Doug Overton

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Douglas M. Overton (born August 3, 1969) is an American retired professional basketball player and coach.

Playing career

Prior to his NBA career, Overton spent a season with the Illawarra Hawks of the Australian NBL. He credits his experience playing in Australia as the reason he was able to make the NBA during a podcast with aussiehoopla.com [1]

Overton was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 2nd round (40th overall) of the 1991 NBA draft. A Script error: No such module "convert". point guard from La Salle University, Overton played in 11 NBA seasons for 8 teams. He played for the Washington Bullets, Denver Nuggets, Philadelphia 76ers, Orlando Magic, New Jersey Nets, Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets and Los Angeles Clippers.

In his NBA career, Overton played in 499 games and scored a total of 2,253 points.

Coaching career

In May 2006, Overton was named assistant men's basketball coach at Saint Joseph's University.[2] He became an assistant coach for the NBA's New Jersey Nets (now Brooklyn Nets) in 2008.[3] He was also named Nets Player Development Coach prior to the 2010–11 season.[4] In August 2013, he was named head coach of the D-League's Springfield Armor.[5] Overton currently coaches Lincoln University men's basketball in Oxford, Pennsylvania.

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

NBA

Source[6]

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
Template:Nbay Washington 45 13 22.0 .471 .231 .728 2.4 3.5 .7 .1 8.1
Template:Nbay Washington 61 1 12.3 .403 .091 .827 1.1 1.5 .3 .0 3.6
Template:Nbay Washington 82* 20 20.8 .416 .424 .872 1.7 3.0 .6 .0 7.0
Template:Nbay Denver 55 0 11.0 .376 .308 .727 1.1 1.9 .2 .1 3.3
Template:Nbay Philadelphia 61 4 10.4 .426 .250 .938 1.1 1.7 .4 .0 3.6
Template:Nbay Philadelphia 23 2 12.0 .381 .000 .875 .6 1.6 .3 .0 2.7
Template:Nbay Orlando 6 0 5.5 .500 .000 1.000 .3 .5 .2 .0 3.0
Template:Nbay New Jersey 8 1 21.8 .439 .500 .857 2.1 2.0 .4 .1 8.0
Template:Nbay Philadelphia 10 0 3.7 .333 .000 – .2 .4 .1 .0 1.0
Template:Nbay Boston 48 0 9.0 .396 .357 .952 .7 1.1 .2 .0 3.2
Template:Nbay Boston 7 1 20.6 .341 .250 .636 2.1 2.7 .6 .0 5.4
Template:Nbay Charlotte 2 0 7.5 1.000 – – .0 .0 .5 .0 2.0
Template:Nbay New Jersey 12 9 26.3 .376 .313 .600 2.0 4.4 .3 .0 6.9
Template:Nbay L.A. Clippers 18 0 7.2 .318 .259 .571 .7 .7 .2 .1 2.2
Template:Nbay New Jersey 6 0 3.7 .375 – 1.000 .2 .7 .2 .0 1.3
Template:Nbay L.A. Clippers 55 11 18.4 .405 .130 .724 1.5 2.4 .5 .0 3.9
Career 499 62 14.6 .412 .319 .816 1.3 2.1 .4 .0 4.5

References

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  1. ↑ Doug Overton (Illawarra Hawks) the first player to leap to NBA from the NBL
  2. ↑ St. Joe's hires former La Salle star as assistant - Men's College Basketball - ESPN
  3. ↑ Nets Name Doug Overton Assistant Coach
  4. ↑ NETS Name Doug Overton Player Development Coach
  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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