season, after which he retired from professional basketball. While playing for the SuperSonics in their inaugural 1967–68 season, Hazzard scored a career high 24.0 points per game, averaged 6.2 assists per game, and was selected to play in the 1968 NBA All-Star Game. Seattle traded him to the Hawks during the off-season for Lenny Wilkens. Hazzard's career-high average in assists came during the 1969–70 season, when he averaged 6.8 assists per game while playing for the Hawks. Coaching career In 1980, Hazzard took a part-time position paying $1,500 annually to be the head coach at Compton Community College. He compiled a 53–9 record in his two seasons, but 21 wins from the first season were later forfeited because he used an ineligible player. According to Hazzard, poor records from the season before his arrival failed to note that the ineligible player had played that season. He went on to Division II school Chapman College, where he coach two seasons with a 44–14 record. In 1984, he returned to UCLA as its men's basketball coach, twenty years after winning the national championship as a player. That same year, he was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame. He coached for four seasons, winning 77 out of 125 games. The 1984–85 UCLA Bruins basketball team won the NIT championship. The 1986–87 Bruins won both the Pac-10 regular season championship as well as the inaugural Pac-10 tournament. However, after the 1987–88 Bruins finished only two games above .500—the closest they had come to a losing record in 40 years—Hazzard was fired. He later spent a number of years working for the Los Angeles Lakers, first as an advance scout on the west coast and later as a special consultant. Career statistics Playing statistics Regular season |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles | 66 || – || 13.9 || .382 || – || .648 || 1.7 || 2.1 || – || – || 4.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles | 80 || – || 27.5 || .457 || – || .708 || 2.7 || 4.9 || – || – || 13.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles | 79 || – || 20.8 || .426 || – || .729 || 2.9 || 4.1 || – || – || 9.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Seattle | 79 || – || 33.7 || .441 || – || .774 || 4.2