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RANKING THE REBELS: 37 – Jimmie Baker

JIMMIE BAKER

Years: 1972 to 1974

Career highlights:

■ Scored 941 points in 51 games for a career average of 18.4, sixth best in UNLV history.

■ Averaged 22.3 points in 1972-73 and had 424 rebounds, the No. 2 total for a single season.

■ Holds Rebels rebounding average records for a season (15.1) and career (12.8).

■ Had a 40-point game in 1972 and a single-game record 26 rebounds in 1973.

Quotable: “Baker was probably as talented as anybody we’ve ever had here, except for Larry Johnson. But he was goofy. We traded Jimmie to Hawaii for Boyd Batts, the only trade in college history.” — Jerry Tarkanian, former UNLV coach

After UNLV: Selected by Philadelphia in the third round of the 1975 NBA Draft, and played for the Kentucky Colonels in the American Basketball Association.

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