Doug Collins
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Paul Douglas Collins (born July 28, 1951) is an American basketball executive, former player, coach and television analyst.
He was the first overall pick of the 1973 NBA draft and a four-time NBA All-Star.
He has been an NBA coach, coaching the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers.
Collins also served as an analyst for various NBA-related broadcast shows.
He is a recipient of the Curt Gowdy Media Award.
Early life
Collins was born in Christopher, Illinois. He grew up in Benton, Illinois, where his next-door neighbor was future film star John Malkovich. Collins enjoyed a successful high school basketball career at Benton Consolidated High School under renowned coach Rich Herrin
Personal life
Collins and his wife Kathy have two children. They reside in the Delaware Valley. Their son Chris, a former Duke University basketball player, is the head basketball coach at Northwestern University and their daughter Kelly, who played basketball at Lehigh University, is a school teacher in Pennsylvania.
College career
Collins continued to play for Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, where he was coached by Will Robinson, the first black head coach in NCAA Division I, from 1970.
Professional career
Collins was drafted first overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1973 NBA draft. He spent eight seasons for Philadelphia and was an NBA All-Star four times. Julius Erving led the Sixers to the NBA Finals in 1976–77, where they lost to the Portland Trail Blazers.
Collins' career in 1981 would come to an end due to a series of foot and left knee injuries starting in 1979. In all, he appeared in 415 NBA games, scoring 7,427 points (17.9 per game).
Coaching career
Collins went back to teaching after his retirement. He joined Bob Weinhauer's staff at Penn as an assistant coach and later moved to Arizona State for the same position.
Collins was named head coach of the Chicago Bulls in May 1986; the team was dominated by Michael Jordan, who was entering his third season. Despite Jordan, the Bulls were still reeling from a 30–52 season and firing their former two coaches after one season each.
Collins made the Bulls turn around their fortunes in his first two seasons, leading Chicago to a 50-32 record in his second season. In his third year as coach, he took Chicago to their first Eastern Conference Finals Appearance in 15 years, but the Pistons' Central Division foe the "Bad Boys" were unable to beat them in the Central Division. Collins was fired in 1989 despite the Bulls' triumph and his renown in Chicago.
In 1995, Collins was named head coach of the Detroit Pistons. As the Pistons had a second-year player who drew comparisons to Michael Jordan, Grant Hill, his arrival in Detroit was similar to his in Chicago. In his first season as coach Mike McGuire, he was able to raise the team's previous season's record by 18 games and lead them back to the playoffs, but the Orlando Magic will sweep them away.
Hill was voted the Eastern Conference All-Star team's coach after a quick start in his second season. Collins' year-long effort came on April 13, when the Pistons stunned the defending champion Bulls to snap Detroit's 19-game losing streak against Chicago. (Incidentally Collins stopped a Chicago losing streak against the Pistons in the 1980s.) In the best-of-five series, the Pistons went 54–28 and lost in the first round of playoffs to the Atlanta Hawks.
He served as the Pistons' head coach until Alvin Gentry was fired and replaced by him on February 2, 1998. Collins later became a television presenter, spent time on various networks, including NBC on the NBA on NBC and TNT on TNT, as well as TNT on the NBA.
Collins spent three years as a broadcaster before being hired to coach the Washington Wizards for the 2001–02 NBA season. Collins was reunited in Washington with Michael Jordan and Charles Oakley. Collins improved the team's previous season by 18 games in his first season with his new squad. Despite his.451 winning percentage through two seasons was higher than the Wizards'.308 record for the previous two seasons (and then a.305 record the following season), Collins was fired at the end of the 2002–03 season.
Collins was hired as the Philadelphia 76ers' head coach on May 21, 2010. Although the 76ers started off poorly with a record of 3-13, the team's season continued with great success, winning the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference for the playoffs. The team's win total increased by 14 games over the previous season under Collins. In the first round, they lost to the eventual Eastern Conference champions Miami Heat, but they were able to prevent a sweep that had been predicted. Collins came in second place in the Coach of the Year polls this season.
Collins led the Sixers to an improved record in the 2011–2012 season, but Philadelphia was only able to claim the eighth seed in the playoffs. Collins led the Sixers to their first playoff series victory since 2003 over the top seeded Chicago Bulls. It was the fifth time in NBA history that an eighth seed defeated a first seed in a playoff series. They went from seven games against the Boston Celtics to seven, but lost.
Collins resigned as a 76ers coach on April 18, 2013, citing the desire to spend more time with his five grandchildren. He was confirmed that he would continue serving as an advisor and would remain with the team.
National team career
In Munich, West Germany, Collins represented the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Many basketball games are remembered by Americans as a result of the tense gold medal basketball game between the US and the Soviet Union, in which Collins played a significant role.
Broadcasting career
Collins began working for CBS in the mid-1980s, mainly playoff games. During the 1985–86 season, he served as the lead color analyst for the local broadcasts of the 76ers' games. He has worked with CBS, NBC, TNT, TBS, ABC, and ABC/ESPN among his various coaching stints. He called games for the New York Knicks during the 2003–04 season on MSG Network as a part-time employee, partnered with Marv Albert.
Collins returned to TNT games after being mocked by the Wizards. In addition,, he served as an analyst for NBC Sports' TV coverage of basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. During the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he was also a basketball analyst for NBC.
During this period, Collins' name was mentioned several times in relation to head coaching vacancies. In 2005, he was a candidate for the Milwaukee Bucks but was rejected because of Terry Stotts. Collins was recruited by the company in 2008 to serve as their GM and coach, but the team turned them down once more. Collins was fired from the team in May 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when he was fired from the team. Collins withdrew his name when he and owner Jerry Reinsdorf "agreed it wasn't the right idea to continue this way" in the midst of their close personal friendship.
Executive career
Collins had joined the Chicago Bulls as senior advisor of basketball operations on September 19, 2017.