COVINGTON, La. – Former LSU basketball player Josh Maravich, son of the late Hall of Fame basketball player Pete Maravich, has died at age 42, the university announced Saturday night.
He died at home on Friday, according to the LSU statement. No cause of death has been revealed.
Josh Maravich was a reserve for LSU, which plays home games at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, from the 2001-02 to 2004-05 seasons under then-coach John Brady.
For the younger Maravich, it was a childhood dream to play for LSU, where his father set the NCAA Division I men's scoring record of 3,667 points from 1967-1970.
“I wanted to come here to make my dad proud,” Josh Maravich said in a 2005 article in The Daily Reveille, LSU's student newspaper. “He knew he wasn't going to be a star player, but for me being a substitute was what he always wanted to do.”
Pete Maravich was a prolific scorer during an NBA career that was cut short in 1980 by the lingering effects of a major knee injury a couple of years earlier.
In 1988, at age 40, he died from an undetected heart condition.
Earlier this year, she returned to the headlines when her Division I scoring mark, which was unmatched by any male or female player for more than half a century, was surpassed by Iowa star Caitlin Clark (3,951 points).
In 2022, when LSU unveiled a bronze statue of Pete Maravich outside its basketball facility, sculptor Brian Hanlon credited Josh Maravich and his older brother Jaeson Maravich with the idea of representing their father, known for his talent for the show and its creativity, making a behind-the-back pass.
