{{Short description|American basketball player (1932–2025)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Whitey Bell | image = Whitey Bell.jpeg | width = | caption = | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 0 | weight_lb = 180 | birth_date = {{birth date|1932|09|13}} | birth_place = Monticello, Kentucky, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|09|03|1932|09|13}} | death_place = Hickory, North Carolina, U.S. | high_school = {{nowrap|Warsaw Community (Warsaw, Indiana)}} | college = NC State (1954–1958) | draft_year = 1958 | career_start = 1959 | career_end = 1963 | career_position = Guard | career_number = 15 | years1 = {{nbay|1959|end}}–{{nbay|1960|end}} | team1 = New York Knicks | years2 = 1961–1963 | team2 = San Francisco Saints | years3 = 1962 | team3 = Pittsburgh Rens | highlights = | profile = }}
'''William Hoyet Bell''' (September 13, 1932 – September 3, 2025) was an American basketball player.
Bell played collegiately for the North Carolina State University. Bell averaged 14.2 points per game as a senior for NC State during the 1957–58 season.
He played for the New York Knicks (1959–61) in the NBA for 36 games. Bell then played with the San Francisco Saints (1961–62) of the American Basketball League and briefly in 1962 with the Pittsburgh Rens of the ABL. On November 1, 1961, Bell scored 30 points in a game against the Kansas City Steers.
Bell died in Hickory, North Carolina on September 3, 2025, at the age of 92.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.caringcremations.net/obituaries/william-bell|title=William Hoyt "Whitey" Bell|website=Caring Cremations|accessdate=12 September 2025}}</ref>
==Career statistics== {{NBA player statistics legend}}
===NBA=== Source<ref name=bbr>{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bellwh01.html|title=Whitey Bell NBA stats|website=Basketball Reference|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|accessdate=22 December 2023}}</ref>
====Regular season==== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;" |- ! Year ! Team ! GP ! MPG ! FG% ! FT% ! RPG ! APG ! PPG |- |style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1959}} |style="text-align:left;"| New York | '''31''' || '''14.5''' || .378 || '''.651''' || '''2.8''' || '''1.8''' || '''5.4''' |- |style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1960}} |style="text-align:left;"| New York | 5 || 9.0 || '''.389''' || .333 || 1.4 || .2 || 3.0 |- class="sortbottom" |style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 36 || 13.7 || .379 || .630 || 2.6 || 1.6 || 5.1 |}
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{basketballstats|bbr=b/bellwh01|name=Whitey Bell}}
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