John Shove "Bud" Palmer (born John Palmer Flynn; September 14, 1921 – March 19, 2013) was an American professional

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player. He was a member of the

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during the team's first three seasons in the

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, and was the leading scorer in the team's inaugural 1946–47 season. Palmer is considered to be one of the inventors of the Born in

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, Palmer was the son of football player and actor Maurice Bennett "Lefty" Flynn and singer Blanche Palmer. He was nicknamed "Bud" due to being the budding image of his father; Palmer relinquished his father's surname from his own name when his parents divorced. Palmer was when he started playing basketball at

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, and started using the jump shot to compensate for his height. He grew a foot taller to by the time he began playing college basketball at

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, and played for three seasons before he enlisted in the U.S. Navy during After his NBA career ended, Palmer went on to have a successful career as a sportscaster. He was Chief of Protocol and Official Greeter for the City of New York for seven years during John Lindsay's administration. Palmer modeled menswear, advertised Vitalis hair tonic, and wrote as an

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'' magazine. Palmer died at 91 of metastatic

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in 2013 in

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