Robert Pack (basketball)

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Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Robert John Pack Jr. (born February 3, 1969) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He last coached the Rwandan club REG of the Basketball Africa League A Script error: No such module "convert".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". point guard, he played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

High school and college career

Pack attended Alfred Lawless High School in New Orleans.[1] He was a high school teammate of future NBA player Eldridge Recasner[1] and graduated from Lawless in 1987. He then attended Tyler Junior College for two years, transferred to the University of Southern California in 1989, and graduated with a degree in sociology in 1991.[2] He averaged 13.4 points per game and 5.3 assists in his two seasons at USC.

Professional career

Early career

Pack was not drafted by an NBA team, rather he began his career by being signed as a free agent by the Portland Trail Blazers on September 16, 1991. He made the team by beating out veteran Walter Davis and played 72 games for the Blazers as a rookie, averaging 4.6 points/game in 12.4 MPG as he was entrenched behind veterans Terry Porter and Danny Ainge. The Blazers went to the NBA Finals that year, before losing the series, 4–2, to the Chicago Bulls. During the 1992 off-season, after the Blazers signed free agent point guard Rod Strickland, Pack was traded to the Nuggets for a 1993 second-round draft pick.

Mid-career

Pack spent three seasons with the Nuggets from 1992–93 until 1994–95, with his minutes and games started increasing each season. On March 18, 1993, Pack set a then-career-high with 27 points while coming off the bench in a 105–101 loss to the Boston Celtics.[3] He was part of a young Nuggets team starring Dikembe Mutombo, LaPhonso Ellis and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf that became the first eighth-seeded team in NBA history to defeat the first-seeded team as the Nuggets defeated the Seattle SuperSonics in the first round of the 1994 Western Conference Playoffs. Pack was then traded to the Washington Bullets for Doug Overton and Don MacLean on October 30, 1995. Injuries slowed Pack during the prime years of his career, as he never played a full 82-game season. In 31 games for the Bullets, Pack averaged 18.1 ppg, 7.8 apg, 4.3 rpg and 2.00 spg in what was his best season statistically.[4] Prior to the 1996–97 season he was signed by the New Jersey Nets before being traded mid-season to the Dallas Mavericks along with Shawn Bradley, Ed O'Bannon and Khalid Reeves for Sam Cassell, Chris Gatling, Jim Jackson, George McCloud and Eric Montross. Pack remained with the Mavericks through the end of the 1999–00 season, never playing more than the 54 games he played in 1996–97 as injuries slowed his career.

Late career

Pack returned to the Nuggets for the 2000–01 season after being traded by the Mavericks via the Boston Celtics. He played 74 games that season, starting 11 of them as a replacement for starting point guard Nick Van Exel. The Minnesota Timberwolves signed him in the off-season and he played 16 games for them in 2001–02. His final two seasons in the NBA were as a veteran backup point guard off the bench for the New Orleans Hornets (2002–03) and the New Jersey Nets (2003–04). On October 2, 2005, Pack signed a contract with the Toronto Raptors for a tryout with the team. His stint with the Raptors was short-lived as he was cut by the team on October 22.

He finished his NBA career and from 2004 to 2005 he played in Žalgiris Kaunas in Lithuania.

Coaching career

In August 2009, Pack joined the New Orleans Hornets as an assistant coach.[5] He became an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers the next season.[6] On July 31, 2013, he became an assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder.[7]

On June 22, 2015, he returned to the now New Orleans Pelicans as an assistant coach.[8]

On October 10, 2018, Pack joined the Washington Wizards as assistant coach.[9]

On February 18, 2022, Pack was announced as the new head coach of the Rwandan club REG ahead of the Basketball Africa League (BAL).[10]

Other

Pack was knownScript error: No such module "Unsubst". as one of the game's better dunkers during the first half of the 1990s and one of the more spectacular in-game dunkers of all-time among smaller players, due largely to his outstanding vertical leap and lateral quickness. He finished second in the 1994 NBA Slam Dunk Contest during the NBA All-Star Weekend in Minneapolis, Minnesota, behind Isaiah Rider.

He achieved two triple-doubles in his career.[11]

Philanthropy

In November 2016, Pack and Percy "Master P" Miller formed Team H.O.P.E. NOLA, an acronym for “Helping Our Players Excel.” Its players were twenty at-risk males between the ages of 12–15 and chosen from New Orleans-area schools.[12][13]

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[14]

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
Template:Nbay Portland 72 0 12.4 .423 .000 .803 1.3 1.9 .6 .1 4.6
Template:Nbay Denver 77 1 20.5 .470 .125 .768 2.1 4.4 1.1 .1 10.5
Template:Nbay Denver 66 4 20.9 .443 .207 .758 1.9 5.4 1.2 .1 9.6
Template:Nbay Denver 42 32 27.2 .430 .417 .783 2.7 6.9 1.5 .1 12.1
Template:Nbay Washington 31 31 35.0 .428 .265 .846 4.3 7.8 2.0 .0 18.1
Template:Nbay New Jersey 34 31 34.9 .407 .297 .788 2.5 9.6 1.7 .1 15.9
Dallas 20 11 29.9 .361 .237 .849 3.0 6.4 1.8 .2 11.5
Template:Nbay Dallas 12 10 24.3 .337 .500 .694 2.8 3.5 1.7 .1 7.8
Template:Nbay Dallas 25 0 18.7 .431 .000 .818 1.4 3.2 .8 .0 8.9
Template:Nbay Dallas 29 22 22.9 .417 .364 .808 1.4 5.8 1.1 .1 8.9
Template:Nbay Denver 74 11 17.0 .425 .387 .766 1.9 4.0 .9 .0 6.5
Template:Nbay Minnesota 16 0 15.8 .368 .250 .733 1.4 3.1 .8 .0 3.9
Template:Nbay New Orleans 28 4 15.7 .403 .000 .745 1.8 2.9 .9 .0 5.2
Template:Nbay New Jersey 26 0 8.5 .423 .000 .833 .7 1.0 .5 .0 1.9
Career 552 157 20.8 .425 .292 .787 2.0 4.6 1.1 .1 8.9

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1992 Portland 14 0 3.7 .222 – .750 .4 .5 .4 .1 .8
1994 Denver 12 0 27.7 .407 .300 .709 2.3 4.3 1.5 .5 11.8
2002 Minnesota 3 0 3.3 .200 .000 1.000 .0 .0 .0 .0 1.0
2003 New Orleans 4 0 10.5 .462 – 1.000 .3 1.0 .0 .0 3.8
Career 33 0 13.2 .383 .286 .730 1.1 1.9 .7 .2 5.2

Head coaching record

BAL

Template:NBA coach statistics legend Template:NBA coach statistics start |- | style="text-align:left;"|REG | style="text-align:left;"|2022 |5||4||1||Template:Winning percentage|| style="text-align:left;"|1st in Sahara Conference||1||0||1||Template:Winning percentage | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Quarterfinals |- class="sortbottom" |}

See also

References

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