Travis Best
Travis Best was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States on July 12th, 1972 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 51, Travis Best 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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Travis Best (born July 12, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player, who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and in Europe.
Personal life
Travis also has a cameo in 1998 film He Got Game as ”Sip”
Travis lives in the Springfield metropolitan area with his girlfriend "Michelle Kathleen" Brodeur.
High school career
Best attended Springfield Central High School, serving on teams that set a 69–4 record in his three seasons, winning the Lahovich Award as the top player in Western Massachusetts from 1989–91. He was named a second-team Parade All-American following his junior season. Best scored 81 points in a single game during his senior season. Best led his 25-0 team to the 1991 Division I state championship and a No. 1 finisher, with then-sophomore teammate Edgar Padilla, a future UMass standout. In the final USA Today Top 25, there are 15 places in the world Today Top 25. Best was chosen to play in both McDonald's All-American Game and McDonald's Capital Classic, earning first-team Parade All-American awards and being the sole guard selected for USA Today's All-USA first team after receiving Gatorade's Massachusetts and New England Player of the Year awards. Best chose Georgia Tech after considering both UConn and the University of Virginia.
Collegiate career
Best served at Georgia Tech for four years alongside fellow McDonald's All-American James Forrest. The Yellow Jackets are coached by Paul Stanley in 1993, their first since 1990. Best was named to the All-ACC third team as a sophomore and a senior, receiving second-team recognition as a sophomore and a senior. As a senior, the best led the ACC in assist-to-turnover ratio and free-throw percentage, while winning ACC Player of the Week awards for the first five times.
At the end of his collegiate career, he was ranked in the top ten in points, assists, minutes, 3-point field goals, and robbery. He was one of only three ACC players to reach 2,000 points with 600 assists (UNC's Phil Ford and Maryland's Greivis Vasquez were the other two). He received honorable-mention All-America distinctions from The Associated Press, and he was a nominee for the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, a national honor given to the country's best player under the age of 6 feet (1.8 meters).
Professional career
In the 1995 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers, the best was drafted 23rd. He played for the Chicago Bulls, the Miami Heat, the Dallas Mavericks, and the New Jersey Nets, averaging 7.6 points and 3.5 assists per game.
Best was a key reserve at point guard on the 1999-2000 Indiana team, where he was a crucial back-up plan in the 2000 NBA Finals. In the decisive fifth game against the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round of the playoffs, Best made the game-winning 3-pointer. He requested a trade during the 2001-2002 season and the Chicago Bulls gave him one. Ron Artest, Brad Miller, Ron Mercer, and Kevin Ollie were traded to the Pacers for Best, Jalen Rose and Norman Richardson, the Bulls' future second-round pick.
Best appeared in the 1998 Spike Lee film He Got Game, which also stars NBA players Ray Allen, Walter McCarty, John Wallace, and Rick Fox.