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{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1976)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox NBA biography
| name = Steve Goodrich
| image =
| size =
| position =[[Power forward (basketball)|Power forward]] / [[Center (basketball)|center]]
| number = 30, 54
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 10
| weight_lbs = 220
| nationality = American
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1976|3|18}}
| birth_place = [[Brussels]], Belgium
| death_date = 
| high_school = [[William Penn Charter School]]<br />([[Philadelphia|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]])
| college = [[Princeton Tigers men's basketball|Princeton]] (1994–1998)
| draftyear = 1998
| debutyear = 1998
| finalyear = 2004
| years1 = 1998
| team1  = [[CB Girona|Girona Gavis]]
| years2 = 1999
| team2  = [[UB La Palma]]
| years3 = 1999–2000
| team3  = [[Baltimore Bayrunners]]
| years4 = 2000–2001
| team4  = [[Olimpia Milano|Adecco Milano]]
| years5 = {{nbay|2000|end}}
| team5  = [[Chicago Bulls]] 
| years6 = {{nbay|2001|full=y}}
| team6  = [[New Jersey Nets]] 
| years7 = 2002 
| team7  = [[StadtSport Braunschweig]]
| years8 = 2002–2003
| team8  = [[Darüşşafaka S.K.|Darüşşafaka]]
| years9 = 2003–2004
| team9  = [[BC Kyiv]]
| highlights =
* [[Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year|Ivy League Player of the Year]] (1998)
| stats_league = NBA
| stat1label = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
| stat1value = 24
| stat2label = [[Rebound (basketball)|Rebounds]]
| stat2value = 26
| stat3label = [[Assist (basketball)|Assists]]
| stat3value = 11
| bbr = goodrst01
}}
'''Steven Withington Goodrich''' (born March 18, 1976) is a former [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) player who played [[center (basketball)|center]] for the [[Chicago Bulls]] and [[New Jersey Nets]] in the early 2000s. Goodrich averaged 1.1 [[points per game]] and 8.7 minutes per game during his NBA career.

==College career==
Goodrich was born in [[City of Brussels|Brussels]] in [[Belgium]] but he grew up in [[Philadelphia]]. After graduating from William Penn Charter High School in [[Philadelphia]], Goodrich played college basketball with the [[Princeton University|Princeton]] Tigers. As a center, he led the University to the NCAA tournament the final three years of his career. In the 1996 NCAA tournament, Goodrich would be remembered as the player who passed to Gabe Lewullis, who scored on a lay-up with 3.9 seconds left to eliminate defending national champion UCLA from the tournament. He was named the [[Ivy League]]'s Player of the Year in 1998 after being named all-conference as a junior. That season, Princeton rode him to a one-loss regular season (to North Carolina) and a No. 5 seed in the East Regional section of the NCAA tournament, where they beat UNLV in the first round.<ref name="sports.espn.go.com">[https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=4496325 Princeton's '96 duo take different paths], [[ESPN|ESPN.com]]</ref> That 1998 team eventually lost to [[Michigan State University]] in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Goodrich was not selected in the NBA draft.

==NBA==
After Goodrich was waived by the Bulls, he was signed days before the [[2001-02 NBA season]] with the [[New Jersey Nets]]. This relationship would not last long, as he was cut the following January to make room for free agent signings [[Anthony Johnson (basketball)|Anthony Johnson]] and [[Donny Marshall]]. After being cut by the Nets during the [[2001-02 NBA season]], he returned the next year to the [[Houston Rockets]]' training camp; however, he was cut on October 24. For his NBA career, Goodrich averaged 1.1 points (on .321 FG and .556 FT shooting), 1.2 rebounds and 1.1 fouls in 8.7 minutes per game in 21 NBA contests.<ref name="nba">[http://www.nba.com/playerfile/steve_goodrich/index.html Steve Goodrich]</ref>

==After NBA==
Goodrich played pro basketball in [[Spain]],<ref>[http://www.acb.com/jugador.php?id=A0Q Steve Goodrich] {{in lang|es}}</ref> [[Italy]], [[Germany]], [[Turkey]], [[Ukraine]]<ref name="sports.espn.go.com"/> and for the [[Baltimore Bayrunners]] in the [[International Basketball League (1999–2001)|International Basketball League]].<ref>[http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW00-01/09-0207/sports.htmll#Sports2 Rebounding from disappointment:Mason Rocca ’00’s Princeton career was plagued by injuries]</ref> In Germany, he averaged 14.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 3.1 assists in 20 games for [[StadtSport Braunschweig]] in 2001–2002. In the Italian [[Lega Basket Serie A|A1 league]], Goodrich played 24 games for [[Olimpia Milano]], with per game averages of 9.0 points and 3.1 rebounds.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060618231052/http://ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1230 Nets and Blazers Sign Ivy Players], archived from the [http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1230 original]</ref> He then spent the 2002–2003 season with [[Darüşşafaka Cooper Tires|Darussafaka Istanbul]] in Turkey. Lastly, he played for [[BC Kyiv]] in the [[Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague|Ukrainian league]], where he averaged 17.2 points and 7.3 rebounds per game for the Kyiv-based team in the 2003–2004 [[EuroChallenge|FIBA Europe League]] season.<ref>[http://www.fibaeurope.com/cid_KNce8jInH7Qj1EsyH5rjn2.compID_BYg5Rb55Jw-G5I3MZ6JB01.roundID_3670.season_2004.teamID_5323.playerID_31767.html Steven Goodrich (BC KYIV)]</ref>

==From basketball to banking==
Goodrich moved to Los Angeles and enrolled for a graduate degree at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Goodrich is now based in California, where he works for 1st Century, a bank he helped start, and now serves as Senior Vice President, Product Development & Treasury Management.<ref>[http://www.1stcenturybank.com/your_bankers.html Your Bankers]</ref> He has three children with his wife Amy, daughter of U.S. Sen. [[Tom Harkin]] of [[Iowa]].<ref name="sports.espn.go.com"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{basketballstats|bbr=g/goodrst01}}

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