Rich Kelley
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Richard (Rich) Ryland Kelley (born March 23, 1953 in San Mateo, California) is a retired American basketball player. A center/power forward, a graduate of Woodside High School, played college basketball for Stanford, and in the NBA, for the New Orleans Jazz/Utah Jazz (1975-79 and 1983-85), New Jersey Nets (1979-80), Phoenix Suns (1980-82), Denver Nuggets (1982-83) and Sacramento Kings (1985-86).
He helped the Suns win the 1980-81 NBA Pacific Division and the Jazz win the 1983-84 NBA Midwest Division.
He currently ranks 94th on the Career Offensive Rebounds List (1,872).
In 11 seasons he played in 814 games and played 17,711 minutes, a 48.8 field goal percentage (2,166 for 4,435), 78.3 free throw percentage (1,867 for 2,384), 5,678 total rebounds (1,872 offensive, 3,806 defensive), 2,092 assists, 694 steals, 749 blocked shots, 2,613 personal fouls and 6,199 points.
He played for the US national team in the 1974 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.[1]
In 1989, he earned an MBA from Stanford Business School. There he was classmates with Gary Kremen and William Browder.
