Ken Sears
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Ken Sears was the first basketball player to be featured on a Sports Illustrated cover, December 20, 1954.
Kenneth Robert Sears (born August 17, 1933 in Watsonville, California) is a retired American professional basketball player. He might be most for being the first basketball player to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
A 6'9" forward from Santa Clara University, Sears played eight seasons (1955-1961;1962-1964) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the New York Knicks and San Francisco Warriors. He averaged 13.9 points per game and 7.8 rebounds per game in his NBA career, appearing as an NBA All-Star in 1958 and 1959. Sears also led the NBA in field goal percentage twice (1959, 1960).
Sears spent the 1961-62 basketball season in the short-lived American Basketball League.
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