George Jost Hauptfuhrer Jr. (August 1, 1926 – August 2, 2013) was an American basketball player who, despite being taken third overall in the 1948 BAA Draft after a collegiate career at

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and Harvard, decided to pursue a career in law. Hauptfuhrer grew up in

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, and attended

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. He then enrolled at Louisville where he played

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on the basketball team for two seasons; while attending he was in a

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training program. Hauptfuhrer transferred to Harvard for his final two years of college; while there, he played on the football, basketball, and track and field teams. He was named an all-

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selection in basketball during his senior year in 1947–48. In just the second-ever Basketball Association of America draft, Hauptfuhrer was selected third overall by the Boston Celtics. Instead of pursuing a professional basketball career, he decided to enroll at the

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and became a lawyer.

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