Jack Molinas

Jack Molinas

Personal information
Born	(1931-10-31)October 31, 1931 New York City, U.S.
Died	August 3, 1975(1975-08-03) (aged 43) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight	200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High school	Stuyvesant (New York City)
College	Columbia (1950–1953)
NBA draft	1953: 1st round, 3rd overall pick
Selected by the Fort Wayne Pistons
Playing career	1953–1962
Position	Small forward / power forward
Number	6
Coaching career	1960–1961
Career history
As player:
1953–1954	Fort Wayne Pistons
1954–1959	Williamsport Billies
1960–1961	Hazleton Hawks
1961–1962	Wilkes-Barre Barons
As coach:
1960–1961	Hazleton Hawks
Career highlights and awards
NBA All-Star (1954) EPBL Most Valuable Player (1956) 5× All-EPBL First Team (1955–1958, 1960) 2× All-EPBL Second Team (1959, 1961)
Career NBA statistics
Points	370 (11.6 ppg)
Rebounds	228 (7.1 rpg)
Assists	51 (1.6 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference

Jacob Louis Molinas (October 31, 1931 – August 3, 1975)^[1] was an American professional basketball player, playing first for Columbia University, in New York City, and later briefly in the early National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Fort Wayne Pistons (then in Fort Wayne, Indiana and later relocated to Detroit, Michigan). He also played for multiple minor league franchises and teams after his brief NBA stint (mostly out in Pennsylvania, although he would play in the summer leagues, sometimes with other players that had controversial pasts as well) during the 1950s and early 1960s. During that period of time, he supposedly became an associate of the Genovese crime family due to his association with a couple of people there, and he later became a key figure in one of the most wide-reaching point shaving cheating scandals in college basketball history.