| Johnny Neumann was born September 11, 1951 in Memphis, Tennessee and played almost two years in 1970 & 71 at Ole Miss. Neumann, who was nicknamed “Johnny Reb,” averaged 40.1 points a game as a sophomore for Ole Miss and he led the nation in scoring that year. Johnny was hyped as the next Pete Maravich. In fact Neumann was drafted before he even finished his sophmore season, by signing a multi-million dollar deal at age 19 with the ABA team, Memphis Pros in 1972. Johnny played with five more ABA teams from 1972 to 1976, including Memphis Tams, Utah Stars, Indiana Pacers, Virginia |
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Squires, and Kentucky Colonels. Neumann played from 1977-1978 in the NBA for Buffalo Braves, Los Angeles Lakers, and Indiana Pacers. Neumann played the rest of his career in Europe for Italy and Germany, where he found another basketball passion: coaching. Johnny Neumann has coached pro basketball ever since, in Germany, Greece, Cypress, Belgium, Italy, Kuwait and Lebanon as well as the CBA and IBA. Neumann scored over 6,022 points in his professional basketball career, over twice as much as the next best Rebel Elston Turner, who scored 2,397 and four times more than Rebel Gerald Glass’s 1,553 pro-points.
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