Shaler Halimon

Shaler Halimon Jr. (March 30, 1945 – April 19, 2021) was an American basketball player who played five seasons in the National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association. A 6'5" swingman from Tampa, Florida, Halimon attended Imperial Valley Community College before playing college basketball for the Utah State Aggies, where he averaged 25.1 points and 10.2 rebounds per game across his two seasons.

The Philadelphia 76ers drafted Halimon in the first round of the 1968 NBA draft, 14th overall. In the NBA he played for the 76ers, Chicago Bulls, Portland Trail Blazers, and Atlanta Hawks, and in the ABA he played for the Dallas Chaparrals. He averaged 6.7 points and 3.4 rebounds per game in the NBA and 6.2 points and 3.1 rebounds in the ABA.

Halimon retired from the game in 1973. He worked first as a social worker in San Antonio, Texas, then as a city bus driver in Portland, Oregon. He joined TriMet, the transit agency for the Portland metropolitan area, in 1978, and the agency named him its "Bus operator of the year" in 2010. He retired from TriMet in 2012. Halimon died on April 19, 2021.