Area Dad Talking About Pete Maravich Again

INDIANAPOLIS—While watching a recent Pacers-Cavaliers game with his 31-year-old son Daniel, Paul Steitzer, 64, began talking about former Jazz and Hawks legend “Pistol” Pete Maravich, marking the sixth time this season that Steitzer has brought up the Hall of Fame point guard from out of nowhere. “I don’t know what makes him think about Pete Maravich, but all of a sudden he’ll start saying things like ’He’s no Maravich,’ or ’Maravich would have made that pass,’” said the younger Steitzer, adding that over the last 30 years, his father has compared Pete Maravich to nearly every point guard in the league, as well as to Moses Malone and Anthony Mason. “Whenever he talks about Maravich, he always brings up how quick he was and says ’whoa boy’ a lot.” Steitzer later told reporters that his father even talks about Maravich in situations that do not traditionally involve basketball, noting that before his wedding last June, Steitzer took a moment to tell his son how Maravich would often perform “this crazy fake wrist pass thing.”