Keith Erickson

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Keith Raymond Erickson (born April 19, 1944 in San Francisco, California) is a retired American basketball player. He was a 6'5" forward/guard.

Erickson played college basketball at UCLA, where he was a starter on two NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship teams (1964 and 1965). He also played college volleyball and baseball. In 1965, he was selected by the San Francisco Warriors in the third round of the NBA Draft, and he embarked upon a 12-season NBA career as a member of the Warriors, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Phoenix Suns. He was a reserve on the 1971-72 Lakers team which won a then-record 69 regular season wins and the NBA Championship.

Erickson retired in 1977 with career totals of 7,251 points and 3,449 rebounds. Afterwards, he served as an announcer for The NBA on CBS.

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