Mark Price

This article is about the basketball player. For other uses, see Mark Price (disambiguation).
Mark Price
Charlotte 49ers
Position Head coach
League Conference USA
Personal information
Born (1964-02-15) February 15, 1964
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Nationality American
Listed height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight 175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
High school Enid (Enid, Oklahoma)
College Georgia Tech (1982–1986)
NBA draft 1986 / Round: 2 / Pick: 25th overall
Selected by the Dallas Mavericks
Playing career 1986–1998
Position Point guard
Number 25, 15, 5
Career history
As player:
1986–1995 Cleveland Cavaliers
1995–1996 Washington Bullets
1996–1997 Golden State Warriors
1997–1998 Orlando Magic
As coach:
1998–1999 Duluth HS (assistant)
1999–2000 Georgia Tech (assistant)
2000–2001 Whitfield Academy
2006 South Dragons
2007–2008 Denver Nuggets (assistant)
2008–2010 Atlanta Hawks (assistant)
2010–2011 Golden State Warriors (assistant)
2011–2012 Orlando Magic (assistant)
2013–2015 Charlotte Bobcats / Hornets (assistant)
2015–present Charlotte 49ers
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points 10,989 (15.2 ppg)
Assists 4,863 (6.7 apg)
Rebounds 1,848 (2.6 rpg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing  United States
Pan American Games
1983 Caracas Team competition
FIBA World Championship
1994 Canada Team competition

William Mark Price (born February 15, 1964) is the current head coach of the Charlotte 49ers and a former American basketball player who 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

Standing at an even 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 Most Valuable Player for the 1984–85 season and his jersey was retired.[1]

NBA

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 power.

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[2] and a 40% three-point field goal shooting percentage.[3] 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 seven 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[4]),[5] twice won the Three Point Contest, and was a four-time All-Star. Price was named to the All-NBA First Team after the 1992–93 season.[6] Price currently ranks second in franchise steals with 734, a Cavaliers record that stood until December 9, 2008 when LeBron James surpassed him.[7]

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."[8]

He played for the US national team also known as Dream Team II, in the 1994 FIBA World Championship, winning the gold medal.[9]

Washington Wizards

He 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.

Golden State Warriors

Price spent one year with the Golden State Warriors.

Orlando Magic

Price was a member of the Orlando Magic, where he played his final season. He retired in 1998.

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.[10]

Family

His brother Brent Price also played for more than ten years in the NBA.

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-Hodgkins 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.[11]

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.[12] NBA player Josh Smith also played at Whitefield Academy the same season Price was coach.[13][14]

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, before being fired after the team stumbled to a 0-5 start.[15] The coaching job was later taken over by player Shane Heal. Heal was fired the following year after the Dragons finished last in the NBL for the 2007-08 season.[16]

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 2008–2009 and 2009–2010 seasons.[17] 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.[18]

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.[19] 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.[20]

In December 2011, Price was hired as a player development coach for the Orlando Magic.[21] In July 2012, Price served as the head coach of the Orlando Magic's Summer League team.[22]

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.[23]

On March 25, 2015, Price accepted a 5-year, $500,000 with incentive bonuses contract to become the head coach of the Charlotte 49ers.[24] He was introduced to the public as head coach the next afternoon.[25] He replaced Coach Alan Major, who parted ways with Charlotte after two medical leaves during the past season.[26]

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

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 0.115.2

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1988 Cleveland 5541.0.567.417.9603.67.60.60.021.0
1989 Cleveland 4439.5.386.375.9333.35.50.80.016.0
1990 Cleveland 5538.4.525.3531.0002.88.81.80.220.0
1992 Cleveland 171735.5.496.362.9042.57.51.40.219.2
1993 Cleveland 9932.0.443.308.9582.16.11.70.013.0
1994 Cleveland 3334.0.349.222.9292.04.71.30.015.0
1995 Cleveland 4435.8.300.235.9703.06.51.50.015.0
Career 474736.0.464.337.9442.67.01.40.117.4

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Charlotte (Conference USA) (2015–present)
2015–16 Charlotte 14–19 9–9 7th
Charlotte: 14–19 9–9
Total: 14–19

      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. ↑ Price Leads Georgia Tech "Mark Price NBA Stats" Check |url= value (help). basketball-reference.com. Archived from the original on July 3, 2015. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ NBA History (2006). All Time Leaders: Free Throw Percentage. Retrieved September 24, 2006.
  3. ↑ NBA History (2006). All Time Leaders: Three Point Field Goal Percentage. Retrieved September 24, 2006.
  4. ↑ http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12458334/lebron-james-passes-mark-price-most-assists-cleveland-cavaliers-history
  5. ↑ Cavaliers All-Time Leaders Retrieved July 16, 2007
  6. ↑ NBA.com: Postseason Awards - 1992-93
  7. ↑ LeBron, Ilgauskas set team records as Cavs win ninth straight
  8. ↑ http://www.cavsnews.com/20080622-1184.php
  9. ↑ 1994 USA Basketball
  10. ↑ GREATER ENID CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
  11. ↑ Sports Illustrated on Mark Price
  12. ↑ Price Ramps Up Whitefield Academy basketball program
  13. ↑ Josh Smith High School Bio
  14. ↑ Price Shatters Expectations
  15. ↑
  16. ↑ Heal Fired
  17. ↑ Mark Price joins Hawks as consultant, September 24, 2008
  18. ↑ Price hopes to help team improve shooting : Grizzlies : Commercial Appeal
  19. ↑ Mark Price aids Rondo's Improvement, June 2, 2010
  20. ↑ Mark Price Joins Warriors Coaching Staff, September 29, 2010
  21. ↑ Mark Price Hired as Player Development Coach
  22. ↑ Price Gaining Valuable Coaching Experience
  23. ↑ Bobcats name Patrick Ewing, Bob Beyer, Stephen Silas, Bob Weiss, Mark Price as assistant coaches
  24. ↑ Mark Price Brings 'Proven Ability To Develop Talent' To UNC Charlotte, March 26, 2015
  25. ↑ Mark Price to coach Charlotte 49ers, March 25, 2015
  26. ↑ Charlotte 49ers turn to Mark Price to revive basketball program, March 26, 2015

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