Slater Nelson "Dugie" Martin (1926-2012)

    Slater Martin was an American professional basketball player and coach who was a playmaking guard for 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born in Elmina, Walker County, Texas and was an alumnus of Jefferson Davis High School in Houston, where he led his school to two state basketball championships in 1942 and 1943. He was also a graduate of University of Texas at Austin, where he set a scoring record in 1949 with 49 points in a game for the Longhorns against Texas Christian University. Throughout his career with the Longhorns, he averaged 12.7 points per game. Martin was one of the NBA's best defensive players in the 1950s, playing for the George Mikan-led Minneapolis Lakers that won four NBA championships between 1950 and 1954. 

    In 1956, he joined Bob Pettit's St. Louis Hawks and won another NBA title in 1958. He would go on to play in seven NBA All-Star Games in his career. Martin was head coach of the Houston Mavericks of the American Basketball Association in the 1967-68 season and part of 1968-69, and led the Mavericks into the 1968 ABA Playoffs. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on May 3, 1982 in Springfield, Massachusetts. His jersey number 15 was retired by the University of Texas on January 31, 2009, making him only the second Longhorn basketball player to have his number retired. He died of a brief undisclosed illness on October 18, 2012, in Houston, Texas, aged 86.

Section 2A
Memorial Oaks Cemetery
Houston

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