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Mark Price
Mark Price after a game at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver
Personal information
Born (1964-02-15) February 15, 1964 (age 60)
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Listed weight170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High schoolEnid (Enid, Oklahoma)
CollegeGeorgia Tech (1982–1986)
NBA draft1986: 2nd round, 25th overall pick
Selected by the Dallas Mavericks
Playing career1986–1998
PositionPoint guard
Number25, 15, 5
Coaching career1998–present
Career history
As player:
1986–1995Cleveland Cavaliers
1995–1996Washington Bullets
1996–1997Golden State Warriors
1997–1998Orlando Magic
As coach:
1998–1999Duluth HS (assistant)
1999–2000Georgia Tech (assistant)
2000–2001Whitefield Academy
2006South Dragons
2007–2008Denver Nuggets (assistant)
2008–2010Atlanta Hawks (assistant)
2010–2011Golden State Warriors (assistant)
2011–2012Orlando Magic (assistant)
2013–2015Charlotte Bobcats / Hornets (assistant)
2015–2017Charlotte 49ers
2018–2019Denver Nuggets (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points10,989 (15.2 ppg)
Rebounds1,848 (2.6 rpg)
Assists4,863 (6.7 apg)
Stats at NBA.com Edit this at Wikidata
Stats at Basketball Reference
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing  United States
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 1983 Caracas Team competition
FIBA World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1994 Canada Team competition

William Mark Price (born February 15, 1964) is an American former basketball player and coach. He was most recently the head coach of the Charlotte 49ers. As a player, he played for 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), from 1986 to 1998. Spending the majority of his career with the Cleveland Cavaliers, his last three years consisted of one season each with the Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors, and Orlando Magic.

College career

Standing at 6 feet (183 cm) tall, Price played college basketball at Georgia Tech. During his time playing on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball team, he was a two-time All American and four-time All ACC basketball player who helped lead the Yellow Jackets to an ACC Championship his junior year by defeating North Carolina in the ACC Tournament championship game. He was named the ACC Player of the Year for the 1984–85 season and his jersey was retired.[1] He was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 1991 and into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. Price graduated in four years with a degree in Industrial Management.

College records

  • All-time Georgia Tech leader in 3-point field goal percentage (.440, 1983–86)
  • All-time Georgia Tech leader in steals (240, 1983–86)
  • All-time Georgia Tech leader in consecutive games started (126, 1983–86)
  • All-time Georgia Tech leader in minutes played (4,604, 1983–86)[2]

Professional career

A point guard, he mystified critics who said he was too slow, too small and too deliberate for a high-level game. Selected first in the second round (25th overall) by the Dallas Mavericks in the 1986 NBA draft, he was acquired by the Cleveland Cavaliers in a draft day trade that helped turn the team into an Eastern Conference powerhouse.

Cleveland Cavaliers

Price was known as one of the league's most consistent shooters. He finished his career with a 90.4% free throw shooting percentage[3] and a 40% three-point field goal shooting percentage.[4] During the 1988–89 season, Price became the second player, after Larry Bird, to join the NBA's 50–40–90 club for those who shot at least 40% from three-point range, at least 50% from the field and at least 90% from the free throw line in a single season, and is still one of only eight players to have ever done this while also achieving the NBA league minimum number of makes in each category. Price ranked consistently among the assist leaders (as of March 11, 2015, LeBron James surpassed Price's Cavs record of 4,206 assists, taking over 1st place[5]),[6] twice won the Three Point Contest (in 1993 and 1994), and was a four-time All-Star. Price was named to the All-NBA First Team after the 1992–93 season.[7] Price was second in franchise steals with 734, a Cavaliers record that stood until December 9, 2008 when LeBron James surpassed him.[8]

Another one of Price's distinguishing traits on the court was his pioneering of the splitting of the double team. As former teammate Steve Kerr explains, "Mark really revolutionized the way that people attack the screen and roll. To me, he was the first guy in the NBA who really split the screen and roll. A lot of teams started blitzing the pick and roll and jumping two guys at it to take the ball out of the hands of the point guard. He’d duck right between them and shoot that little runner in the lane. Nobody was doing that at that time. You watch an NBA game now and almost everybody does that. Mark was a pioneer in that regard."[9]

Later career

Price was plagued by injuries late in his career, a factor in his trade to the Washington Bullets prior to the 1995–96 season. He played one season for Washington before moving on to the Golden State Warriors with whom he spent the 1996–97 season. On October 28, 1997, Price was traded to the Orlando Magic for David Vaughn III and Brian Shaw. He spent one season with the Magic before being waived on June 30, 1998, effectively ending his career.

National team career

During his career Price represented the United States national team. He played for them in the 1983 Pan American Games where the team won gold medals, and also represented the national team in the 1994 FIBA World Championship, where they were known as Dream Team II, and won gold medals.[10]

Legacy

Not long after retirement, Price's number, 25, was retired by the Cleveland Cavaliers. He is a member of the Georgia, Ohio, and Oklahoma Sports Halls of Fame.

The city of Enid, Oklahoma, renamed the basketball arena Mark Price Arena, as a tribute to the NBA player's accomplishments, since he was one of the best basketball athletes in Enid High School history.[11]

Personal life

His younger brother Brent Price played ten seasons in the NBA. His daughter Caroline had a short stint in professional tennis after playing for the North Carolina Tar Heels. His son Josh plays college basketball for the Liberty Flames.

Coaching career

Mark Price began his coaching career during the 1998–99 basketball season as a community coach under head coach and friend Joe Marelle at Duluth High School for the varsity boys team. After Marelle discovered he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Price became a primary factor in the team's return trip to the final four of the class 5A GHSA state tournament. It was the first time Duluth High School returned to this point in the state tournament in 16 years. Price then went on to be an assistant coach to Bobby Cremins at Georgia Tech during the 1999–2000 season.[12]

After Cremins retired from coaching at Georgia Tech, Price then went on the following year to be the head coach at Whitefield Academy in Atlanta for the 2000–01 season leading the team to a 27-5 record and the final eight teams of the state Class A tournament, a 20 win improvement over the prior season and 27 win improvement two seasons before Price arrived.[13] NBA player Josh Smith also played at Whitefield Academy the same season Price was coach.[14][15]

In 2002, Price won the Coach Wooden "Keys to Life" Award.[16]

In 2003, Price was a consultant for the NBA's Denver Nuggets. He then became an NBA television analyst and color commentator for both the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Atlanta Hawks.

In March 2006, Price was named the inaugural head coach of the Australian NBL's South Dragons, a new franchise for the 2006–07 season.[17]

Price was the shooting consultant for the Memphis Grizzlies for the 2007–08 season and named the shooting coach for the Atlanta Hawks for the 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons.[18] Price helped to improve the Hawks offensive output in their first return to the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals in nearly 10 years during the 2009 NBA Playoffs.[19]

Price is credited with helping Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo improve his jump shot. Rondo's scoring was a key factor in the Celtics reaching the 2010 NBA Finals, where they pushed the Los Angeles Lakers to a full seven game series.[20] For the 2010–2011 season, Price joined the Golden State Warriors as an assistant coach with the primary task of improving the Warriors shooting and free throw percentages.[21]

In December 2011, Price was hired as a player development coach for the Orlando Magic.[22] In July 2012, Price served as the head coach of the Orlando Magic's Summer League team.[23]

On July 1, 2013, Price was hired as an assistant coach by the Charlotte Bobcats, joining the staff of head coach Steve Clifford and associate head coach Patrick Ewing for the 2013–14 season.[24]

On March 25, 2015 Price was introduced as the head coach of the Charlotte 49ers.[25] He replaced Coach Alan Major, who parted ways with Charlotte after two medical leaves during the past season.[26] On December 14, 2017, it was announced that Mark Price was relieved of his duties as head coach of the Charlotte 49ers basketball program.[27]

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
 *  Led the league  ‡  NBA record

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1986–87 Cleveland 67 0 18.2 .408 .329 .833 1.7 3.0 .6 .1 6.9
1987–88 Cleveland 80 79 32.8 .506 .486 .877 2.3 6.0 1.2 .2 16.0
1988–89 Cleveland 75 74 36.4 .526 .441 .901 3.0 8.4 1.5 .1 18.9
1989–90 Cleveland 73 73 37.1 .459 .406 .888 3.4 9.1 1.6 .1 19.6
1990–91 Cleveland 16 16 35.7 .497 .340 .952 2.8 10.4 2.6 .1 16.9
1991–92 Cleveland 72 72 29.7 .488 .387 .947* 2.4 7.4 1.3 .2 17.3
1992–93 Cleveland 75 74 31.7 .484 .416 .948* 2.7 8.0 1.2 .1 18.2
1993–94 Cleveland 76 73 31.4 .478 .397 .888 3.0 7.8 1.4 .1 17.3
1994–95 Cleveland 48 34 28.6 .413 .407 .914 2.3 7.0 .7 .1 15.8
1995–96 Washington 7 1 18.1 .300 .333 1.000 1.0 2.6 .9 .0 8.0
1996–97 Golden State 70 49 26.8 .447 .396 .906* 2.6 4.9 1.0 .0 11.3
1997–98 Orlando 63 33 22.7 .431 .335 .845 2.0 4.7 .8 .1 9.5
Career 722 578 29.9 .472 .402 .904 2.6 6.7 1.2 .1 15.2
All-Star 4 0 20.0 .514 .474 .900 1.5 3.3 1.3 .3 13.5

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1988 Cleveland 5 5 41.0 .567 .417 .960 3.6 7.6 .6 .0 21.0
1989 Cleveland 4 4 39.5 .386 .375 .933 3.3 5.5 .8 .0 16.0
1990 Cleveland 5 5 38.4 .525 .353 1.000 2.8 8.8 1.8 .2 20.0
1992 Cleveland 17 17 35.5 .496 .362 .904 2.5 7.5 1.4 .2 19.2
1993 Cleveland 9 9 32.0 .443 .308 .958 2.1 6.1 1.7 .0 13.0
1994 Cleveland 3 3 34.0 .349 .222 .929 2.0 4.7 1.3 .0 15.0
1995 Cleveland 4 4 35.8 .300 .235 .970 3.0 6.5 1.5 .0 15.0
Career 47 47 36.0 .464 .337 .944‡ 2.6 7.0 1.4 .1 17.4

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Charlotte (Conference USA) (2015–2017)
2015–16 Charlotte 14–19 9–9 7th
2016–17 Charlotte 13–17 7–11 10th
2017–18 Charlotte 3–6 0–0
Charlotte: 30–42 (.417) 16–20 (.444)
Total: 30–42 (.417)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mark Price Stats". basketball-reference.com. Archived from the original on July 3, 2015. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  2. ^ "Georgia Tech 2015–16 Information Guide" (PDF). ramblingwreck.com. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  3. ^ NBA History (2006). All Time Leaders: Free Throw Percentage. Retrieved September 24, 2006.
  4. ^ NBA History (2006). All Time Leaders: Three Point Field Goal Percentage Archived March 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved September 24, 2006.
  5. ^ "LeBron becomes Cavs' all-time assists leader". Espn.go.com. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  6. ^ Cavaliers All-Time Leaders Archived June 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 16, 2007
  7. ^ "NBA.com: Postseason Awards - 1992-93". Nba.com. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  8. ^ "Raptors vs. Cavaliers - Game Recap - December 9, 2008 - ESPN". ESPN.com. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  9. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 29, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ^ Howard-Cooper, Scott (August 25, 2015). "Q & A with Mark Price: Ready for the next challenge". NBA.com. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
  11. ^ GREATER ENID CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "Sports Illustrated on Mark Price". Sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  13. ^ "Rome News-Tribune - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  14. ^ Maurer, Matthew. "Josh Smith". Thedraftreview.com. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  15. ^ Price Shatters Expectations Archived September 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ "2015 Coach John Wooden". Naia.org. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  17. ^ "The Advertiser". The Advertiser. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  18. ^ Mark Price joins Hawks as consultant, Ajc.com; September 24, 2008
  19. ^ "Price hopes to help team improve shooting : Grizzlies". Commercialappeal.com. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  20. ^ Mark Price aids Rondo's Improvement, Nytimes.com; June 2, 2010
  21. ^ Mark Price Joins Warriors Coaching Staff, Nba.com; September 29, 2010
  22. ^ "Mark Price Hired as Player Development Coach". Sports Media 101 - Magic 101. December 5, 2011. Retrieved September 1, 2017.[permanent dead link]
  23. ^ "Denton: Price Gaining Valuable Coaching Experience - THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE ORLANDO MAGIC". Nba.com. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  24. ^ "Bobcats name Patrick Ewing, Bob Beyer, Stephen Silas, Bob Weiss, Mark Price as assistant coaches :InsideHoops". Insidehoops.com. Archived from the original on September 8, 2013. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  25. ^ Mark Price to coach Charlotte 49ers, Espn.go.com; March 25, 2015
  26. ^ Charlotte 49ers turn to Mark Price to revive basketball program, Charlotteobserver.com; March 26, 2015
  27. ^ "Mark Price fired as Charlotte head coach". Coaches Database. December 14, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
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