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also posted averages of 8.8 assists and 4.1 boards while playing in 81 of 82 regular-season contests. During the 1997-98 NBA campaign, Stoudamire was traded to his hometown squad, the Portland Trail Blazers, and suited up in front of his home crowd for eight years (1997-98 through 200405). His final year in Portland was his best scoring season for the Trail Blazers, averaging 15.8 points. He played in 81 games and also averaged 5.7 assists and 3.8 rebounds. In that final year in Portland, Stoudamire scored a careerhigh 54 points versus the New Orleans Hornets on Jan. 14, 2005. Stoudamire’s 54-point performance is still the Trail Blazers’ single-game scoring record. From 2005-08, Stoudamire played in 118 games for the Grizzlies. He averaged 8.4 points, 4.6 assists and 2.6 rebounds in his two-plus years in Memphis. Stoudamire finished the final year (2007-08) of his career in San Antonio, where he saw action in 31 games.
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Birthdate.................................. September 3 Hometown.............................Portland, Ore. High School.................... Woodrow Wilson College................................. Arizona, 2008 (Bachelor’s)
Honors
1995-96................NBA Rookie of the Year NBA All-Rookie Team NBA Rookie All-Star Game MVP No. 7 overall draft pick (lottery) 1994-95...................All-America first team Wooden Award finalist (co) Pac-10 Player of the Year
Coaching History
2011-present................................. Memphis Assistant Coach 2009-11............ Memphis Grizzlies (NBA) Assistant Coach
title and an NCAA Tournament berth in 2010-11, and Williams’ assistance continued that trend of success in 2011-12. In his four months on staff, Williams helped the Tigers to a 26-9 record, a Conference USA sweep of the regular season and ASSISTANT COACH • SECOND YEAR tournament crowns and an ASHLAND UNIVERSITY, 1970 NCAA Tournament bid. In fact, Memphis went 21-7 with Williams on the bench (since Dec. immy Williams is in his second season on the Memphis staff in 2012- 11, 2011), including a stretch in which 13. He joined the Tigers program as an the Tigers won 20 of 23 games. Williams, a well-respected coach assistant coach in December of 2011 and served the remainder of the 2011- with expertise in big man development and zone defense, worked his magic 12 campaign. Williams arrived in the Bluff City with the Tigers’ post players in 201112, helping Tarik Black and Ferrakohn in the midst of growing positive moHall become two of the squad’s mostmentum for the Memphis program. The consistent performers down the stretch. Tigers had just come off a 25-10 camBlack, who shattered the Memphis paign, a Conference USA Tournament
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In his NBA career, Stoudamire played on six teams that advanced to the playoffs, including five with the Trail Blazers. Stoudamire was a member of the 1999-2000 Portland team that made it to the Western Conference championship series, before falling in seven games (4-3) to the Shaquille O’Neal-and-Kobe Bryant-led Los Angeles Lakers. Before his NBA career, Stoudamire played four seasons (1992-95) of collegiate basketball at the University of Arizona under Hall of Fame head coach Lute Olson. A 1994-95 consensus AllAmerica pick, Stoudamire was a Wooden Award National Player of the Year finalist and the co-Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year that same season. Stoudamire helped lead the Wildcats to a combined 101-24 record (.808 winning percentage), two Pac-12 Conference crowns (1993, 1994), four NCAA Tournament appearances (1992-95) and one NCAA Final Four (1994 in 2008-09................................................Rice Director of Player Development
Postseason History
2011-12........................................ Memphis NCAA Second Round 2010-11............................Memphis (NBA) Western Conference Semifinals 2007-08....................... San Antonio (NBA) Western Conference Finals 2002-03............................. Portland (NBA) Western Conference First Rd. 2001-02............................. Portland (NBA) Western Conference First Rd. 2000-01............................. Portland (NBA) Western Conference First Rd. 1999-2000......................... Portland (NBA) Western Conference Finals 1998-99............................. Portland (NBA) Western Conference Finals 1994-95.......................................... Arizona NCAA First Round
single-season field goal percentage mark (68.9 percent) in 2011-12, averaged 13.4 points and 5.0 boards while shooting 76.1 percent from the floor in the last 10 games of the campaign. Black, an All-Conference USA second team and All-C-USA Defensive Team pick, had averaged just 8.0 points and 3.3 rebounds and shot 58.8 percent from the field in the seven games prior to Williams’ arrival. Likewise, Hall improved under Williams’ guidance as the year progressed. Hall netted a seasonhigh 10 points on 5-of-5 field goals in the C-USA Tournament title game win over Marshall and followed that with a seven-point, six-board performance in the NCAA Tournament second round. Prior to joining the Tigers staff, Williams had been training players by himself and also working with players at the prestigious John Lucas Camp in Houston since 2007. Williams has coached 37 players
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Charlotte). He served as the team’s co-captain in the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons. Stoudamire is one of only two players (Gary Payton is the other) in Pac12 Conference history to score over 1,800 points, dish out over 600 assists and pull down over 400 rebounds in a career. He still ranks on the Arizona basketball career charts for scoring (6th with 1,849 points), assists (3rd with 663) and steals (8th with 174). He remains the only player in Wildcats hoops history with two 40-point performances in a career, with both coming in Pac-12 Conference road games at Stanford (45 points) and Washington State (40) in the 1994-95 season. That same campaign (1994-95), Stoudamire became the third player in the program’s history to record a tripledouble, posting 32 points, 12 boards and 14 assists versus Oregon on Feb. 25, 1995. 1993-94.......................................... Arizona NCAA Final Four 1992-93.......................................... Arizona NCAA First Round 1991-92.......................................... Arizona NCAA First Round
Conference Titles
2011-12........................................ Memphis Conference USA (regular season/tournament) 2007-08....................... San Antonio (NBA) Southwest Division title 1998-99............................. Portland (NBA) Pacific Division title 1993-94.......................................... Arizona Pac-10 Conference (regular season) 1992-93.......................................... Arizona Pac-10 Conference (regular season)
that went on to the National Basketball Association (NBA), including 15 first-round draft picks. Notables that Williams coached during his career include Dave Winfield, Mychal Thompson, Kevin McHale and Kevin Garnett. Thompson was the 1978 NBA Draft’s No. 1 overall pick by the Portland Trail Blazers, and McHale was the 1980 NBA Draft’s No. 3 overall selection by the Boston Celtics. In his most recent collegiate coaching stint prior to Memphis, Williams helped direct the Oklahoma State Cowboys to a 65-36 record and threestraight postseason appearances (2005 NCAA, 2006 and 2007 NIT) from 2004-07. The 2004-05 Oklahoma State squad went 26-7, won the Big 12 Conference Tournament and earned the league’s NCAA Tournament automatic bid. The Cowboys, coming off a 2004 NCAA Final Four appearance, advanced to the 2005 NCAA Tournament
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Memphis, the Western Conference No. 8 seed, upset No. 1 seed San Antonio 4-2 in the playoffs opening round, and then took No. 4 seed Oklahoma City to seven games, before dropping the hardfought series 4-3. In Stoudamire’s first season in Memphis, the 2009-10 Grizzlies just missed making the playoffs with a 40-42 overall record. Despite no postseason, Stoudamire was a member of the coaching staff that guided the Grizzlies to a 16game turnaround from the previous year (24-58 record in 2008-09). The former Arizona Wildcats basketball standout also coached the Grizzlies during the NBA’s 2010 Summer League in Las Vegas. Prior to his joining the Grizzlies staff, Stoudamire was the director of player development for the Rice Owls basketball program under head coach Ben Braun for the 2008-09 campaign. Before crossing over to the coaching staff ranks, Stoudamire played 13 seasons in the NBA from 1995-2008 for Toronto, Portland, Memphis and San Antonio. For his career, the 5-foot-10 guard averaged 13.4 points, 6.1 assists and 3.4 rebounds in 878 games. Nicknamed “Mighty Mouse,” Stoudamire was the No. 7 overall selection by the Toronto Raptors in the 1995 NBA Draft. In his first NBA season, he averaged 19.0 points, 9.3 assists (career best) and 4.0 rebounds and earned the 1995-96 NBA Rookie of the Year award. Stoudamire was also named to the NBA’s All-Rookie first team and received the NBA Rookie All-Star Game MVP honor. There was no sophomore jinx for Stoudamire in 1996-97. During his second NBA season with the Raptors, he averaged a career-best 20.2 points and
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