Tyrone Corbin

Tyrone Corbin in Salt Lake City, Utah as the head coach of the Utah Jazz (2013)
Orlando Magic
Position	Assistant coach
League	NBA
Personal information
Born	(1962-12-31) December 31, 1962 (age 55) Columbia, South Carolina
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight	210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
High school	A.C. Flora (Forest Acres, South Carolina)
College	DePaul (1981–1985)
NBA draft	1985 / Round: 2 / Pick: 35th overall
Selected by the San Antonio Spurs
Playing career	1985–2001
Position	Small forward
Number	23, 33
Coaching career	2004–2015
Career history
As player:
1985–1987	San Antonio Spurs
1987–1988	Cleveland Cavaliers
1988–1989	Phoenix Suns
1989–1991	Minnesota Timberwolves
1991–1994	Utah Jazz
1994–1995	Atlanta Hawks
1995–1996	Sacramento Kings
1996	Miami Heat
1996–1999	Atlanta Hawks
1999–2000	Sacramento Kings
2000–2001	Toronto Raptors
As coach:
2004–2011	Utah Jazz (assistant)
2011–2014	Utah Jazz
2014	Sacramento Kings (assistant)
2014–2015	Sacramento Kings (interim)
2016–2018	Phoenix Suns (assistant)
2018–present	Orlando Magic (assistant)
Career NBA statistics
Points	9,766 (9.2 ppg)
Rebounds	5,046 (4.7 rpg)
Steals	1,228 (1.2 spg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Tyrone Kennedy Corbin (born December 31, 1962) is an American retired basketball player, and current assistant coach of the Orlando Magic in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was first appointed the assistant coach of the Phoenix Suns, then was named the Utah Jazz’s head coach, on February 10, 2011 following the resignation of longtime coach Jerry Sloan.^[1] He was also the brief interim head coach of the Sacramento Kings in the 2014-15 season before being replaced by George Karl. Prior to that, Corbin played 16 seasons in the NBA.

College career[edit]

Corbin played collegiately at DePaul University from 1981 to 1985. He played in 120 games for the Blue Demons, increasing his scoring average and field goal and free throw percentage in each of his four seasons.^[2] Corbin posted averages of 11.5 points (on .504 FG and .764 FT), 7.4 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 1.1 steal and 2.3 turnovers in 31.1 minutes per game.^[3] He finished seventh on DePaul's career scoring list and was a two-time honorable mention AP All-America selection, as well as an All-NIT choice in 1983, and he was invited to the 1984 Olympic trials. He graduated with a degree in computer science, before becoming a second-round pick of the San Antonio Spurs in the 1985 NBA Draft. He was a team captain in his junior and senior years; the former was Ray Meyer's last as head coach, the latter was Joey Meyer's first.^[4] He was inducted into the DePaul University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005.^[5]

NBA career[edit]

Corbin played in the NBA at small forward from 1985 to 2000. His first two seasons were with the San Antonio Spurs, as he was their selection in the second round (35th pick overall) of the 1985 NBA Draft. After signing with the Cleveland Cavaliers in January 1987, he was part of the trade by the Cavs which sent Kevin Johnson, Mark West, 1988 first-round and second-round draft picks and a 1989 second-round draft pick to the Phoenix Suns for Larry Nance, Mike Sanders and a 1988 first-round draft choice in February 1988. After being selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the expansion draft in 1989, he led the team and established career-highs in 1989-90 in rebounds (7.4) and steals (2.13). Corbin also recorded the first triple-double in Timberwolves history, with 10 points, 13 rebounds and a career-high 10 assists, against the Dallas Mavericks on January 2, 1991. His stint with the Jazz came by a trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves for Thurl Bailey early in the 1991-92 season, enabling him to help the team reach the NBA Western Conference Finals twice.^[6] He averaged 9.6 points and 6.2 rebounds in 233 games for the Jazz from 1991 to 1994.^[2] He was then traded by the Jazz with a 1995 second-round draft pick to the Atlanta Hawks for Adam Keefe in September 1994. It was in Atlanta where his streak of 415 consecutive games played would be broken. Corbin then was traded to the Sacramento Kings for Spud Webb in June 1995. Along with Walt Williams, he went to the Miami Heat for Billy Owens and Kevin Gamble in February 1996. He then spent three seasons with the Hawks via free-agent signing in 1996. After returning to the Kings as a free agent in 1999, he spent the next season with the Toronto Raptors. He was traded by Toronto with Corliss Williamson, Kornel David and a first-round draft pick to the Detroit Pistons for Jerome Williams and Eric Montross in February 2001.^[7] Wearing No. 23 and No. 33 throughout his playing career,^[6] he averaged 9.3 points (on .457 percent from the field), 4.8 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.2 steals in nearly 26 minutes per game while playing 1,065 games in his career.^[3] A versatile small forward, Corbin also played in 81 NBA playoff games in his career, including 37 with the Jazz, averaging 8.4 points and 5.0 rebounds per game.

Coaching career[edit]

After his playing career, Corbin spent one season with the Charleston Lowgators of the NBDL as a player mentor. Corbin was hired by Scott Layden, then general manager of the New York Knicks, as manager of Knicks player development for the 2003-04 season. In 2004, he went to the Utah Jazz, spending seven years as an assistant coach under Jerry Sloan before eventually succeeding Sloan as head coach in 2011.^[6]

On April 21, 2014, the Jazz announced that they had elected not to offer Corbin a new contract.^[8] Afterwards he became an assistant coach of the Sacramento Kings and on December 15, 2014 he was promoted to interim head coach after Mike Malone was fired.^[9] On February 12, 2015, he was relieved of his head coaching duties by the Kings, choosing to continue working with the organization as an advisor to the front office.^[10]

On June 25, 2016, two days after the 2016 NBA Draft ended, the Phoenix Suns announced that Corbin would return to the Phoenix Suns as an assistant coach under Earl Watson's newest coaching staff. Watson was a previous player under Corbin's tenure during his last season coaching the Jazz, and was also a mentor for Watson as he began his transition into coaching in the NBA.^[11] He'd also be reunited later on with Mehmet Okur, another former player he coached that'd join the Suns' coaching staff as a player development coach. However, after two major losing seasons, Corbin would be let go of on April 29, 2018.

Head coaching record[edit]

Personal life[edit]

Corbin has two children, Tyjha, and Tyrell with his wife, high school sweetheart, Dante.^[6] Tyrell was one of the top basketball prospects from Utah, playing point guard for West High. He was named Utah's Mr. Basketball in the year 2011. ^[12] He went on to play for the UC Davis Aggies men's basketball team, a Division I school competing in the Big West Conference^[13] and coached by Jim Les, his father's Atlanta Hawks teammate from the 1994–95 NBA season.^[14][15] Tyrell currently plays for the Northern Arizona Suns.

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External links[edit]

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  College & NBA stats @ basketballreference.com