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John Starks (basketball player)

John Starks
John Starks in 2013.jpg
Starks at Madison Square Garden in 2013
Personal information
Born (1965-08-10) August 10, 1965 (age 51)
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight 180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
High school Central (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
College
NBA draft 1988 / Undrafted
Playing career 1988–2002
Position Shooting guard
Number 30, 3, 9
Career history
1988–1989 Golden State Warriors
1989–1990 Cedar Rapids Silver Bullets
1990 Memphis Rockers
19901998 New York Knicks
19992000 Golden State Warriors
2000 Chicago Bulls
20002002 Utah Jazz
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points 10,829 (12.5 ppg)
Rebounds 2,129 (2.5 rpg)
Assists 3,085 (3.6 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

John Levell Starks (born August 10, 1965) is an American retired professional basketball shooting guard. Starks was listed at 6'5" and 190 pounds during his NBA playing career. Although he was not drafted in the 1988 NBA draft after attending four colleges in his native Oklahoma, including Oklahoma State University, he gained fame while playing for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association in the 1990s.

Starks was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he attended Tulsa Central High School. At Tulsa Central, Starks played only one year on the basketball team. After high school, he enrolled at Rogers State College in 1984. While at Rogers State, Starks was on the "taxi squad" of the basketball team for backups to replace injured or suspended players; taxi squad players did not suit up and instead watched games from the stands. However, Starks was expelled from Rogers State for stealing another student's stereo equipment in retaliation for the student breaking into Starks' dorm room and the college holding him and his roommates financially responsible for the damage. Starks transferred to Northern Oklahoma College in spring 1985, made the basketball team there, and was sentenced to five days in jail for the robbery. He served the sentence during spring break. In the fall of 1985, Starks averaged 11 points per game with Northern Oklahoma but left the college after being caught in his dorm smoking cannabis. Having worked at a Safeway supermarket, Starks enrolled at Tulsa Junior College in the summer of 1986 to pursue a business degree. While playing intramural basketball, he came to the attention of Ken Trickey, the former coach of Oral Roberts University who was then starting a basketball program for Oklahoma Junior College. Starks played there for a season, then earned a scholarship at Oklahoma State University in 1988, where he finished his collegiate career.


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