Tim Hardaway
Tim Hardaway was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on September 1st, 1966 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 58, Tim Hardaway 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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Timothy Duane Hardaway Sr. (born September 1, 1966) is an American retired basketball player.
He was best known for his crossover dribble, which television analysts dubbed the "UTEP Two-step." He is the father of upcoming NBA player Tim Hardaway Jr., who was 6 foot (1.83 m) tall.
Early life
Hardaway was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he graduated from Carver Military Academy.
Personal life
Hardaway and his partner Yolanda live in Michigan. Tim Jr. and Nia's daughter have a son and a daughter. Tim Jr. was drafted by the New York Knicks in 2013 and now plays for the Dallas Mavericks.
College career
Hardaway, a future member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, played college basketball for the UTEP Miners under new head coach Don Haskins, who was a future member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
In 1987 and 1988, Hardaway was voted MVP of El Paso's Sun Bowl Invitational Tournament twice. In 1988 and 1989, he was on teams that advanced to the NCAA Tournaments. In 1989, he received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the best college player in the country, if he was six foot (1.83 m) tall or under. Hardaway, a football player, invented the "UTEP two-step" while playing for the Miners.
Professional career
The Golden State Warriors selected Hardaway as the 14th overall pick of the 1989 NBA draft. As Manute Bol wore Hardaway's 10, he wore number 5 on his jersey in his rookie season. Hardaway was the number after Bol left the Warriors, and he was given the number. Run TMC (the initials of the players' first names and a play on the term of the popular rap group Run-DMC) formed Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullin. Hardaway, a member of the Warriors' team, was responsible for leading Run TMC's fast break, displaying his superior passing and one-on-one skills to complement Richmond's slashing and Mullin's shooting.
Hardaway's second season and his first season in the playoffs made Golden State reach the playoffs in the 1990-91 season. The 7th seeded Warriors defeated the 2nd seeded San Antonio Spurs led by All-Star David Robinson in 4 games to advance to the 3rd seeded Los Angeles Lakers led by NBA legend Magic Johnson in the first round. In game 2, the Warriors managed to steal a game on the road, but the Lakers were unable to defeat the more experienced Lakers, losing in five games, despite Hardaway's scoring averages of 26.8 points, 12.8 assists, and 3.8 steals for the series.
As the Warriors lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Seattle SuperSonics, Hardaway averaged a game in the 1991–92 season. Hardaway averaged 10.6 assists per game in the previous season, but the Warriors did not qualify for the remainder of Hardaway's time with the club and did not return to postseason action.
Hardaway, a Warrior, appeared in the NBA All-Star Game three years in a row, but he was out of the entire 1993–94 season due to a knee injury. He earned 5,000 points and 2,500 assists in a quicker time than any other NBA player except Oscar Robertson. Hardaway, a footballer who played for the Warriors until the middle of the 1995–96 season, when he was traded to the Miami Heat with Chris Gatling in exchange for Kevin Willis and Bimbo Coles.
Hardaway started 28 games to end the season, average 17.2 points per game with 10 assists, following the mid-season trade to Miami. Miami made the playoffs but the Chicago Bulls beat them in the first round. The following season was a huge success for Miami and Hardaway as he finished fourth in voting for the NBA Most Valuable Player Award, according to the All-NBA First Team as Miami claimed a franchise record 61 wins.
Hardaway began playing in 81 games, scoring 20.3 points and 8.6 assists, while finishing fourth in the league with 203 three-point baskets. In 1997, he appeared in the NBA All-Star Game, scoring 10 points in 14 minutes. Hardaway averaged 26 points per game in the first round of 5 games and then defeated the New York Knicks in 7 games in the semifinals, in which Hardaway scored 38 points in the 7th game. In five games, Miami will face the defending champion Chicago Bulls.
Hardaway averaged 18.9 points and 8.3 assists per game in the 1997–98 NBA All-Star Game, and was selected to play in the 1998 NBA All-Star Game. The Heat won 55 games and won the Atlantic Division, but the Knicks lost in 5 games in the first round of the playoffs to the Knicks. Despite having home court advantage and the Knicks being the eighth seed in the playoffs, the Lockout reduced 1998-99 season to 17.4 points per game with 7.3 assists, and Miami won the Atlantic Division once more in the first round of the playoffs, but he could not beat the Knicks again.
In the 1999–2000 season, Hardaway's output decreased, with Alonzo Mourning and Jamal Mashburn shouldering more of the offensive burden. In a game, Hardaway averaged 13.4 points with 7.4 assists, but he set a personal record of.367 percent from outside the three-point arc. Hardaway was further restricted in the playoffs after being limited to 52 games, when Miami defeated the Detroit Pistons, but then fell to New York in 7 games.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Hardaway and Mourning earned a gold medal representing the United States men's basketball team. Mourning will be diagnosed with a rare kidney disease in the 2000-2001 season and will be out for a significant portion of the season. As Miami won 50 games and set the East's third best record, only to be swept by the Charlotte Hornets in the first round, Hardaway pushed his offensive output to 14.9 points in a game with 6.3 assists.
Hardaway was traded to the Dallas Mavericks on August 22, 2001 for a second-round draft pick following the 2000–01 season and ageing. He was one of Miami's all-time leaders in assists at one point. Hardaway, who was mostly used off the bench, was mainly used off the bench, with only two games out of 54 and averaging almost ten points per game. He was traded to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for point guard Nick Van Exel, who was in the middle of the season.
He started all 14 games with the Nuggets before retiring and becoming a basketball analyst for ESPN.
Hardaway, who was playing for the Nuggets, was banned for two games and fined $10,000 by the league if he threw a television monitor into the court.
Hardaway signed a season-high 14 points and seven assists against the Chicago Bulls on March 27, 2003. Hardaway played in five NBA All-Star Games by the end of his career.
Coaching career
Hardaway was named as an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons on August 7, 2014.
National team career
Hardaway had intended to play for "Dream Team II" in the 1994 FIBA World Championship, but was forced to return after suffering a torn knee ligament injury.
He was also chosen (as one of the last two players selected) for the 1998 FIBA World Championship team. Due to the NBA lockout, the team was later replaced with CBA and college players.
He appeared in the Sydney Olympics in 2000, scoring 5.5 points/Game and shooting.385 (15-39) from the field.
In 2006, Hardaway, a player/head coach of the Florida Pit Bulls of the ABA, was a player/head coach for the Florida Pit Bulls.
In September 2009, he competed for the NBA Generations team in the 2009 NBA Asia Challenge, a series of exhibitions against Korean Basketball Association and Philippine Basketball Association players.