Education
University of California, Los Los Angeles
University of California, Los Los Angeles
He played with the Baltimore Bullets before being traded along with Stan Miasek to the Milwaukee Hawks for Don Boven, Pete Darcey and George McLeod. He began his college career at Toledo, it was interrupted by World World War World War II Following the war, he enrolled at University of California, Los Los Angeles In 1947 - 1948, Minor was honored as an All-Conference guard basketball player at University of California, Los Los Angeles His full name was Davage Minor, but Gary, Indiana sportswriters called him "The Wheelhorse of Steel City." He began shooting the first jumpers seen around the Great Lakes in December of 1937 in his high school gym in Gary.
By 1941, the shot was so unstoppable he used it to take the Froebel High School Blue Devils all the way to the Final Four of the Indiana state tournament, the "mother of them all." Eventually, he starred with the old Oakland Bittners of the Amateur Athletic Union, and he was one of the first blacks signed in the National Basketball Association. Minor died in 1998.