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| career_end = 1972
| career_number = 54
| career_position = [[Power forward (basketball)|Power forward]] / [[Center (basketball)|
| years1 = {{nbay|1964|start}}–{{nbay|1971|end}}
| team1 = [[Philadelphia 76ers]]
| highlights =
* [[NBA champion]] ({{nbafy|1967}})
* [[NBA All-Star]] ({{nasg|1965}})
* [[NBA All-Rookie First Team]] ({{nbay|1964|end}})
* 2× [[Chuck Taylor Most Valuable Player Award|NAIA tournament MVP]] ([[1963 NAIA basketball tournament|1963]], [[1964 NAIA basketball tournament|1964]])
* No. 54 [[Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros men's basketball|retired by UTRGV Vaqueros]]
| stat1label = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
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'''Lucious Brown Jackson''' (October 31, 1941 – October 12, 2022), also known as '''Luke Jackson''', was an American professional [[basketball]] player. A [[power forward (basketball)|power forward]] and [[center (basketball)|center]], he played for the [[Philadelphia 76ers]] of the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) from 1964 to 1972. He was named an [[NBA All-Star]] in 1965, and won an [[NBA championship]] with the 76ers in 1967. Jackson also played for the [[United States national basketball team|U.S. national team]] in the [[Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Summer Olympics]].
==Biography==
===Amateur career===
Jackson was born on October 31, 1941, in [[San Marcos, Texas]],<ref>{{Cite sports-reference |title= Luke Jackson {{!}} Lucious Brown Jackson |url= https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jackslu01.html |accessdate= October 16, 2022 }}</ref> and his family moved to [[Bastrop, Louisiana]], when he was in high school because San Marcos would not allow him to play for the all-white basketball team.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48617710/lucious-jackson-signs-with-pam-am/ |title=Lucious Jackson signs with Pam AM |newspaper=[[Valley Morning Star]] |via=Newspapers.com |date=April 13, 2020 |accessdate=October 14, 2022}}</ref> He graduated from Morehouse High School in Bastrop.<ref name=panam/><ref name=gold>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image
Jackson played for the [[United States men's national basketball team]] at the [[1963 Pan American Games]] and the [[1963 FIBA World Championship]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usabasketball.com/history/mwc_1963.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014034253/http://usabasketball.com/history/mwc_1963.html|url-status=dead|title=1963 USA Basketball|archivedate=October 14, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image
===Professional career===
The 76ers selected Jackson in the first round, with the fourth overall pick, in the [[1964 NBA draft]].<ref name=signed>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image
A teammate of [[Wilt Chamberlain]], Jackson was a starter on the 1966–67 Philadelphia championship team that ended the [[Boston Celtics]]' string of eight straight NBA championships. He scored 13 points and had 21 rebounds in the title-clinching game over the San Francisco Warriors in the [[1967 NBA Finals]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lucious Jackson, former 76ers star and NBA champion, dies at 80 |url=https://www.nba.com/news/lucious-jackson-former-76ers-star-and-nba-champion-dies-at-80 |website=NBA.com |access-date=October 16, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> After the 1968 season, the 76ers traded Chamberlain to the Lakers, and the 76ers moved Jackson back to center.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image
===Personal life and death===
Jackson and his wife, Marva, were married for 57 years before his death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kfdm.com/news/local/remembering-beaumont-resident-and-nba-legend-luke-jackson|title=Remembering Beaumont resident and NBA legend Luke Jackson|date=October 12, 2022|website=KFDM}}</ref> After his retirement from basketball, they settled in [[Beaumont, Texas]], Marva's hometown, in 1973.<ref name=beaumont/> He finished his degree at Pan American University and worked for the Beaumont Parks and Recreation Department starting in 1975.<ref name=panam>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image
The 1990s all-female rock band [[Luscious Jackson]] chose their name as inspiration from Lucious Jackson.<ref name=beaumont/>
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{{NBA player statistics legend|champion=y}}
;Source<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/77103|title=Lucious Jackson|work=NBA.com|accessdate=October 15, 2022}}</ref>
=== Regular season ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
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!Team
!GP
!GS
!MPG
!FG%
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| style="text-align:left;" |[[1964-65 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
|76
|
|'''34.1'''
|.414
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| style="text-align:left;" |[[1965-66 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
|79
|
|24.9
|.401
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| style="text-align:left;" |[[1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
|81
|
|29.3
|'''.438'''
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| style="text-align:left;" |[[1967-68 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
|'''82'''
|
|31.3
|.433
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| style="text-align:left;" |[[1968–69 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
|25
|
|33.6
|.437
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| style="text-align:left;" |[[1969–70 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
|37
|
|15.8
|.392
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| style="text-align:left;" |[[1970–71 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
|79
|'''40'''
|22.5
|.376
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| style="text-align:left;" |[[1971–72 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
|63
|22
|17.2
|.396
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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Career
|522
|62
|26.4
|.415
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==External links==
*{{basketballstats|bbr=j/jackslu01|name=Lucious Jackson}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Lucious}}
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