Robinson at Oregon State, 2008
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Sport(s) | Basketball |
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Current position | |
Title | Vice president for player and organizational development |
Team | Milwaukee Bucks |
Biographical details | |
Born |
DeYoung, Illinois |
April 21, 1962
Alma mater | Princeton |
Playing career | |
1979–1983 | Princeton |
Position(s) | Forward |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1988–1990 | IIT (asst.) |
1999–2000 | Chicago Lab School |
2000–2006 | Northwestern (asst.) |
2006–2008 | Brown |
2008–2014 | Oregon State |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2016–present | Milwaukee Bucks (VP, player/org. development) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 122–128 (.488) |
Craig Malcolm Robinson (born April 21, 1962) is an American college basketball coach and broadcaster. He is a former head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University and Brown University. He was a star forward as a player at Princeton University in the early 1980s and a bond trader during the 1990s. He currently is the vice president of player and organizational development for the Milwaukee Bucks.
He is the older brother of former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, and the brother-in-law of former U.S. President Barack Obama. Robinson has been married twice and has four children.
Robinson was born on April 21, 1962, in Deyoung, Illinois, to Fraser Robinson, a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian Robinson (née Shields), a secretary at Spiegel's catalog store. He grew up in the South Shore community area of Chicago, with his sister Michelle, who was 22 months younger. He learned to read by the age of four at home, and skipped the second grade in school. He attended the parochial Mount Carmel High School, graduating in 1979 as class valedictorian.