Sam Vincent

Sam Vincent
Personal information
Born	May 18, 1963 (age 61); Lansing, Michigan
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Listed weight	185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school	Eastern (Lansing, Michigan)
College	Michigan State (1981–1985)
NBA draft	1985: 1st round, 20th overall pick
	Selected by the Boston Celtics
Playing career	1985–1994
Position	Point guard
Number	11, 14
Career history
As player:
1985–1987	Boston Celtics
1987–1988	Seattle SuperSonics
1988–1989	Chicago Bulls
1989–1992	Orlando Magic
1993–1994	Aris
As coach:
1999–2000	AEL 1964
2000–2001	EiffelTowers Den Bosch
2001–2003	Mobile Revelers
2005–2006	Fort Worth Flyers
2006–2007	Dallas Mavericks (assistant)
2007–2008	Charlotte Bobcats
2008–2009	Anaheim Arsenal
Career highlights and awards
	NBA champion (1986); Second-team All-American – NABC (1985); Third-team All-American – AP, UPI (1985); Mr. Basketball of Michigan (1981);
Career NBA statistics
Points	3,106 (7.8 ppg)
Assists	1,543 (3.9 apg)
	Stats at NBA.com
	Stats at Basketball Reference

James Samuel "Sam" Vincent (born May 18, 1963) is an American retired professional basketball player and former coach

Vincent won the State of Michigan "Mr. Basketball" award in 1981, the first year the award was given. He attended Lansing's Eastern High School, where he scored 61 points in one game as a senior, breaking the previous city scoring record of 54 set by Magic Johnson at Everett High School.

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.

Coaching career

He was coach of the Fort Worth Flyers in the 2005–06 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 and Montenegro), he was hired as an assistant coach by the Dallas Mavericks.

On May 25, 2007 Vincent was introduced as the new head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA.^[1] On April 26, 2008 Vincent was relieved of his head coaching duties.^[2] Later that year, Vincent was named the head coach of the Anaheim Arsenal of the NBA Development League.

Head coaching record

Legend
Regular season	G	Games coached	W	Games won	L	Games lost	W–L %	Win–loss %
Playoffs	PG	Playoff games	PW	Playoff wins	PL	Playoff losses	PW–L %	Playoff win–loss %


Team	Year	G	W	L	W–L%	Finish	PG	PW	PL	PW–L%	Result
Charlotte	2007–08	82	32	50	.390	4th in Southeast	—	—	—	—	Missed Playoffs
Career		82	32	50	.390		—	—	—	—

References

^ Charlotte Bobcats (2007-05-25). "Bobcats New Era Begins With Vincent". Charlotte Bobcats.
^ Bobcats fire Sam Vincent; is Brown interested?

External links

[1] Charlotte Bobcats (2007-05-25). "Bobcats New Era Begins With Vincent". Charlotte Bobcats.

[2] Bobcats fire Sam Vincent; is Brown interested?

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