I bet you didn’t know Pete Maravich’s dad played a season for the Pittsburgh Ironmen in 1947.

Pete Maravich (Born June 22nd,1947) was really one of the originators of modern day basketball in the fact that he paved the way for future guards with his abilities and skills that no one had ever seen before and the excitement that he brought to a game which hadn’t been witnessed ever by Americans. His style was of something else, bottled all of the essential elements in what it takes to be “perfect.” Pete had a sixth sense if you will, of knowing the game too well almost to the point of abusing it the same way he abused his opponents. Pete would look into your eyes and has been said to literally “sense the fear”. Look into his eyes and you see the pain, the torture that this soul has endured through everything that he has witnessed, felt, and caused. To some Pete Maravich seemed crazy to the point where he would be recommended help and to others he was just an individual doing what he had to survive in his era. This was Pete Maravich.

I bet you didn’t know Pete Maravich wasn’t supposed to live past the age of 8 years old.

Pete was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania which was known as an industrial town where the sky was always gray and the problems never seemed to fall short. Pete’s Father Press Maravich was an ABA player for the Pittsburg Ironmen where he played one season and put up averages of 4.6 points a game and played 51 games for the Ironmen before Pete arrived. Press Maravich had been said that he was one of the few coaches that ever really thought outside of the box in terms on coaching and methods so it may seem surprising that when Pete was learning Showtime basketball Press said he really had nothing to do with it. “I gave him the fundamentals, but the between-the-legs, behind-the-back, blind stuff Pete does, I never even thought of that.” Press worked Pete out to the max as just a Seven year old kid Press would make him work on his passing and dribbling skills from four to five hours a day. This is where it started for Pete as his journey was just beginning.

I bet you didn’t know that Pete Maravich is the leading NCAA point’s leader. Before the 3-point line was even invented.

You see this is where it started, eventually Pete would start bringing his basketball to school with him and whenever he would walk around town the basketball would be there right under him and with every bounce came closer to the fatal collapse. Pete surprised a lot of people when he was selected to his high school’s varsity team as just a freshman, where he exceeded to the point of becoming the team’s leading scorer. This was almost unheard of back in Pete’s era, for a kid to be playing with seniors on a basketball team. This was so popular that today there are movies dedicated to just the Freshman season of Pete Maravich and everything that he had to endure while playing, such as the threats from the older players about their playing time dramatically going down since the Pete Maravich takeover. Pete was living in a life and era just not made for him, and this was a perfect example of it. But through all of this he would continue to work himself to the bone almost to the point of physical suicide. The nets became his escape from the outside world that hated him so much and he knew that the hardwood w

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