home login/register players heroes dennis johnson highest scoring games contact us


Paul Neumann
Share tweet me
Birthdate: 1/30/1938    
Height / Weight: 6' 1"  /  175 lbs. Position: G
College: Stanford

Basketball Historian Biography

A quick stepping guard out of Stanford University, Paul Neumann was one of the NBA leading playmakers all-thru the 1960s. Chosen in the 1959 NBA draft by the Syracuse Nationals, he joined the squad in 1961-62 after fullfilling military duty. 

Paul Neumann helped his teammates reached the playoffs in 2 different years with the Syracuse Nats in 1961-62 and 1962-63. And with the Philadelphia Warriors in 1963-64 and when the team moved to San Francisco for the NBA Champions San Francisco Warriors in 1966-67. In the SF Bay City he scored a career-best 14.4 points per game in 1965-66 and 13.9 ppg in 1966-67.

In '65-66 Paul Neumann made 343 field goals in 817 attempts, 265-of-317 FT for 951 regular season points. He scored 4,989 career points, made 1,827 FGM in 4,136 career attempts (FGA) and had 1,453 assists in 451 games. 

Regular Season Statistics
Year Team G MIN FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT% STL BLK TO Rebs AST PTS
61-62 SYR (NBA) 77 16.43 2.2-5.21 .429 0.0-0.0 .000 1.7-2.2 .773 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.5 2.3 6.20
62-63 SYR (NBA) 80 19.76 3.0-6.29 .471 0.0-0.0 .000 2.3-2.8 .815 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.5 2.8 8.19
63-64 PHI (NBA) 74 26.66 4.4-9.89 .443 0.0-0.0 .000 2.8-3.6 .789 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.3 3.9 11.60
64-65 PHI (NBA) 40 27.50 5.3-10.85 .491 0.0-0.0 .000 3.7-4.6 .804 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.6 3.5 14.35
64-65 SFW (NBA) 36 25.94 4.2-9.39 .450 0.0-0.0 .000 2.4-3.3 .723 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.7 2.6 10.83
64-65 total (NBA) 76 26.76 4.8-10.16 .473 0.0-0.0 .000 3.1-4.0 .772 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.6 3.1 12.68
65-66 SFW (NBA) 66 26.20 5.2-12.38 .420 0.0-0.0 .000 4.0-4.8 .836 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.2 2.8 14.41
66-67 SFW (NBA) 78 31.04 4.9-11.68 .424 0.0-0.0 .000 4.0-5.0 .800 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.5 4.4 13.90
8 years   451 24.40 4.1-9.2 .442 0.0-0.0 .0 3.0-3.7 .799 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.9 3.2 11.06



*note: Many thanks to databasebasketball.com for the original database of player stats. All player information displayed is as accurate as possible, however from time to time there may be omissions or inaccuracies, and we make no guarantees about their accuracy. Use at your own risk. Please contact us if you believe you have found an error.

 copyright © 2006 - 2014 basketballhistorian.com.
 www.baseballhistorian.com  ||  www.footballhistorian.com  ||  www.boxinghistorian.com
 www.bowlinghistorian.com  ||  Baseball Song of the Day  ||  www.crosstownclassic.com