Bob Pettit was named Most Valuable Player of the N. B. A.

All-Star Game in 1958. A prolific scorer and rebounder, he delivered one of the most remarkable performances in playoff history. Bob Pettit, a prototype for the modern-day power forward who was named one of the N.

B. A.’s 50 greatest players of its first half century and who led the Hawks franchise to its only league championship, died on Wednesday. He was 93.

His death was announced by Louisiana State University, his alma mater. No other details were provided. Playing for the Hawks from 1954 to 1965, in Milwaukee as a rookie and then in St. Louis, the 6-foot-9-inch Pettit became the first N.

B. A. player to score at least 20,000 points, and he retired as the league’s second-leading career rebounder. He was an All-Star in each of his 11 seasons and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1971.

Pettit turned in one of the most brilliant playoff performances in N. B. A. history on April 12, 1958, when he scored 50 points, including 19 of the Hawks’ last 21, in a championship-clinching 110-109 victory over the Boston Celtics at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis in Game 6 of the playoff finals.

The Celtics’ Bill Russell was hampered by an ankle injury and saw limited action, but Pettit was double-teamed in the late going as he set a then-record point total for an N. B. A. regulation-time playoff game, matching Bob Cousy’s 50 points for the Celtics in their four-overtime victory against the Syracuse Nationals in 1953.

Pettit was a high-scoring, All-American center at Louisiana State University, but he weighed only 200 pounds or so, raising doubts he could compete against bulky pro centers. The Milwaukee Hawks nonetheless chose him as the second pick in the 1954 N. B.

A. draft. Their coach, Red Holzman, who would be best known for taking the Knicks to two N. B.

A. championships in the 1970s, converted him into a forward who would face the basket instead of jostling for position underneath it. Pettit became an early devotee of weight lifting and eventually filled out to 240 pounds or so. He was viewed as the model for the modern-day classic power forward perhaps best exemplified by the former Utah Jazz star Karl Malone.