🏀🎂On April 23, 1943 Gail Goodrich was born in Los Angeles, California. Goodrich was the captain of the John H. Francis Polytechnic High School basketball team that dominated and won the 1961 Los Angeles City high school basketball championship. Goodrich then attended UCLA, where he finished as the school's all-time leading scorer and played on the school's first 2 national championship teams in 1964 and 1965. Goodrich was a territorial pick by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1965 NBA draft and p