STATISTICS & HISTORY
Rocky Valvano was a high school basketball star at Newtown High School in Queens, New York, nicknamed the “Corona Comet.) In later years, Valvano was a longtime high school coach and athletic director in Queens. His son Jim Valvano was a successful college basketball coach. While the head coach at North Carolina State, his team won the 1983 NCAA Championship.
| ROCKY VALVANO | Height: | 6:00 | Weight: | 160 | College: | Savage’36 | |||||
| Rocco Anthony Valvano | Born: May 29, 1914 | Died: Mar 27, 1985 | Hometown: | Queens, NY | |||||||
| Father of College Coach Jim Valvano | REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1932-33 | Corena AC | Indep | |||||||||
| 1935-36 | Savage | College | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | New York | ABL | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 3.0 | ||||
| 1939-40 | New York | ABL | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2.7 | ||||
| 1940-41 | New York | ABL | Injured – Did Not Play | ||||||||
| 1941-42 | Jamaica Indians | QBL | |||||||||
| 1943-44 | Brooklyn | ABL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2.0 | ||||
| 1946-47 | Long Island-Brooklyn | NYNJ | 3 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 3.3 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 9 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 2.7 | ||||||