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{{short description|American basketball player and coach}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name         = Quinn Buckner
| image        = Quinn Buckner.jpg
|caption       = Buckner as a member of the Boston Celtics in 1985. 
| height_ft    = 6
| height_in    = 3
| weight_lb    = 190
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1954|8|20}}
| birth_place  = [[Phoenix, Illinois]], U.S.
| high_school  = [[Thornridge High School|Thornridge]] ([[Dolton, Illinois]])
| college      = [[Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball|Indiana]] (1972–1976)
| draft_year   = 1976
| draft_round  = 1
| draft_pick   = 7
| draft_team   = [[Milwaukee Bucks]]
| career_start = 1976
| career_end   = 1986
| career_number = 21, 28, 25
| career_position = [[Point guard]]
| years1       = {{nbay|1976|start}}–{{nbay|1981|end}}
| team1        = [[Milwaukee Bucks]]
| years2       = {{nbay|1982|start}}–{{nbay|1984|end}}
| team2        = [[Boston Celtics]]
| years3       = {{nbay|1985|full=y}}
| team3        = [[Indiana Pacers]]
| cyears1      = {{nbay|1993|full=y}}
| cteam1       = [[Dallas Mavericks]]
| highlights   = 
* [[NBA champion]] ([[1984 NBA Finals|1984]])
* 4× [[NBA All-Defensive Second Team]] ([[1977–78 NBA season|1978]], [[1979–80 NBA season|1980]]–[[1981–82 NBA season|1982]])
* [[List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball champions|NCAA champion]] ([[1976 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|1976]])
* [[Collegiate Commissioners Association Tournament|CCAT]] ([[1974 Collegiate Commissioners Association Tournament|1974]])
* Third-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] – [[National Association of Basketball Coaches|NABC]] ([[1975 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1975]])
* 2× First-team All-[[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]] (1974, 1975)
* [[Mr. Basketball USA]] (1972)
* First-team [[Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team|''Parade'' All-American]] (1972)
| CBBASKHOF_year = 2015
| stat1label    = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
| stat1value    = 5,929 (8.2 ppg)
| stat2label    = [[Assist (basketball)|Assists]]
| stat2value    = 3,114 (4.3 apg)
| stat3label    = [[Steal (basketball)|Steals]]
| stat3value    = 1,337 (1.9 spg)
| medal_templates = 
{{MedalSport|Men's [[basketball]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{flagu|United States}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Basketball at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Montreal]]| [[Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics|Team competition]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIBA World Championship]]}}
{{MedalBronze |[[1974 FIBA World Championship|1974 Puerto Rico]] | [[1974 FIBA World Championship|Team competition]]}}
}}
'''William Quinn Buckner''' (born August 20, 1954) is an American former professional [[basketball]] player and coach.  He played collegiate basketball for the [[Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball|Indiana University Hoosiers]], and won a national championship in [[1975–76 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1976]]. He was a captain of both the last undefeated [[List of NCAA Division I men's basketball champions|NCAA Division I basketball champion]] and the [[Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Olympics]] [[1976 United States men's Olympic basketball team|gold medal team]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-07-19|title=Quinn Buckner|url=http://www.foxsports.com/indiana/story/quinn-buckner-071918|access-date=2021-04-16|work=Fox Sports|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The 7 undefeated college basketball national champions in the NCAA tournament era {{!}} NCAA.com|url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2021-03-31/7-undefeated-college-basketball-national-champions-ncaa-tournament-era|access-date=2021-04-16|publisher=NCAA|language=en}}</ref> Buckner was selected by the [[Milwaukee Bucks]] with the 7th pick of the [[1976 NBA draft]].  He had a ten-year NBA career for three teams (the Bucks, the [[Boston Celtics]], and the [[Indiana Pacers]]).  In [[1983–84 NBA season|1984]], he won an NBA title with the Celtics.

Buckner is one of only eight players in history to achieve a [[Triple Crown (American basketball)|basketball Triple Crown]] — winning an [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] championship, an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal. He is one of only three players in history to win a [[Secondary school|High School]] state championship, NCAA championship, an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal. He also was a State Champion while playing high school basketball in Illinois.

In addition to his playing career, Buckner was the head coach of the [[Dallas Mavericks]] for one year, from [[1993–94 NBA season|1993 to 1994]].  Currently, Buckner is a color analyst for the Indiana Pacers television broadcast team on [[Bally Sports Indiana]]. Buckner also was the play-by-play announcer on [[989 Sports]] line of college basketball games for several years.

==Early life==
Born in 1954 in [[Phoenix, Illinois]], Buckner played basketball at [[Thornridge High School]] in [[Dolton, Illinois]]. His Falcons lost only one game during his junior and senior seasons and won back-to-back state titles.  The 1972 team was undefeated, with no team coming within 14 points of it, and is often cited as the greatest team in the history of Illinois high school basketball.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ihsa.org/News-Media/Illinois-HStoric|title=Illinois H.S.toric &#124; News & Media|publisher=Illinois High School Association|access-date=February 3, 2022}}</ref> Buckner was also an excellent football player, making all-state in high school. He is the only person ever named Chicago area Player of the Year for both football and basketball.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tC2tOKqd3bQC&q=%22quinn+buckner%22+football+thornridge&pg=PA107|title=Glory Days Illinois: Legends of Illinois High School Basketball|isbn=9781582619453|last1=Bell|first1=Taylor|year=2006|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC }}</ref>

In 2006, Buckner was voted as one of the [[100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament]], a group of former players and coaches in honor of the 100 anniversary of the [[Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship|IHSA boys basketball tournament]].

==College career==
Buckner earned undergraduate degree in business from [[Kelley School of Business]] at [[Indiana University Bloomington]] in 1976.<ref>{{cite web| url =https://www.nba.com/pacers/broadcast-team/quinn-buckner| title = 
Quinn Buckner|publisher=[[National Basketball Association]]|accessdate=21 May 2025}}</ref> He was elected to play college basketball for the [[Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball|Indiana University Hoosiers]] under Coach [[Bob Knight]]. He ended his college career as a four-year starter and three-year captain at Indiana, and also played football for one year. He seemed to get along with volatile Coach Knight better than any other player in the Hoosiers' history. "The one thing that I learned early was to respect authority figures, right or wrong", Buckner told the ''[[Dallas Morning News]]'' concerning his relationship with Knight.

In Buckner's freshman season, 1972–73, Indiana reached the Final Four, losing to [[1972–73 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team|UCLA]]. He played for the [[United States men's national basketball team]] in the [[1974 FIBA World Championship]], winning the bronze medal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usabasketball.com/history/mwc_1974.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824211234/http://www.usabasketball.com/history/mwc_1974.html|url-status=dead|title=1974 USA Basketball|archive-date=August 24, 2007|access-date=February 3, 2022}}</ref> In two consecutive seasons, [[1974–75 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1974–75]] and [[1975–76 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1975–76]], the Hoosiers were undefeated in the regular season and won 37-consecutive Big Ten games. The [[1974–75 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1974–75]] Hoosiers swept the entire Big Ten by an average of 22.8 points per game. However, in an 83–82 win against [[Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball|Purdue]] they lost consensus All-American forward [[Scott May]] to a broken left arm. With May's injury keeping him to 7 minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to [[1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team|Kentucky]] 92–90 in the [[1975 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|Mideast Regional]]. Buckner, along with three of his teammates, would make the five-man All-Big Ten team.

The following season, [[1975–76 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1975–76]], Buckner served as a co-captain and the Hoosiers went the entire season and [[1976 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|1976 NCAA tournament]] without a single loss, beating [[1975–76 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team|Michigan]] 86–68 in the title game. Indiana remains the last school to accomplish this feat.<ref>{{cite news | first=Dave | last=Dorr | url=http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/sports2000/trends/150673.html | title=A perfect season | website=Sporting News | date=April 10, 1976 | access-date=March 28, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000229072546/http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/sports2000/trends/150673.html | archive-date=February 29, 2000 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/sports/hh/1976/| title=Hoosier Historia | website=The Herald Times | access-date=March 28, 2008 }}</ref>

==NBA career==
In Buckner's 10-year NBA career he was a tough defender, a solid playmaker, and a stabilizing force in any lineup. At various stages he filled the role of team leader and trusty reserve.

Although he scored only 10.0 points per game during his college career, Buckner was selected by the [[Milwaukee Bucks]] in the first round of the [[1976 NBA draft]], the seventh pick overall. He was also selected by the [[Washington Redskins]] in the [[1976 NFL draft]]. (Buckner had played free safety on the Hoosiers’ football team for two years.)

Before he joined the Bucks, Buckner played on the gold medal-winning 1976 U.S. Olympic basketball team alongside [[Adrian Dantley]], [[Mitch Kupchak]], and [[Scott May]]. But nothing could have prepared him for the NBA experience. Buckner's teams had suffered only 25 defeats in his eight years of high school and college basketball, and he had never been on a team that lost more than seven games in a season. But Milwaukee lost 52 times in 1976–77, finishing last in the Midwest Division.

Individually, Buckner proved to be a competent NBA player. He was unspectacular offensively, averaging 8.6 points while shooting .434 from the field, but he excelled on defense, ranking fourth in the league with 2.43 steals per game.

The next year Buckner raised his scoring slightly, to 9.3 points per game, and was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. That postseason, Buckner set a playoffs career-high with 19 points alongside recording 10 assists in a Game 7 loss against the [[Denver Nuggets]] in the conference semifinals (the Bucks were in the Western Conference at the time).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/197805030DEN.html|title=Milwaukee Bucks at Denver Nuggets Box Score, May 3, 1978|website=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=February 3, 2022}}</ref> After a similar season in 1978–79, Buckner had his three best years. In 1979–80 he averaged 10.7 points and 5.7 assists, made the NBA All-Defensive Second Team for the second time, and helped the Bucks to the Midwest Division title. Under Coach [[Don Nelson]], Milwaukee had assembled a solid lineup that included forward [[Marques Johnson]], center [[Bob Lanier]], and guards [[Brian Winters]], [[Sidney Moncrief]], and [[Junior Bridgeman]].

The 1980–81 campaign saw Buckner play in all 82 games and notch career highs in scoring (13.3 ppg), field-goal percentage (.493), free-throw percentage (.734), and steals (197, third in the league). He repeated on the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. The Bucks were outstanding, finishing 60–22 with a balanced offense that saw seven players average in double figures. Milwaukee had high hopes for the postseason, but [[Julius Erving]]'s [[Philadelphia 76ers]] derailed the Bucks in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

Buckner had established a reputation as a solid, dependable player with good fundamentals. He was never going to be a flashy player or a big scorer; his low-trajectory shot was jokingly said to have been responsible for more bent rims than [[Darryl Dawkins]]'s dunks.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

"My strength is defense," he said in the ''[[Boston Globe]]''. "Another is my overall knowledge of the game and being able to get everybody involved in the game. I’ve never had an illusion that shooting is one of my strengths. In fact, it was a very known weakness that I had.…You play with a lot of pride and work hard every night out."

Milwaukee was trying to add a few essential parts that would turn the team into a championship contender, and the bottleneck at guard made Buckner expendable.

Before the 1982–83 season he was traded to the Boston Celtics for center [[Dave Cowens]]. When Boston acquired Buckner, [[Red Auerbach]] told the ''Boston Globe'', "He's a winner, a leader. He rises to the occasion. He has a good personality, he's team oriented, and he's disciplined." Buckner added, "I’ve always admired the Boston style of play, and I feel I can play it."

Milwaukee never did win the title. Boston, however, won a championship in 1984, with Buckner coming off the bench to spell [[Dennis Johnson]] and [[Gerald Henderson]]. The Celtics went 62–20 during the regular season and then nudged the [[Los Angeles Lakers]] in a seven-game NBA Finals. With the NBA championship ring, Buckner completed a [[Triple Crown (American basketball)|Triple Crown]] résumé, one of only eight players in basketball history to do so.<ref>{{cite news |last=Beslic |first= Stephen|date=November 11, 2022 |title=Eight players who have won NCAA, NBA, and Olympic titles |url=https://www.basketballnetwork.net/latest-news/seven-players-who-have-won-ncaa-nba-and-olympic-titles |work= Basketball Network|location= |access-date=November 27, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Cohn|first=Jordan |date= October 11, 2020|title= Anthony Davis joins 7 other players to win NBA Finals, NCAA Championship, Olympic gold medal|url=https://www.audacy.com/thefandc/sports/nba/anthony-davis-joins-basketballs-triple-crown-club |work=[[106.7 The Fan]] |location= |access-date=November 27, 2024}}</ref>

In three seasons with Boston, Buckner made small but regular contributions for a powerful Celtics team. The club returned to the Finals in 1985, but the Lakers exacted their revenge, winning in six games.

Following the season, Boston traded Buckner to the [[Indiana Pacers]] for guard [[Jerry Sichting]]. He opened the 1985–86 season with the Pacers but was waived after 32 games, and subsequently retired, ending his 10-year career.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bucknqu01.html|title=Quinn Buckner Stats|website=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=February 3, 2022}}</ref>

==NBA career statistics==
{{NBA player statistics legend}}

===Regular season===
{{NBA player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1976–77 NBA season|1976–77]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1976-77 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| 79 || – || 26.5 || .434 || – || .539 || 3.3 || 4.7 || 2.4 || '''0.3''' || 8.6
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1977–78 NBA season|1977–78]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1977-78 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| '''82''' || – || 25.3 || .468 || – || .645 || 3.0 || 5.6 || 2.3 || 0.2 || 9.3
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1978–79 NBA season|1978–79]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1978-79 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| 81 || – || 21.7 || .454 || – || .632 || 2.6 || '''5.8''' || 1.9 || 0.2 || 7.2
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1979–80 NBA season|1979–80]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1979-80 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| 67 || – || 25.2 || .467 || '''.400''' || '''.734''' || '''3.6''' || 5.7 || 2.0 || 0.1 || 10.7
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1980–81 NBA season|1980–81]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1980-81 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| '''82''' || – || 29.1 || '''.493''' || .167 || '''.734''' || '''3.6''' || 4.7 || 2.4 || 0.0 || '''13.3'''
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1981–82 NBA season|1981–82]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1981-82 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| 70 || '''70''' || '''30.8''' || .482 || .267 || .655 || '''3.6''' || 4.7 || '''2.5''' || 0.0 || 12.9
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1982–83 NBA season|1982–83]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1982-83 Boston Celtics season|Boston]]
| 72 || 56 || 21.7 || .442 || .000 || .632 || 2.6 || 3.8 || 1.5 || 0.1 || 7.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;" | [[1983–84 NBA season|1983–84]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1983-84 Boston Celtics season|Boston]]
| 79 || 0 || 15.8 || .427 || .000 || .649 || 1.7 || 2.7 || 1.1 || 0.0 || 4.1
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1984–85 NBA season|1984–85]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1984-85 Boston Celtics season|Boston]]
| 75 || 6 || 11.4 || .383 || .000 || .640 || 1.2 || 2.0 || 0.8 || 0.0 || 2.4
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1985–86 NBA season|1985–86]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1985-86 Indiana Pacers season|Indiana]]
| 32 || 3 || 13.1 || .471 || .000 || .704 || 1.6 || 2.7 || 1.3 || 0.1 || 3.7
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 719 || <u>135</u> || 22.6 || .461 || .184 || .657 || 2.7 || 4.3 || 1.9 || 0.1 || 8.2
|}

===Playoffs===
{{NBA player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1977–78 NBA season|1977–78]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1977-78 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| 9 || – || '''28.6''' || .500 || – || .652 || '''3.0''' || '''6.9''' || 2.0 || '''0.1''' || '''11.2'''
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1979–80 NBA season|1979–80]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1979-80 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| 7 || – || 23.6 || .340 || .000 || .636 || 2.3 || 4.4 || '''2.1''' || 0.0 || 6.1
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1980–81 NBA season|1980–81]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1980-81 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| 7 || – || 26.1 || .433 || .000 || '''.688''' || 2.9 || 5.0 || 1.6 || 0.0 || 9.0
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1982–83 NBA season|1982–83]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1982-83 Boston Celtics season|Boston]]
| 7 || – || 14.0 || .432 || .000 || .000 || 1.4 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 0.0 || 4.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;" | [[1983–84 NBA season|1983–84]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1983-84 Boston Celtics season|Boston]]
| '''23''' || – || 11.7 || .405 || .000 || .545 || 1.5 || 1.2 || 0.6 || 0.0 || 3.3
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[1984–85 NBA season|1984–85]]
| style="text-align:left" | [[1984-85 Boston Celtics season|Boston]]
| 15 || 0 || 5.7 || '''.591''' || .000 || .625 || 0.5 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 0.0 || 2.1
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 68 || <u>0</u> || 15.5 || .439 || .000 || .610 || 1.7 || 2.5 || 0.9 || 0.0 || 5.1
|}

==Broadcasting career==
He later on became a broadcaster for [[ESPN]] and [[NBC]]. He also called college and NBA basketball for [[CBS Sports]] and called games for the [[Minnesota Timberwolves]] in the early 1990s with [[Kevin Harlan]], as well as games for the [[Cleveland Cavaliers]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibj.com/articles/17023-buckner-relishes-role-as-executive-iu-great-recalls-lessons-from-knight-bird|title=Buckner relishes role as executive: IU great recalls lessons from Knight, Bird|first=Anthony|last=Schoettle|website=Indiana Business Journal |access-date=February 3, 2022}}</ref>

Buckner now calls Indianapolis his home and is the color commentator for [[Indiana Pacers]] television broadcasts (on [[Fox Sports Indiana]] from 1999 to 2021 and Bally Sports Indiana since 2021). Buckner participates in community relations efforts and contributes to Pacers TipOff, a game preview newsletter distributed via e-mail for every home Pacers game.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nba.com/pacers/media/quinn_buckner_bio.html|title=Quinn Buckner|publisher=NBA |access-date=February 3, 2022}}</ref>

==Coaching career==
He was named head coach of the [[Dallas Mavericks]] for 1993&ndash;94. The club had gone 11&ndash;71 the previous season, and the franchise was in disarray. Although Buckner had no [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] coaching experience, Mavericks owner [[Don Carter (businessman)|Don Carter]] hoped Buckner's charismatic personality and lifelong knack for winning would rub off on the young team. In an interview with the ''[[Arizona Republic]]'', Buckner repeated his success formula: "Dedication, commitment, extreme concentration, discipline, realizing it can’t be done alone, it has to be done through the team."

Believing that his young charges needed more discipline, Buckner determined from the start to be a stern taskmaster in Knight's mold. Knight had advised Buckner that he would only be able to win in the NBA if he ran his team with an iron hand.<ref name=Tribune>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-05-04-9405040137-story.html|title=Mavericks show Buckner door|author1=Sam Smith|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=May 4, 1994}}</ref>  The plan backfired, with many of the players (including [[Jamal Mashburn]]) complaining publicly about Buckner's heavy-handed coaching style. NBA historian Peter Bjarkman even suggested that Buckner frequently consulted with Knight during the season.  They started 1&ndash;23, and for a while it looked like they would break the 1972&ndash;73 [[Philadelphia 76ers]]' [[1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers season|record]] for the most losses in a season.  Buckner loosened the reins a little bit as the season wore on, but it was not enough to keep the team from finishing 13&ndash;69—by far the worst record in the league, and at the time the worst record ever for a rookie coach who managed to survive for a full season (surpassed by [[Bill Hanzlik]] with the [[1997-98 Denver Nuggets season|1997&ndash;98 Denver Nuggets]]).

Buckner also angered Carter and other executives by not consulting them on hiring assistant coaches; they only learned about those hires when they called and asked how much they would get for moving expenses. Although Buckner had a five-year contract, Carter decided that "too many bridges had been burned" and fired him after the season.<ref name=Tribune/>

===Head coaching record===
{{NBA coach statistics legend}}
{{NBA coach statistics start}}
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[1993–94 Dallas Mavericks season|Dallas]]
|style="text-align:left"|{{nbay|1993}}
| 82 || 13 || 69 || {{Winning percentage|13|69}} ||style="text-align:center"|6th in Midwest || – || – || – || {{Winning percentage|0|0}}
|style="text-align:center"|Missed Playoffs
|- class="sortbottom"
|style="text-align:left"|'''Career'''
| || 82 || 13 || 69 || {{Winning percentage|13|69}} ||style="text-align:center"| || – || – || – || {{Winning percentage|0|0}} ||
{{s-end}}

==Personal life==
In July 2004, Buckner was named the Vice President of Communications for Pacers Sports & Entertainment (PS&E), which owns and operates the [[Indiana Pacers]], the [[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]]'s [[Indiana Fever]] and the Pacers Foundation, Inc.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Former IU star Quinn Buckner named to board of trustees |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2016/06/03/former-iu-star-quinn-buckner-named-board-trustees/85338692/ |website=The Indianapolis Star}}</ref>

In 2016, Buckner was appointed to the [[Indiana University]] Board of Trustees by Governor [[Mike Pence]] and is the current chair of the board.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Everything you need to know about the IU Board of Trustees |url=https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/02/iu-board-of-trustees-everything-you-need-to-know |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=Everything you need to know about the IU Board of Trustees - Indiana Daily Student |language=en-US}}</ref>

Buckner has four children with his wife Rhonda; Jason, Cory, Lauren and Alexsandra.

He is a member of [[Alpha Phi Alpha]] fraternity.

==See also==
* [[List of National Basketball Association single-game steals leaders]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.nba.com/pacers/media/quinn_buckner_bio.html Indiana Pacers: Quinn Buckner, Cable TV Color Analyst]
* [https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/bucknqu01c.html BasketballReference.com: Quinn Buckner (as coach)]
* [https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bucknqu01.html BasketballReference.com: Quinn Buckner (as player)]

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