Dennis Nutt

Dennis Nutt
Position Guard
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight 170 lb (77 kg)
League CBA
NBA
ACB
Euroleague
Born March 25, 1963 (1963-03-25) (age 48)
Little Rock, Arkansas
Nationality American
Career history LaCrosse Catbirds
Sioux Falls Skyforce
Dallas Mavericks
Real Madrid

Dennis Clay Nutt (born March 25, 1963, in Little Rock, Arkansas) is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the head basketball coach at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Career

Nutt was a 6'2" (188 cm) and 170 lb (77 kg) guard and played collegiately at Texas Christian University from 1981–85. He is now the head basketball coach at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He has worked as a scout for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats.[1][2] Previously, Nutt was an assistant coach for Coastal Carolina University men's basketball team,[3] and was the head coach at Texas State University for six seasons before resigning in 2006.[4]

Nutt played in the CBA with the LaCrosse Catbirds and the Sioux Falls Skyforce,[3] and 25 games with the NBA's Dallas Mavericks in the 1986–87 National Basketball Association season. Following this, he played for Real Madrid in Spain for one year[5] for the season 1989–90.[6]

Dennis Nutt is the brother of Dickey Nutt, head men's basketball coach at Southeast Missouri State University, under whom he served as an assistant for five years until April 2000.[5] They are also the brothers of Houston Nutt, who is the current head football coach for the University of Mississippi[7] and Danny Nutt, a former running backs coach for the Arkansas Razorbacks football team.[8]

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