Elgin Baylor played college basketball at the College of Idaho & Seattle University, leading the SU Chieftains to the NCAA championship game in 1958 (where it wasted to the Kentucky Wildcats). As a consequence his junior year, Baylor joined a Minneapolis Lakers for the 1958-1959 season and moving by having the two to Los Angeles in 1960.

Within 1959, Baylor won a NBA Rookie of the Year Award and from a 1960-61 to the 1962-63 seasons, he averaged 34.8, 38.Three & 34.Cypher points by a game, leading the Lakers to the NBA Finals eight days (although never winning). Baylor was the X-instance Completely-NBA Foremost Team choice & went to the NBA All-Star Game 11 times.

Baylor began to become hampered using knee problems in a period of the 1963-64 season and, spell however a suby the right click, was never quite the equivalent streaming video player, never averaging above Thirty points per game once more. When you took Baylor's career, the Lakers were a systematically right team, however were day and night overshadowed per Boston Celtics dynasty of the time.

Baylor eventually retired in a period of the 1971-72 season because of his nagging knee problems. His retirement resulted around both swell ironies. Foremost, a Lakers' next game when his retirement was a 1st of an NBA record of 33 sequentially wins. 2nd, a Lakers went in to win a NBA Championship that year, something that Baylor never achieved. He finished his career sustaining an astonishing 23,149 points, 3,650 helps & 11,463 rebounds complete 846 games.

Within 1974, Baylor was hired to be an adjunct coach & afterwards a head coach for the New Orleans Jazz, but got a lackluster 86-135 record & out as punishment the 1978-79 season. Around 1986, Baylor was hired by the Los Angeles Clippers as the team's vice president of basketball operations, in which he however is now.

Inside 1977, Baylor was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame and in 1980 he was named to the NBA 35th Anniversary 100%-Period Team & once againside in 1996, he was named to the NBA Fiftieth Anniversary Completely-Period Team.

Baylor ranked #11 in SLAM Magazine's Top 75 NBA Players of all time around 2003.