Bud Palmer

John Shove Palmer, known as Bud and born John Palmer Flynn in Hollywood, California on 14 September 1921, was an American professional basketball player who went on to a career as a sportscaster. He played for the New York Knicks in the first three seasons of the Basketball Association of America and led the club in scoring in its inaugural 1946-47 season. A schoolboy of about 1.63 metres at the Hun School of Princeton, he began using the jump shot to make up for his height, then grew to about 1.93 metres by the time he played college basketball at Princeton University, and he is considered one of the inventors of the jump shot. His college play was interrupted by enlistment in the United States Navy during the Second World War. After his playing days he worked as a sportscaster, served New York City for seven years as Chief of Protocol and Official Greeter under Mayor John Lindsay, modelled menswear and wrote as an advice columnist. He died at 91 on 19 March 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida.