Austin Croshere

Austin Croshere

Croshere in 2007.
No. 22
Forward
Personal information
Date of birth	May 1, 1975 (1975-05-01)
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
High school	Crossroads School (Santa Monica, California)
Listed height	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Listed weight	235 lb (107 kg)
Career information
College	Providence (1993–1997)
NBA Draft	1997 / Round: 1 / Pick: 12th overall
Selected by the Indiana Pacers
Pro career	1997–2009
Career history
1997–2006	Indiana Pacers
2006–2007	Dallas Mavericks
2007–2008	Golden State Warriors
2008–2009	Milwaukee Bucks
2009	San Antonio Spurs
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Medal record
Men’s Basketball
Competitor for United States
Summer Universiade
Gold	1995 Fukuoka	Team competition

Austin Nathan Croshere (born May 1, 1975) is a retired American professional basketball player and current analyst for Fox Sports Indiana broadcasts of Indiana Pacers games.

Education

He went to Palms Middle School and Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, and graduated from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island.

Professional career

Indiana Pacers

Croshere played his first eight seasons in the NBA with the Indiana Pacers and is now a broadcaster for the team.

Croshere was the 12th pick of the 1997 NBA Draft, selected by the Indiana Pacers.

A 6'10", hard-nosed player who can play the power forward and small forward positions, Croshere has shot 33.9% from three-point range over the course of his ten-year career. In the 1999–2000 NBA season, he had peaked at just the right time as he helped the Pacers advance to the 2000 NBA Finals, marking the Pacers' first Finals appearance since the ABA-NBA merger.

He was rewarded for his performance in the regular season and particularly the playoffs with a hefty contract, which the Pacers soon learned to regret as lamentably, Austin never fully lived up to the promise he had shown. In fairness to him, Pacers coach Isiah Thomas seldom used him during the three seasons he coached the team. Croshere played 49 games in 2002-03, averaging a career-low 12.9 minutes per game that season as he fell out of the rotation.

Croshere became an important backup again during the Rick Carlisle years, and was a key contributor against the Detroit Pistons in the 2004 Eastern Conference Finals.

On September 26, 2008, Larry Bird announced that Croshere was invited to training camp with the Pacers for an opportunity at a second stint. He was waived on October 23, 2008.

Dallas Mavericks

On July 5, 2006, Croshere was traded to the Dallas Mavericks for Marquis Daniels. This move left only Jeff Foster as the last Pacer remaining from the 1999-2000 Eastern Conference championship team.

Croshere scored a career-high 34 points in a Mavericks 122-102 win against the Seattle SuperSonics on January 30, 2007.

Golden State Warriors

On August 3, 2007, Croshere signed with the Golden State Warriors.

2008 was the first year in his career that Croshere did not make the playoffs.

Milwaukee Bucks

Croshere spent the 2008-09 pre-season with his former team Indiana Pacers, however he was waived and on October 27 he was claimed by the Milwaukee Bucks off the waivers. He was released on January 6, 2009 after averaging 3.3 points and 2.2 rebounds per game.

San Antonio Spurs

Croshere was signed to a 10-day contract with the San Antonio Spurs on 16 January 2009. He was released on 28 January after appearing in 3 games and scoring 4 points.

Post-NBA career

In February 2010, Croshere joined Fox Sports Indiana as a pre- and post-game analyst for Pacers home games.

NBA career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1997–98	Indiana	26	0	9.3	.372	.308	.571	1.7	.3	.3	.2	2.9
1998–99	Indiana	27	0	9.2	.427	.276	.870	1.7	.4	.3	.3	3.4
1999–00	Indiana	81	14	23.3	.441	.362	.848	6.4	1.1	.5	.7	10.3
2000–01	Indiana	81	23	23.1	.394	.338	.866	4.8	1.1	.4	.6	10.1
2001–02	Indiana	76	1	16.9	.413	.338	.851	3.9	1.0	.3	.4	6.8
2002–03	Indiana	49	0	12.9	.411	.391	.815	3.2	1.1	.1	.3	5.1
2003–04	Indiana	77	0	13.6	.388	.389	.894	3.2	.7	.3	.2	5.0
2004–05	Indiana	73	22	25.0	.378	.259	.883	5.1	1.3	.7	.2	8.9
2005–06	Indiana	50	26	23.0	.463	.386	.882	5.3	1.2	.4	.1	8.2
2006–07	Dallas	61	2	11.9	.351	.286	.865	3.0	.7	.2	.1	3.7
2007–08	Golden State	44	0	10.4	.445	.361	.906	2.4	.7	.2	.1	3.9
2008–09	Milwaukee	11	0	7.0	.400	.455	.636	2.2	.5	.1	.1	3.3
2008–09	San Antonio	3	0	7.7	.222	.000	.000	3.3	1.0	.0	.0	1.3
Career		659	88	17.4	.407	.340	.861	4.0	1.0	.4	.3	6.8

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1998–99	Indiana	1	0	1.0	.000	.000	1.000	1.0	.0	.0	.0	2.0
1999–00	Indiana	23	2	21.3	.418	.405	.839	4.7	.8	.4	.7	9.4
2000–01	Indiana	4	0	32.3	.400	.200	.867	5.0	1.5	1.0	.5	10.8
2001–02	Indiana	4	0	14.8	.400	.333	.750	3.5	.5	.2	.2	6.0
2002–03	Indiana	4	0	11.5	.263	.000	.857	4.3	.8	.0	.2	4.0
2003–04	Indiana	13	2	16.5	.345	.333	.810	3.1	.9	.3	.2	4.8
2004–05	Indiana	10	0	8.8	.400	.500	.833	1.7	.0	.4	.1	2.5
2005–06	Indiana	6	2	29.2	.316	.391	.889	3.7	1.2	.8	.0	8.2
2006–07	Dallas	3	0	11.3	.333	.750	1.000	2.0	.0	.0	.0	5.0
Career		68	6	18.2	.379	.360	.844	3.6	.7	.4	.3	6.7

External links

• NBA.com Profile - Austin Croshere
• NBA biography of Croshere (2008, in brief)
• NBA biography of Croshere (2007, more detailed)