Cleo Hill

(1938-2015)

American basketball player

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Cleo Hill (April 24, 1938 – August 10, 2015) was an American professional basketball player who was selected by the St. Louis Hawks in the first round (8th overall) of the 1961 NBA draft. A 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) guard from Newark, New Jersey and the Winston-Salem State University, Hill played in the National Basketball Association for one season with the Hawks, in 1961–62, averaging 5.5 points in 58 games. Hill was only the fifth African-American from an historically Black college and university to be taken in the first round of an NBA draft.

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Born	Cleo Hill 24 May 1938 Newark, New Jersey, United States
Died	10 August 2015 (aged 77) City of Orange, New Jersey, United States
Zodiac	Gemini
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