Robert Pack
Pack in 2011 as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers
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| New Orleans Pelicans | |
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| Position | Assistant coach |
| League | NBA |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
February 3, 1969 New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Listed weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Alfred Lawless (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| College |
Tyler JC (1987–1989) USC (1989–1991) |
| NBA draft | 1991 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 1991–2005 |
| Career history | |
| As player: | |
| 1991–1992 | Portland Trail Blazers |
| 1992–1995 | Denver Nuggets |
| 1995–1996 | Washington Bullets |
| 1996–1997 | New Jersey Nets |
| 1997–2000 | Dallas Mavericks |
| 2000–2001 | Denver Nuggets |
| 2002 | Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 2003 | New Orleans Hornets |
| 2004 | New Jersey Nets |
| 2003–2004 | Valencia BC |
| 2004–2005 | Žalgiris Kaunas |
| As coach: | |
| 2009–2010 | New Orleans Hornets (assistant) |
| 2010–2013 | Los Angeles Clippers (assistant) |
| 2013–2015 | Oklahoma City Thunder (assistant) |
| 2015–present | New Orleans Pelicans (assistant) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Robert John Pack, Jr. (born February 3, 1969) is an American retired professional basketball player and an assistant coach for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The 6 ft 2 in tall point guard had a thirteen-season career in the association.
Pack attended Alfred Lawless High School in New Orleans. He was a high school teammate of future NBA player Eldridge Recasner and graduated from Lawless in 1987. He then attended Tyler Junior College for two years, transferred to the University of Southern California in 1989, and graduated with a degree in sociology in 1991. He averaged 13.4 points per game and 5.3 assists in his two seasons at USC.
Pack was not drafted by an NBA team, rather he began his career by being signed as a free agent by the Portland Trail Blazers on September 16, 1991. He made the team by beating out veteran Walter Davis and played 72 games for the Blazers as a rookie, averaging 4.6 points/game in 12.4 MPG as he was entrenched behind veterans Terry Porter and Danny Ainge. The Blazers went to the NBA Finals that year, before losing the series, 4–2, to the Chicago Bulls. During the 1992 off-season, after the Blazers signed free agent point guard Rod Strickland, Pack was traded to the Nuggets for a 1993 second-round draft pick.
Pack spent three seasons with the Nuggets from 1992–93 until 1994–95, with his minutes and games started increasing each season. He was part of a young Nuggets team starring Dikembe Mutombo, LaPhonso Ellis and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf that became the first eighth-seeded team in NBA history to defeat the first-seeded team as the Nuggets defeated the Seattle SuperSonics in the first round of the 1994 Western Conference Playoffs. Pack was then traded to the Washington Bullets for Doug Overton and Don MacLean on October 30, 1995. Injuries slowed Pack during the prime years of his career, as he never played a full 82-game season. In 31 games for the Bullets, Pack averaged 18.1 ppg, 7.8 apg, 4.3 rpg and 2.00 spg in what was his best season statistically. Prior to the 1996–97 season he was signed by the New Jersey Nets before being traded mid-season to the Dallas Mavericks along with Shawn Bradley, Ed O'Bannon and Khalid Reeves for Sam Cassell, Chris Gatling, Jim Jackson, George McCloud and Eric Montross. Pack remained with the Mavericks through the end of the 1999–00 season, never playing more than the 54 games he played in 1996–97 as injuries slowed his career.
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