Sam Vincent
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1963-05-18) May 18, 1963 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 / Round: 1 / Pick: 20th overall |
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 |
| 2014-2016 | Manama Club |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| |
| Career NBA statistics | |
| Points | 3,106 (7.8 ppg) |
| Assists | 1,543 (3.9 apg) |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
James Samuel "Sam" Vincent (born May 18, 1963) is an American retired professional basketball Player and 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.
Contents
1 Coaching career
1.1 Nigerian national basketball team
2 Head coaching record
3 References
4 External links
Coaching career[edit]
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.
Nigerian national basketball team[edit]
Vincent assumed coachig the D'Tigress at the 2004 summer olympics. He led the team to an 68-64 victory over south-Korea, the victory was the first victory by an African side in the women's basketball event in the Olympics. In 2005, Sam Vincent led the Nigerian Women Basketball team to their second tournament victory in the FIBA African Basketball Championship (Afrobasket).
Vincent returned as the team's head coach in 2017. He led the team to a 100 per cent performance in the 2017 FIBA African women's basketball tournament Afrobasket in Bamako, Mali. The team clinched their third Afrobasket title by defeating Senegal by 65-48 points in the final and consequently qualifying for the FIBA women's basketball World cup in Spain.[3]
Vincent had his appointment as head coach of the Nigeria Women's Basketball Team terminated by the Nigeria Basketball Federation on Thursday, August 2nd while the team was preparing for the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup[4].
Head coaching record[edit]
| Legend | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular season | G | Games coached | W | Games won | L | Games lost | W–L % | Win–loss % | |
| Post season | 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[edit]
^ Charlotte Bobcats (2007-05-25). "Bobcats New Era Begins With Vincent". Charlotte Bobcats. Archived from the original on 2009-03-07..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ Bobcats fire Sam Vincent; is Brown interested?
^ https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/09/09/sam-vincent-beating-the-odds/
^ "BREAKING: Nigeria D'Tigress Head Coach Sam Vincent fired! | BWB". www.basketballwithinborders.com. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
External links[edit]
- NBA.com coach profile
Sam Vincent at Basketball-Reference.com
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- African-American basketball players
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- Anaheim Arsenal coaches
- Aris B.C. players
- Basketball players from Michigan
- Boston Celtics draft picks
- Boston Celtics players
- Charlotte Bobcats head coaches
- Chicago Bulls players
- Dallas Mavericks assistant coaches
- Fort Worth Flyers coaches
- McDonald's High School All-Americans
- Michigan State Spartans men's basketball players
- Mobile Revelers coaches
- Orlando Magic expansion draft picks
- Orlando Magic players
- Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
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- Sportspeople from Lansing, Michigan
- Basketball coaches from Michigan
- American women's basketball coaches
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