BATON ROUGE — Josh Maravich, a former LSU men’s basketball player, died on Friday at his family home in Covington at the age of 42.
Josh Maravich was one of the two sons of Pistol Pete Maravich, a great LSU basketball and NBA player.
Josh played four seasons for the LSU men’s basketball team, from 2001 to 2005, under head coach John Brady. Maravich knew he intended to attend LSU all along.
“I wanted to come here for my dad to make him proud,” Josh stated in a 2005 piece in The Daily Reveille, the LSU student newspaper. “I knew I wasn’t going to be a star player, but for me being a walk-on was what I always wanted to do.”
Prior to his time at LSU, Josh Maravich played high school basketball at St. Paul’s in Covington. He scored more than 1,000 points in his three-year career there and was named MVP of the District his senior season. Josh averaged 18 points, four rebounds, four assists and three steals per game his senior season.
Josh was born in Metairie on March 25, 1982. He is survived by his mother, Jackie Maravich McLachlan and her husband James; and older brother Jaeson.
Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date.
Josh was part of the ceremonies in July 2022 to unveil the long-awaited statue of his basketball star father, on the plaza outside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
Josh and his brother, Jaeson, created the iconic posture that is displayed on the plaza where his father is enshrined alongside other basketball legends such as Shaquille O’Neal, Bob Pettit, and Seimone Augustus.
When sculptor Brian Hanlon was deciding on a design for the statue of college basketball’s all-time top scorer, he instinctively imagined the Pistol hitting a shot. But he contacted Maravich’s boys for feedback, and when the statue was revealed, Pete was in full fast break mode, throwing a right-handed behind-the-back pass.
