and 2.5 assists. The 1979–80 season was his fourth and final in Chicago. Injuries limited him to 36 games and 6.1 points per game. Mengelt played one season in Italy between his last season with the Bulls and his final NBA season with the Warriors in 1980–81, for whom he played just two games, ending his professional career. Mengelt was a fan favorite wherever he played, earning the nickname "Crash" from Royals teammate Norm Van Lier for his willingness to dive after loose balls. He retired with 6,218 career points. Personal life After retiring as a player, Mengelt worked in TV for about 20 years serving as color analyst for the Pistons, Bulls, and DePaul basketball while also doing some national work for ABC. During that time, he also worked for Professional Athletes Career Enterprises, a startup organization that assists retiring professional athletes move successfully into second careers. He also continued to grow his own successful executive search firm, Breckenridge Partners, located in the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois Breckenridge Partners has executed over 1,000 retained executive searches working in various industries including Healthcare, Higher Education, Financial Services, Technology, Manufacturing, Distribution and Consulting and Not for Profits. Some of Breckenridge Partners clients have included IBM, Walt Disney World, One America Financial Partners, Applied Biosystems, CR Bard, Textron and Public Accounting Firm Ernst & Young and several Not for Profits, and Universities. As an avocation, Mengelt also spent 20+ years in broadcasting basketball games for WGN, ESPN and ABC. In 1995, Mengelt was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and in 1996 into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Mengelt and his wife of 49 years live in the United States. They have one grown daughter, Jennifer Mengelt Corridon, and twin grandchildren Cullen and Hannah, born in 2013. See also List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 60 or more points in a game References External links Career Stats 1949 births Living people American expatriate basketball people in Italy American men's basketball players Auburn Tigers men's basketball players Basketball players from Indiana Basketball players from Wisconsin Chicago Bulls announcers Chicago Bulls players Cincinnati Royals draft picks Cincinnati Royals players Detroit Pistons announcers Detroit Pistons players Golden State Warriors players Kansas City Kings players People from Elwood, Indiana Shooting guards Sportspeople from La Crosse, Wisconsin