Johnny High
American basketball player
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| Intro | American basketball player | ||||||
| A.K.A. | Johnny Harold High | ||||||
| A.K.A. | Johnny Harold High | ||||||
| Places | United States of America | ||||||
| was | Athlete Basketball player | ||||||
| Work field | Sports | ||||||
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| Birth | 25 April 1957, Birmingham, USA | ||||||
| Death | 13 June 1987Phoenix, USA (aged 30 years) | ||||||
| Star sign | Taurus | ||||||
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Johnny Harold "Sky" High (April 25, 1957 – June 13, 1987) was an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the NBA. He spent four seasons with Phoenix and missed only one game in his first three years.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, High attended high school at Birmingham's Jones Valley High School. He went on to play college basketball at Lawson State Community College and University of Nevada and was selected by Phoenix in the second round of the 1979 NBA draft. As of February 2018, he is the last Nevada Wolf Pack player to achieve a triple double in a game. During an NBA game against Washington on January 28, 1981, High recorded nine steals.
High died in an early-morning automobile accident on June 13, 1987 in Phoenix, Arizona.