Larry Farmer (basketball)
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Farmer as bench coach for Western Michigan University
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Assistant coach |
| Team | Western Michigan |
| Conference | Mid-American Conference |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | January 31, 1951 |
| Playing career | |
| 1970–1973 | UCLA |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1973–1981 | UCLA (asst.) |
| 1981–1984 | UCLA |
| 1985–1988 | Weber State |
| 1988–1990 | Qadsia Sporting Club |
| 1990–1991 | Golden State Warriors (asst.) |
| 1992–1997 | Kuwait national team |
| 1997–1998 | Rhode Island (asst.) |
| 1998–2004 | Loyola-Chicago |
| 2007–2010 | Hawaii (asst.) |
| 2010–2012 | Western Michigan (asst.) |
| 2012–2013 | NC State (dir. player dev.) |
| 2013–present | Western Michigan (asst.) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 166–179 (.481) |
Larry Farmer (born January 31, 1951) is an American college basketball coach and player. He currently is an assistant coach at Western Michigan University (WMU). This is his second stint as an assistant coach at WMU.
Farmer played his high school basketball at Manual High School in Denver, Colorado, from 1966-69. He nearly quit the sport as a sophomore, but stuck with it. Later, as a senior, he helped the Thunderbolts reach the state championship game.
In January 2017, Farmer was inducted into the Colorado High School Activities Association's Hall of Fame.
Farmer played at UCLA during the early 1970s under legendary coach John Wooden. He was a teammate of Bill Walton during the era when the Bruins won seven consecutive NCAA men's titles. He was the only player that participated in all the games for the UCLA teams that went 89–1 (.989), the best winning percentage in NCAA men's basketball history.
Farmer was drafted by both the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Denver Nuggets of the American Basketball Association (ABA). He did not play, but instead returned to UCLA to where he was an assistant basketball coach under John Wooden, Gene Bartow and Gary Cunningham, and Larry Brown from 1973 to 1981. When Brown resigned prior to the 1981–82 season, Farmer was elevated to head coach of the UCLA basketball team.
He was the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles from 1981 to 1984, guiding them to a 61–23 (.726) record. He had recruited Earvin "Magic" Johnson to come play at UCLA, but then told Johnson to hold off on a visit as he was more interested in Albert King. Neither played for UCLA.
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