Former LSU basketball walk-on Josh Maravich, the younger son of former LSU and NBA legend Pete Maravich, died on Friday, LSU announced on Saturday. He was 42.
Maravich died at the family home in Covington, Louisiana, according to the announcement. A cause of death was not given.
He played four seasons at LSU as a walk-on from 2001-05, following in the footsteps of his dad. His older brother Jaeson also played college hoops, though not at LSU.
And it was a role he was proud to play, fulfilling something of a family legacy.
“I wanted to come here for my dad to make him proud,” Maravich told The Daily Reveille at the time. “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.”
Josh and his brother both played a key role in the statue of their father that sits outside of the arena bearing his name, the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. It was their idea to have their father depicted in full fast break, throwing a behind-the-back pass.
Maravich is survived by his brother, Jaeson, and their mother, Jackie Maravich McLachlan and her husband.
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