ! Team ! GP ! FG% ! FT% ! APG ! PPG |- |style="text-align:left;"| 1947–48 | style="text-align:left;"| Providence | '''31''' || .277 || .548 || .2 || '''6.3''' |- |style="text-align:left;"| 1948–49 | style="text-align:left;"| Providence | 16 || '''.360''' || '''.647''' || '''.8''' || 1.8 |- |style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 47 || .284 || .564 || .4 || 4.8 |- |}
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