Jim Nolan (basketball)

James S. Nolan was an American professional basketball player. Nolan was selected in the second round of the 1949 BAA Draft by the Philadelphia Warriors. He played for the Warriors for five games in the 1949–50 NBA season and recorded totals of eight points and four assists. He played college basketball and football at Georgia Institute of Technology. He later returned to Georgia and started a coaching career leading the Tech Freshman Basketball team from 1955 to 1957, then became the Lanier football coach in the early 1960’s. He is a member of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame.

9 June 1927

Born on the same birth day (9 June): Brian Taylor (basketball) • Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski • Gloria Reuben • Grant Marshall • Harry DeBaecke • Heather Mitts • Jaan Mölder • Jim McDonald (halfback) • Johann Andreas Herbst • John Gillespie Magee Jr. • Jon Lord • LaSirena69 • Michael Mates • Nandini Satpathy • Nell Dunn • Nicholas Lloyd • Paul Hutchison (English cricketer) • Robert Kerr (athlete) • Sara Isaković • Skip James • Sonam Kapoor • Trevor Bolder • Uzi Hitman

Born in the same month (June 1927): Antal Róka • Bob Keeshan • Claudio Gilberto Froehlich • Correlli Barnett • Henning Carlsen • Herbert Lichtenfeld • James B. Edwards • John W. O'Malley • Johnny Orr (basketball, born 1927) • Lin Yang-kang • Marie Thérèse Killens • Paul Eddington • Pierre Perrault • Robert Kroetsch • Ross Andru • Simin Behbahani • Slim Dusty