Ex-LSU player Maravich, kid of Pete, passes away at 42

COVINGTON, La.– Former LSU basketball player Josh Maravich, boy of late Hall of Popularity basketball player Pete Maravich, has actually died at age 42, the university revealed Saturday night.He passed away at

home on Friday, the LSU declaration said. No cause of death has actually been released.Josh Maravich was a reserve for LSU– which plays home games in 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 bet LSU, where his daddy set the men’s NCAA Division I scoring record of 3,667 points in between 1967 and 1970. LSU’s Josh Maravich, left, shakes hands with coach John Brady as his mother, Jackie Maravich, center, watches during Senior Day occasions before LSU’s game versus Vanderbilt on March 5, 2005. AP Photo/Bill Feig “I wanted to come here for my papa to make him proud,”Josh Maravich said in a 2005 short article in The Daily Reveille, the LSU trainee newspaper. “I knew I wasn’t going to be a star player, however for me being a walk-on was what I constantly wished to do.”Pete Maravich was a respected scorer during an NBA career that was interrupted in 1980 by lingering results of a major knee injury a number of years prior.In 1988, at age 40, he passed away from a heart condition that had actually gone undetected.Earlier this year, he was

back in the headlines when his Department I scoring mark– which went unequaled by any men’s or females’s player for more than half a century– was exceeded by Iowa star Caitlin Clark(3,951 points). In 2022, when LSU unveiled a bronze statue of Pete Maravich outside its basketball center, carver Brian Hanlon credited Josh Maravich and his older sibling

Jaeson Maravich with the idea to depict their father– who was understood for his showmanship and creativity– making a behind-the-back pass.