Edward Sebastian "Ed" Palubinskas (born 1950) is an Australian NBA shooting coach and the President of the National Basketball Shooters Association. He is a member of the Basketball Australia Hall of Fame.
Playing Career
College
Palubinskas started his collegiate career at Ricks Junior College in Rexburg, Idaho in 1970, where he led the U.S. in free throw percentage with 92.4%. He holds the record for the most consecutive free throws in a game (14) and 43 consecutive for the season. He was also selected as an All-American that year while breaking most records at Ricks College which is now BYU-Idaho. Palubinskas then transferred to Louisiana State University, after playing in the Munich Olympics where he was second leading scorer missing the Olympic scoring title by one point. At LSU, Palubinskas averaged 18.6 ppg and was selected to the All-SEC Coaches Team.
Professional
Ed was selected in the 1975 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks in the 3rd round. He was then traded to the New Orleans Jazz and drafted in the 8th round of the ABA draft by the Utah Stars.
Olympics
Palubinskas is widely regarded as one of the greatest Australian basketball players ever. After being the 2nd leading scorer in the 1972 Munich Olympics, Palubinskas was the top overall scorer in 1976 Montreal Olympics. He set three Olympic scoring records in Montreal, most notably the record for most points scored in a single Olympics (269), which was broken by Brazilian Oscar Schmidt during the 1988 Olympics.
The most points he scored in one game was 48 against Mexico in overtime.
Coaching Career
Palubinskas began his coaching career in 1976 right after he graduated fromLouisiana State University.
After a year there he returned to BYU where he finished his Master's Degree with a thesis in Sports Art. After a year here he got the coveted job at East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah where he coached till 1986 then decided to take the assistant coach position at Brigham Young University in Hawaii, where he stayed only for a year due to an illness by his wife causing them to return to the mainland in Idaho to be near his wife's parents. After sitting out a couple years from coaching he got back in and became the Head coach at Mountain Home High School in Idaho where he stayed a few years before returning to Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1991. In 1992 He became the head coach at Central private where he won 3 state championships over the next few years. He became a voluntary assistant coach at LSU during the 1991-92 season, helping the Tigers win a SEC Championship that year.
After a four year campaign as the head coach at Central PrivateHigh School from 1992 to 1996, Palubinskas became the assistant coach of the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2000-01 NBA season. He helped lead the Lakers to the 2001 NBA Championship.
Along with his valuable coaching experience at every level, Ed has served as a shooting consultant for thePhoenix Mercury of theWNBA and the Australian Women's Olympic Team which won the gold medal the next year (2006).
In addition, he founded the Palubinskas Basketball Academy in 1996 to teach shooting fundamentals and aggressive scoring techniques to basketball players of all levels.
Career Highlights
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