Winging west from Kentucky, William “Bird” Averitt once soared majestically for the Pepperdine basketball team. These days, he rarely leaves his nest. The nation’s leading scorer during the 1972-73 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- William "Bird" Averitt, a Kentucky native who helped the Kentucky Colonels win the 1975 American Basketball Association title, died Saturday morning at age 68, a family ...

William “Bird” Averitt probably won’t be remembered as one of the all-time great basketball players in Kentucky. But that’s not to say he wasn’t. Today at 63 he lives in Hopkinsville, occasionally ...

The Brooklyn Nets have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over the course of their history since the franchise was founded in 1967 as a charter member of the American Basketball ...