Phil Ford (basketball)

Phil Ford
Personal information
Born	February 9, 1956 (age 68); Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Listed weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
College	North Carolina (1974–1978)
NBA draft	1978: 1st round, 2nd overall pick
	Selected by the Kansas City Kings
Playing career	1978–1985
Position	Point guard
Number	1, 12
Career history
1978–1982	Kansas City Kings
1982	New Jersey Nets
1982–1983	Milwaukee Bucks
1983–1985	Houston Rockets
Career highlights and awards
	NBA Rookie of the Year (1979); All-NBA Second Team (1979); NBA All-Rookie First Team (1979); John R. Wooden Award (1978); USBWA Player of the Year (1978); NABC Player of the Year (1978); Sporting News Player of the Year (1978); ACC Player of the Year (1978); 2× Consensus NCAA All-American First Team (1977–1978);
Career NBA statistics
Points	5,594 (11.6 ppg)
Rebounds	854 (1.8 rpg)
Assists	3,083 (6.4 apg)
	Stats at NBA.com
	Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Men's basketball
Representing the United States

Phil Jackson Ford Jr. (born February 9, 1956 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina) is a retired American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. He graduated from Rocky Mount Senior High School in 1974.

North Carolina

Ford played four years of basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After his sophomore season, Ford started for the U.S. Olympic team that won the gold medal in 1976. While a senior, he averaged 20.8 points a game during that 1977-78 season. In 1978, Ford finished his career at Carolina as the number 1 all time leading scorer in North Carolina history with 2,290 points. Ford was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in May 1991. On December 18, 2008, Tyler Hansbrough surpassed Ford's total making Phil the number 2 scorer in Carolina history.

He also finished his career as the only player in Atlantic Coast Conference history to score over 2,000 points and register at least 600 assists (a record now shared with Travis Best of Georgia Tech and Greivis Vasquez of Maryland). A consensus All-American in 1976, 1977, and 1978, he was named college player of the year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association in 1978, when he also won the Eastman, USBWA College Player of the Year and John R. Wooden Awards. In 2002 Ford was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team honoring the fifty best players in ACC history. o

NBA career

The second pick in the first round of the draft, Ford was NBA Rookie of the Year with the Kansas City Kings in 1979. In 482 NBA games, Ford scored 5,594 points, an 11.6 average, and had 3,083 assists, an average of 6.4 per game. He retired from the NBA in 1985.

Coaching

In 1988 he returned to North Carolina as an assistant coach, and helped lead the Tar Heels to the 1993 national title. After Smith retired in 1997, Ford became the top assistant to his successor, Bill Guthridge.

Ford left the school in 1999-2000 along with the rest of Guthridge's staff when Matt Doherty took over as head coach with his own coaching staff.^[1]

Ford currently works for the Educational Foundation, the fund-raising arm of the University of North Carolina athletic department. He also briefly served as color commentator on UNC basketball broadcasts.

After a brief stint as an assistant coach to Isiah Thomas for the New York Knicks, Ford was retained in the same position by the Charlotte Bobcats' new head coach Larry Brown in June 2008.^[2]

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[1] ESPN.com: NCB - Williams couldn't say no twice to alma mater

[2] Bobcats' Brown hires 3 assistants; pursues Moe

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v t e 1977 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans
First Team	Kent Benson Otis Birdsong Phil Ford Rickey Green Marques Johnson Bernard King
Second Team	Greg Ballard Bill Cartwright Rod Griffin Ernie Grunfeld Phil Hubbard Butch Lee Mychal Thompson

v t e 1978 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans
First Team	Larry Bird Phil Ford David Greenwood Butch Lee Mychal Thompson
Second Team	Ron Brewer Jack Givens Rod Griffin Rick Robey Freeman Williams

v t e ACC Athlete of the Year
Athlete of the Year	1954: Shankle 1955: Hemric 1956: Sime 1957: Rosenbluth 1958: Christy 1959: Pucillo 1960: McGee 1961: Gabriel 1962: Chappell 1963: Heyman 1964: Mullins 1965: Piccolo 1966: Talbott 1967: Bryant 1968: Miller 1969: Quayle 1970: Scott 1971: McCauley 1972: Parkhill 1973: Thompson 1974: Waldrop 1975: Thompson 1976: Lucas 1977: Ford 1978: Ford 1979: Nehemiah 1980: Shea 1981: Shea 1982: Worthy 1983: Sampson 1984: Jordan 1985: Surhoff 1986: Bias 1987: Ingram 1988: Ferry 1989: Ferry
Male Athlete of the Year	1990: Hines 1991: Laettner 1992: Laettner 1993: C. Ward 1994: C. Ward 1995: Childress 1996: Benson 1997: Duncan 1998: Jamison 1999: Brand 2000: Hamilton 2001: Battier 2002: Dixon 2003: Rotelli 2004: Rivers 2005: May 2006: Redick 2007: Dix 2008: Hansbrough 2009: Hill 2010: Crotty 2011: Makusha 2012: Kuechly 2013: Jenkins 2014: Winston 2015: Tomlinson 2016: Watson 2017: Watson 2018: Jackson 2019: Williamson 2020: Robinson 2021: Lawrence 2022: Pickett 2023: Lowder 2024: Kavanagh
Female Athlete of the Year	1990: Higgins 1991: Staley 1992: Staley 1993: Hamm 1994: Smith 1995: Venturini 1996: Amonte 1997: Forbes 1998: Webb 1999: Parlow 2000: Adams 2001: Adams 2002: Bielik 2003: Beard 2004: Beard 2005: Dostal 2006: Infante 2007: Harding 2008: Tincher 2009: Nogueira 2010: Engen 2011: O'Donnell 2012: R. Ward 2013: Dunn 2014: Thomas 2015: Brian 2016: Seidel 2017: Kent 2018: Ogunbowale 2019: Hoffman 2020: Matson 2021: North 2022: North 2023: Tuohy 2024: Walsh

v t e 1978 NBA draft
First round	Mychal Thompson Phil Ford Rick Robey Micheal Ray Richardson Purvis Short Larry Bird Ron Brewer Freeman Williams Reggie Theus Butch Lee James Hardy George Johnson Winford Boynes Roger Phegley Mike Mitchell Jack Givens Rod Griffin Dave Corzine Marty Byrnes Frankie Sanders Mike Evans Raymond Townsend
Second round	Terry Tyler Keith Herron Rick Wilson Ron Carter Wayne Radford Buster Matheney John Long Jeff Judkins Marvin Johnson John Rudd Harry Davis Greg Bunch Tommie Green Maurice Cheeks Terry Sykes Lew Massey James Lee Wayne Cooper Jerome Whitehead Keven McDonald Glenn Hagan Clemon Johnson

v t e North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball
Venues	Bynum Gymnasium (1910–1923) Tin Can (1924–1938) Woollen Gymnasium (1938–1965) Carmichael Auditorium (1965–1986) Dean Smith Center (1986–present)
Rivalries	Duke (Carlyle Cup) Kentucky NC State Wake Forest
Culture & lore	Rameses The Marching Tar Heels Junior varsity team Inside Carolina Four corners offense Blue blood status Dixie Classic/Big Four Jumpman Invitational Tobacco Road Academic-athletic scandal Gambling scandal
People	Head coaches Honorees Honored players NBA draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	List of seasons 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Helms and Premo-Porretta national championships in bold; NCAA Final Four appearances in italics; NCAA championships in bolded italics

North Carolina

NBA career

Coaching

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