Kiki Vandeweghe
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Ernest Maurice "Kiki" VanDeWeghe III (born August 1, 1958) is an American basketball executive.
He serves as the Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
VanDeWeghe is a retired professional basketball player and was formerly the general manager of the Denver Nuggets and the New Jersey Nets, and a head coach of the Nets. VanDeWeghe was born in Wiesbaden, West Germany, the son of former NBA player Ernie Vandeweghe and Colleen Kay Hutchins, the winner of the 1952 Miss America pageant.
He is also the nephew of another NBA player, four-time All-Star Mel Hutchins.
He has a niece, Coco Vandeweghe, who is a professional tennis player.
VanDeWeghe and his wife Peggy have one son, Ernest Maurice VanDeWeghe IV, born in 2002. As a player, VanDeWeghe was regarded as an excellent scorer and outside shooter, averaging 20 points for seven consecutive seasons.
He was particularly known for his use of the stepback, a move he was so proficient at that it was often referred to as the "Kiki Move" toward the end of his career.
VanDeWeghe's teams qualified for the NBA playoffs in 12 of his 13 seasons in the league, although none of his teams ever won the NBA championship. For the bulk of his career, VanDeWeghe spelled his surname "Vandeweghe" (with only the V capitalized), a spelling used by his parents before their deaths, and still used by his niece who has a prominent tennis career.
In 2013, he announced he was changing the spelling of his name to "VanDeWeghe", in honor of his recently departed paternal grandfather and namesake.
Personal life
VanDeWeghe is the nephew of NBA player and four-time All-Star Mel Hutchins. He has a niece, Coco Vandeweghe, who is a professional tennis player. VanDeWeghe and his wife Peggy have one son, Ernest Maurice VanDeWeghe IV, born in 2002.
College career
VanDeWeghe spent four seasons at the University of California, Los Angeles, culminating in a senior season in which Bruins hopes were lower than those of previous seasons. The team was coming off a season in which they lost three starters, David Greenwood, Roy Hamilton, and Brad Holland as first-round draft picks. Larry Brown, the Bruins' current head coach who was coaching a collegiate team for the first time, was also on staff. Rod Foster, Michael Holton, and Darren Daye, along with sophomore Mike Sanders, were among those attracting this talent. The lone seniors, VanDeWeghe and James Wilkes, were the only seniors. At the beginning, the team was sluggish at the start, but the team gathered towards the end and finished the regular season 17-9. The Bruins, nicknamed "Kiki and the Kids," were the 48th and final team to qualify in the 1979-80 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, the fourth in the United States. The Bruins made it all the way to the final, beating #1 DePaul and Mark Aguirre on the way, with VanDeWeghe leading the way. The Bruins lost to the University of Louisville, led by Darrell Griffith, in the final.
Playing career
VanDeWeghe was drafted 11th overall in the 1980 NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks but refused to play for Dallas and demanded a trade (for the remainder of his career, he was exposed to boos whenever he played in Dallas). He got his wish and was traded to the Nuggets on December 3 of the same year. VanDeWeghe was twice selected to the NBA Western Conference All-Star team in 1983 and 1984 as a member of the Nuggets. In 1983, he was second in scoring with averaging 26.7 points, and 1983 with a career-high 29.4 points.
VanDeWeghe scored 50 or more points in two NBA record-setting games during the 1983–84 Nuggets season. The former game, which featured a career-high 51 points, is also the highest combined scoring game in NBA history, with the Detroit Pistons losing 186-184 triple-overtime. VanDeWeghe scored 50 points in another high-scoring game on January 11, 1984, the highest combined scoring NBA regulation game of all time).
VanDeWeghe was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers in 1984 in exchange for Calvin Natt, Wayne Cooper, Fat Lever, and two draft picks. VanDeWeghe had many fruitful seasons in Portland, where he averaged nearly 25 points per game. He and Clyde Drexler joined up to form a dynamic scoring pairing. VanDeWeghe averaged 28 points per game in 1986, the Nuggets, in a first round loss to his former team, the Nuggets. In a 127-122 loss to the Seattle SuperSonics on March 5, 1987, VanDeWeghe scored 48 points, his highest single game total as a Trail Blazer. VanDeWeghe suffered a back injury and lost his starting job to Jerome Kersey during the 1987–88 season. He was traded to the New York Knicks (where his dad played his entire career) with whom he played for many years. He spent half of a season with the Los Angeles Clippers before retiring from the sport after the 1992–93 season.
Executive career
VanDeWeghe played for the Dallas Mavericks in the beginning, where he was instrumental in the creation of Dirk Nowitzki. VanDeWeghe served as an assistant head coach during his time in Dallas. VanDeWeghe was appointed to the Nuggets' general manager role on August 9, 2001, and oversaw the Nuggets' return to the NBA playoffs. VanDeWeghe made significant changes in 2003, including the recruitment of George Karl as head coach in 2005, and the drafting of Carmelo Anthony in 2003, the move for Marcus Camby in 2002. However, several other VanDeWeghe's initiatives, such as the preparation of draft bust Nikoloz Tskitishvili in 2002 and the New Jersey Nets' acquisition of Kenyon Martin at the end of the 2003–04 season, fell short of the desired returns. The Nuggets revealed that VanDeWeghe's deal will not be renewed shortly after the Clippers' first-round playoff elimination in the 2006 playoffs.
He spent 2006-2007 as an NBA analyst for ESPN, as well as others, appearing on the channel's SportsCenter and NBA Shootaround programs. VanDeWeghe would join the team as a special assistant to team president and general manager Rod Thorn on December 31, 2007. Ed Stefanski, who left the Nets to join the Philadelphia 76ers earlier this month, was fired by VanDeWeghe. Billy King was recalled as the 76ers' general manager by Stefanski.
VanDeWeghe agreed to serve as interim head coach of the Nets while also serving as the team's general manager on December 1, 2009 (although assistant coach Tom Barrise served as head coach for the team's December 2 game). After the Nets opened the 2009-10 season with 16 consecutive losses, VanDeWeghe took over Lawrence Frank as head coach. VanDeWeghe recruited Del Harris as an assistant, but he resigned midway through the season on February 2, 2010. Harris resigned after learning that a potential side agreement with VanDeWeghe to become head coach had failed.
After the Nets' ownership changed hands, Mikhail Prokhorov announced that VanDeWeghe would not return the following season.
VanDeWeghe joined the NBA executive team in 2013 and spent eight years as the executive vice president of basketball operations, before moving to an advisory role for NBA commissioner Adam Silver and president of league operations Byron Spruell.