Stotts in 2015
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Portland Trail Blazers | |
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Position | Head coach |
League | NBA |
Personal information | |
Born |
Cedar Falls, Iowa |
November 25, 1957
Nationality | American |
Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
Listed weight | 220 lb (100 kg) |
Career information | |
High school |
Bloomington North (Bloomington, Indiana) |
College | Oklahoma (1976–1980) |
NBA draft | 1980 / Round: 2 / Pick: 38th overall |
Selected by the Houston Rockets | |
Playing career | 1980–1989 |
Position | Forward |
Coaching career | 1990–present |
Career history | |
As player: | |
1980 | Squibb Cantù |
1980–1983 | Montana Golden Nuggets |
1983–1984 | CB Estudiantes |
1985–1987 | Étoile de Voiron |
1988–1989 | Chorale Roanne |
1989–1990 | Sceaux Basket |
As coach: | |
1990–1991 | Albany Patroons (asst.) |
1991–1992 | Fort Wayne Fury (asst.) |
1992–1998 | Seattle SuperSonics (asst.) |
1998–2002 | Milwaukee Bucks (asst.) |
2002–2004 | Atlanta Hawks |
2004–2005 | Golden State Warriors (asst.) |
2005–2007 | Milwaukee Bucks |
2008–2012 | Dallas Mavericks (asst.) |
2012–present | Portland Trail Blazers |
Career highlights and awards | |
As assistant coach: As player:
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As player:
Terry Linn Stotts (born November 25, 1957) is an American retired professional basketball forward and the current head coach for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA. After a playing career in Europe and the Continental Basketball Association, where he played for George Karl, Stotts became a part of Karl's coaching staff on multiple teams in the CBA and NBA. He later got opportunities as a head coach for the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks, before helping the Dallas Mavericks win the 2011 NBA Championship as an assistant coach.
Born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Stotts grew up in Illinois, Wisconsin, Guam, and Indiana and graduated from Bloomington High School North in Bloomington, Indiana in 1976. Stotts was a member of the 1976 Indiana All-Star Team.
Stotts was a starter in all his four seasons with the University of Oklahoma Sooners basketball team and was an Academic All-American selection in his junior and senior seasons and an All-Big Eight Conference selection in his senior season. He graduated from Oklahoma in 1980 with a B.S. in zoology and a Master's in Business Administration from Oklahoma in 1988 on a postgraduate scholarship from the NCAA.