College - Ohio State
Signature Knicks figure as player and coach completes his sixth full season (seventh season overall) on NY bench...Senior member of Knicks’ on-the-bench coaching staff; joined as assistant coach on Dec. 29, 2001. . .Owns overall mark of 17-27 as Knicks head coach (succeeded Lenny Wilkens and piloted NY to 16-27 mark over second half of 2004-05 season; also notched 120-110 win over Orlando as interim head coach on Jan 14, 2004)...Head coach of Knicks’ entries in 2003 Reebok Boston Summer Pro League and 2004 LA Summer Pro League in Long Beach...Playing career spanned 18 seasons (1981-82 thru 1998-99), three shy of all-time NBA record of 21 (Robert Parish, Kevin Willis)...One of only nine NBA players to appear in a game following 41st birthday (Parish, Willis, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bob Cousy, Nat Hickey, Charles Jones, John Stockton and newest addition Dikembe Mutombo)...Averaged 10.8 points and 5.9 rebounds for Pacers, Mavericks, Raptors and Knicks, scoring 11,944 points in 1,102 career games...Third in blocked shots (1,094) and seventh in total rebounds (4,494) on Pacers’ all-time franchise lists...Spent virtually all of final seven years as player with NY, one of two players (Patrick Ewing) on both Knicks Eastern Conference title teams in 1994 and 1999...Knicks tri-captain for three seasons (1996-97 through 1998-99)...Averaged 17.6 points at Ohio State...50 years old (Feb. 16, 1958; Columbus, OH)...Recreation major at Ohio State...Has two children - Erica (21) and Jabrille (15) - and lives in Stamford, CT.