Basketball Legend "Pistol Pete" Maravich Shares His Life Story... Just Days Before His Death
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, just days before his death, the 40-year-old Maravich shared his story to a small audience about his life pursuing success and fame—until that pursuit brought him to his knees. This is the story of him coming to Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
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| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:46.2 | The podcast. This is our American Stories. |
| 0:49.7 | Pistol Pete Marevich is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in basketball |
| 0:53.9 | history. Also one of my personal hoops heroes. Marevich is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in basketball history. |
| 0:55.1 | Also one of my personal hoops heroes. |
| 0:58.0 | Maravich starred in college with the LSU Tigers while playing for his father, head coach |
| 1:02.4 | Press Marevich, with 3,667 points, and he averaged 44.2 points per game. |
| 1:10.7 | All of his accomplishments were achieved before the adoption of the three-point shot and the shot clock, |
| 1:16.1 | and despite being able to play varsity as a freshman under the NCAA rules. |
| 1:21.0 | That's crazy. |
| 1:22.6 | Maravich played 10 years in the NBA and is considered by many to be the best ball handler of all time. |
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