The Great Andrew Gaze

Andrew Gaze is a six-time winner of the Gaze Medal, the award given to the top player on the Australian National Team, and a seven-time winner of the Andrew Gaze Trophy as the NBL’s most valuable player. That should tell you everything you need to know about Drewy’s status in the world of Aussie hoops: the man is absolute royalty. A six-foot-seven shooting guard, Gaze averaged 30.9 points per game over his 22-year NBL career (yes, you read that correctly). He scored 30-plus points per game for sixteen consecutive seasons between 1985 and 2000, including an NBL-record 44.1 points per game in 1987. He won fourteen scoring titles and made the All-NBL First Team a record fifteen straight times. He spent his entire NBL career with the Melbourne Tigers — who were coached for that duration by his legendary father, Lindsay Gaze — and led them to two NBL Championships in four Grand Final appearances. He played in five Olympics — 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 — and is the second leading scorer in Olympic basketball history and number three in the history of FIBA. <a href="https://medium.com/@hoopwriter/the-great-andrew-gaze-83879b345269?source=tag_recommended_feed---------233-85----------melbourne----------b97aa90b_a230_4526_8abb_a2e65f5b22ed-------">Website</a>