Sam Vincent (basketball)
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| Position | Point guard |
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| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg) |
| Nationality | USA |
| Born | May 18 1963 Image:Flag of Michigan.svg Lansing, Michigan |
| High school | Eastern (Lansing) |
| College | Michigan State |
| Draft | 20th, 1985 Boston Celtics |
| Pro career | 1985–1992 |
| Former teams | Boston Celtics Orlando Magic |
| Awards | Mr. Basketball of Michigan |
James Samuel ("Sam") Vincent (born May 18, 1963 in Lansing, Michigan) is a retired American professional basketball player. On May 25, 2007 Vincent was introduced as the new head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA.[1]
A 6'2" point guard, Vincent followed in the footsteps of his older brother Jay Vincent, attending Michigan State University and earning Sporting News All-America honors in 1985. After graduating from college, he was selected by the Boston Celtics with the twentieth pick of the 1985 NBA Draft. He played two seasons for the Celtics, winning an NBA Championship ring as a reserve in 1986, before joining the Seattle SuperSonics, who promptly traded him to the Chicago Bulls for Sedale Threatt. After one-and-a-half solid seasons with the Bulls, he was selected by the Orlando Magic in the 1989 NBA expansion draft, and he finished his NBA career with the Magic in 1992. He scored 3,106 points and tallied 1,543 assists during his seven-year tenure in the league.
Shortly after retiring, Vincent worked at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Walt Disney World. During the late 1990s, he coached basketball in South Africa, and he has also coached in Greece, Netherlands, Nigeria, and the NBDL. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, he led the Nigerian women's basketball team to a 68-64 victory over South Korea, which was the first ever victory by an African nation in an Olympic women's basketball contest.
He was coach of the Fort Worth Flyers in the 2005-2006 season. Shortly after coaching the Nigeria men's team to the second round of the 2006 FIBA World Championship (including a shocking upset of traditional power Serbia & Montenegro), he was hired as an assistant by the Dallas Mavericks.
Vincent won the State of Michigan "Mr. Basketball" award in 1981, the first year the award was ever given. He attended Lansing's Eastern High School.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Charlotte Bobcats. "Bobcats New Era Begins With Vincent", Charlotte Bobcats, 2007-05-25.
[edit] External links
- NBA.com Coach Profile
- Sam Vincent Statistics at Basketball-Reference.com
- "Nigeria ends African drought at Olympics", 2004 USA Today article
1985 NBA Draft |
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| First Round Patrick Ewing • Wayman Tisdale • Benoit Benjamin • Xavier McDaniel • Jon Koncak • Joe Kleine • Chris Mullin • Detlef Schrempf • Charles Oakley • Ed Pinckney • Keith Lee • Kenny Green • Karl Malone • Alfredrick Hughes • Blair Rasmussen • Bill Wennington • Uwe Blab • Joe Dumars • Steve Harris • Sam Vincent • Terry Catledge • Jerry Reynolds • A. C. Green • Terry Porter |
| Second Round Mike Smrek • Bill Martin • Dwayne McClain • Ken Johnson • Mike Brittain • Calvin Duncan • Manute Bol • Nick Vanos • Greg Stokes • Aubrey Sherrod • Tyrone Corbin • Yvon Joseph • Carey Scurry • Fernando Martín • George Montgomery • Mark Acres • Lorenzo Charles • Bobby Lee Hurt • Barry Stevens • Voise Winters • John "Hot Rod" Williams • Adrian Branch • Gerald Wilkins |
Charlotte Bobcats Head Coaches |
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| Bickerstaff • Vincent |
| Preceded by Bernie Bickerstaff | Charlotte Bobcats Head Coach 2007– | Succeeded by 'N/A' |
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