"There's nobody in the NBA that can guard anybody one-on-one" - Pete Maravich knew that defense wins championships in the NBA ...

Shaquille O'Neal was amazed by what Pistol Pete Maravich could pull off on the court, calling him the first white guy that ...

Pete Maravich (23) gets a boost from players and fans after he broke the all-time scoring record in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday night, Jan. 28, 1979.

BATON ROUGE -- Before there was Stephen Curry and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, there was Pete Maravich. At least that's how former LSU basketball coaching legend Dale Brown sees it.

So that’s how Pete Maravich’s college career ended. After playing virtually every minute of every game, and averaging 38.1 shots per night, he sat courtside at the Garden as the Tigers fell ...

NBA Hall of Famer “Pistol Pete” Maravich was a spectacular showman who helped open up the game of basketball in the 1970s. After a legendary college career at Louisiana State, he played 10 ...

Maravich replaced Joe Caldwell, who had jumped to the American Basketball Association after the 1969-70 season. In any event, Pistol Pete made an immediate impact in his first season.

BATON ROUGE - Like Pete Maravich, Brian Hanlon was a talented basketball player in the 1970s. He won the MVP of the HYAA Community Basketball League in Holmdel, New Jersey, as an eighth-grader in ...

Pete Maravich drives on New York Knicks' Tom McMillen to score two of his 68 points for the New Orleans Jazz in a game at the Superdome on Feb. 25, 1977. (The Times-Picayune/File).

“From Pistol Pete.”) It was Maravich who created the prototype for Curry and Steve Nash and Trae Young — and every NBA guard who ever hoisted a jumper off the dribble from 25 feet.

Mark Kriegel argues, in this interesting if badly written biography, that Pete Maravich was a -- perhaps the -- seminal figure in the development of professional basketball as we know it.