College - Rutgers
The 2006-07 campaign marks Eddie Jordan’s fourth season at the helm in Washington, and the Washington, DC product continues to make his homecoming a special one. Born and raised in Washington, Jordan returned to DC prior to the 2003-04 season, and in just his second season with the Wizards in 2004-05, Jordan guided the team to its first Playoff appearance in eight years and its first postseason series win since 1982. In the follow-up season in 2005-06, the Wizards finished the regular season at 42-20, as Jordan, the NBA Eastern Conference’s longest tenured Head Coach, took the franchise advance to the Playoffs in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1986-87 and 1987-88.

Signed to an extension during the summer of 2006, Jordan’s influence on his young and talented team is evident. Jordan saw Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison selected to the All-Star team for the first time in their careers in 2005, guided Arenas to back-to-back All-NBA seasons in 2005 and 2006, and presided over the career-best seasons of Caron Butler in 2005-06 and Larry Hughes in 2004-05. With one of the league’s youngest nucleuses, Jordan and the Wizards enjoyed the franchise’s best season since 1978-79 in 2004-05, established a new record for wins in a season at Verizon Center in that same season, and earned the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference in consecutive years to achieve an organizational goal of becoming perennial playoff contenders.

Jordan won his 100th career game as a head coach on April 11, 2005, and improved his career record to 145-198 after the 2005-06 regular season. Last season, among many highlights for Jordan’s Wizards, he won his 100th game as the team’s Head Coach on March 5th versus Sacramento, and guided Washington to 27 home wins.

After compiling a 25-57 record in his first season in Washington, Jordan guided the Wizards to a 20-game improvement in 2004-05. Despite using 16 different starting line-ups on account of a myriad of injuries (314 totals games), only two teams saw a bigger improvement in the win column from the previous year. The 2004-05 season was highlighted by the Wizards’ series win against the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the NBA playoffs; a series in which Jordan’s Wizards rallied from a 0-2 deficit to take the series with four consecutive wins.

Jordan was introduced as head coach of the Washington Wizards on June 19, 2003 after serving as the lead assistant of the New Jersey Nets for the previous four seasons. With Jordan’s tutelage and offensive system, the Nets won consecutive Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference Championships in 2002 and 2003.

Jordan joined the Nets coaching staff on March 17, 1999. Prior to his arrival in New Jersey, Jordan spent the 1997-98 campaign and the final 15 games of the 1996-97 season as head coach of the Sacramento Kings, where he compiled a 33-64 record. He was an assistant coach with the Kings for five seasons before being named head coach on March 20, 1997.

After retiring from the NBA in 1984, Jordan was a volunteer assistant at Rutgers University under his former college head coach, and current Wizards’ assistant, Tom Young. Jordan followed Young to Old Dominion as a part-time assistant before landing an assistant coaching position at Boston College under Jim O'Brien in 1986, and at his alma mater in 1988.

Originally selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the 1977 NBA Draft (33rd overall), Jordan was acquired by New Jersey midway through his rookie year. As a New Jersey Net, Jordan led the league in total steals in 1978-79 and was second in total steals in 1979-80.

Jordan joined the Los Angeles Lakers during the 1980-81 campaign, where he subsequently played four seasons, and was a member of the 1982 NBA World Championship squad. He also played briefly with the Portland Trail Blazers before concluding his professional career after the 1983-84 season. In his seven-year career, Jordan averaged 8.1 points, 3.8 assists and 1.82 steals per game.

As a collegian, Jordan led Rutgers to the 1976 NCAA Final Four in his Junior year, and was named East Regional MVP. In his senior season, he was named honorable mention All-America, while setting Rutgers all-time career records in assists (585) and steals (220). Jordan graduated from Rutgers in 1977 with a degree in health and physical education.

Jordan was born in Washington, D.C. and is a 1973 graduate of Archbishop Carroll High School where he enjoyed a standout basketball and football career. Jordan has recently created a program called Coach Jordan’s Neighborhood “8”, through which community groups in the District’s Ward 8 can attend a Wizards’ home game courtesy of Jordan.

Eddie and his wife, Charrisse, have two children, a son, Jackson (8), and daughter, Skylar (6). Eddie also has three sons, Justin, a recent graduate of New York School of the Arts; Eddie II, who followed in his father’s footsteps at Rutgers University, where he played football; and Paul, who resides in D.C. Eddie II graduated from Rutgers in May, 2005 and is currently attending his alma mater for graduate school. Charrisse Jordan was recently appointed as President of “Behind the Bench”, a non-profit organization developed by the National Basketball Wives Association, which raises funds and awareness for charities that benefit women and children.