Phil Ford
Phil Ford was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States on February 9th, 1956 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 68, Phil Ford biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Phil Jackson Ford Jr. (born February 9, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He graduated from Rocky Mount Senior High School in 1974 and spent an All-American college career with the North Carolina Tar Heels.
College career
In his first collegiate basketball game, Ford was the first freshman under head basketball coach Dean Smith. He averaged 16.4 points and 5.2 assists per game during the season, the two of which were UNC freshman records that would not be matched for more than 20 years. Ford led UNC to a second-place finish in the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season standings, and then to a historic victory over NC State in the 1975 ACC tournament. This win snapped N.C. State's two-year winning streak as ACC champions for the second time. Ford averaged 26 points in the tournament and was named tournament MVP, marking the first freshman to receive the award in ACC history.
Ford averaged 18.6 points and 7.0 assists per game in his sophomore season. His assists average set a UNC single-season record before Ed Cota averaged 7.4 assists in the 1997-98 season. During the ACC regular season, Ford led UNC to a first-place finish and was a first team All-ACC pick, which he will also receive in his junior and senior seasons. He was also a consensus second team All-American.
Ford averaged 18.7 points and 6.6 assists per game in his junior season, while the Tar Heels won first place in the ACC regular season. Ford led UNC to their second conference championship in 1976 by scoring 26 points in the championship match against Virginia. Despite hyperextending his shooting elbow in the regional semifinal game against Notre Dame, Ford helped the Tar Heels advance to the Final Four and all the way to the NCAA Championship Game. At the end of the season, Ford was named a consensus first team All-American.
Ford averaged 20.8 points and 5.7 assists per game in his last home game, clinching another ACC first-place finish for the Tar Heels. Ford presented himself as the National Player of the Year after winning the USBWA, NABC, and Sporting News Player of the Year awards, as well as the John R. Wooden Award at the end of the season, and was named National Player of the Year.
NBA career
In the first round of the NBA draft, Ford was the second overall pick. Ford was named NBA Rookie of the Year with the Kansas City Kings in 1979 while being coached by Cotton Fitzsimmons and forming a dynamic backcourt tandem with Otis Birdsong, a flurry of events throughout the league. Ford's career best 22 assists came during the Milwaukee Bucks' 133-117 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, on February 21, 1979, while also scoring 26 points, grabbing 5 rebounds, and recording 5 steals. Ford scored a career high 38 points in a 113-107 victory over the Houston Rockets on January 23, 1981. Ford was forced to have surgery for a season-ending eye injury, which was a reason why the Kings made it to the Western Conference Finals, despite having a regular season record of 40-42. Ford's return to his previous level of play during the season was unsuccessful, and he was traded to the Bucks, then traded to the Bucks, before being released and playing out his career on the Rockets.
Ford averaged 5,594 points in 482 NBA games, an 11.6 average, and had 3,083 assists, an average of 6.4 per game. In 1985, he was banned from the NBA.
National team career
Ford served as the starting point guard for the 1976 US Olympic team, coached by Dean Smith, who captured the gold medal in his sophomore season. Ford has received 54 assists in six Olympic games for a 9.0 percent average.
Coaching career
In 1988, he returned to North Carolina as an assistant coach and helped the Tar Heels win the national championship for the first time. Ford became Bill Guthridge's top assistant after Smith's retirement in 1997. Following the UNC's 1999-2000 season, in which they reached the Final Four, Ford and the remainder of Guthridge's staff were reassigned as head coach with his own teaching staff.
Ford now works with the Educational Foundation, the University of North Carolina athletic department's fund-raising arm. He also served as a color commentator on UNC basketball broadcasts for a brief period.
Larry Brown, a Detroit Pistons assistant coach, was a Detroit Brown (2004-2005). Ford continued in the same position by Charlotte Bobcats' new head coach Larry Brown from June 2008 to 2010. Isiah Thomas for the New York Knicks was an assistant coach from 2005-2007.