COVINGTON, La. — Former LSU basketball participant Josh Maravich, son of late Corridor of Fame basketball participant Pete Maravich, has died at age 42, the college introduced Saturday evening.
He died at dwelling on Friday, the LSU assertion stated. No explanation for demise has been launched.
Josh Maravich was a reserve for LSU — which performs dwelling video games within the Pete Maravich Meeting Middle — from the 2001-02 to 2004-05 seasons below then-coach John Brady.
For the youthful Maravich, it was a childhood dream to play for LSU, the place his father set the boys’s NCAA Division I scoring report of three,667 factors between 1967 and 1970.
“I needed to return right here for my dad to make him proud,” Josh Maravich stated in a 2005 article in The Each day Reveille, the LSU pupil newspaper. “I knew I wasn’t going to be a star participant, however for me being a walk-on was what I all the time needed to do.”
Pete Maravich was a prolific scorer throughout an NBA profession that was minimize brief in 1980 by lingering results of a significant knee harm a few years prior.
In 1988, at age 40, he died from a coronary heart situation that had gone undetected.
Earlier this 12 months, he was again within the headlines when his Division I scoring mark — which went unmatched by any males’s or ladies’s participant for greater than half a century — was surpassed by Iowa star Caitlin Clark (3,951 factors).
In 2022, when LSU unveiled a bronze statue of Pete Maravich exterior its basketball facility, sculptor Brian Hanlon credited Josh Maravich and his older brother Jaeson Maravich with the concept to depict their father — who was identified for his showmanship and creativity — making a behind-the-back cross.