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Covington, La. — Former LSU basketball player Josh Maravich, son of the late Hall of Fame basketball player Pete Maravich, has died at age 42, the university announced Saturday night.
He died Friday at home, an LSU statement said. No cause of death has been released.
Josh Maravich was a reserve for LSU — which plays home games at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center — from the 2001-02 to 2004-05 seasons under then-coach John Brady.
For the younger Maravich, it was a childhood dream to play for LSU, where his father set the men’s NCAA Division I scoring record with 3,667 points between 1967 and 1970.
“I wanted to come here to make my dad proud,” Josh Maravich said in a 2005 article in the LSU student newspaper The Daily Reveille. “I knew I wasn’t going to be a star player, but for me to be a walk-on is what I always wanted to do.”
Pete Maravich was a prolific scorer in an NBA career that was cut short a few years ago by a major knee injury in 1980.
In 1988, at the age of 40, he died of an undiagnosed heart condition.
Earlier this year, she returned to the headlines when her Division I scoring mark — unmatched by any player, male or female, for more than half a century — surpassed Iowa star Caitlin Clark (3,951 points).
In 2022, when LSU unveiled a bronze statue of Pete Maravich outside its basketball facility, sculptor Brian Hanlon credited Josh Maravich and his older brother Jason Maravich with the idea to depict their father — known for his showmanship and creativity — behind the pass.
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