Wesley Person

Men’s Basketball
Competitor for United States
FIBA U21 World Championship
Gold	1993 Valladolid	National team
FIBA U19 World Championship
Gold	1991 Edmonton	National team

Wesley Lavon Person (born March 28, 1971 in Brantley, Alabama) is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the NBA. After his playing career he became an assistant women's basketball coach and the head men's basketball coach at Enterprise-Ozark Community College, located in Enterprise, Alabama.^[1] He was fired from the latter position in 2010.^[2]

Selected by the Phoenix Suns 23rd overall in the 1994 NBA Draft out of Auburn University, he played three seasons for the Suns, five for the Cleveland Cavaliers, 82 games over two seasons for the Memphis Grizzlies, 33 games for the Portland Trail Blazers, nine games for the Atlanta Hawks, sixteen games for the Miami Heat and 25 for the Denver Nuggets.

Person's best season was with the Cavs in 1997-98, when he averaged 14.7 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.57 steals per game. Throughout his career, he's been known for his three-point shooting ability and also in 1997-98, led the league in three-pointers made and attempted. He has a career average three-point accuracy of 41.8 percent.

Person is the younger brother of former NBA player Chuck Person,^[1] and his son Wesley, Jr. is a top high-school player in Alabama for Brantley High School.^[3]

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v t e 1994 NBA Draft

First round	Glenn Robinson Jason Kidd Grant Hill Donyell Marshall Juwan Howard Sharone Wright Lamond Murray Brian Grant Eric Montross Eddie Jones Carlos Rogers Khalid Reeves Jalen Rose Yinka Dare Eric Piatkowski Clifford Rozier Aaron McKie Eric Mobley Tony Dumas B. J. Tyler Dickey Simpkins Bill Curley Wesley Person Monty Williams Greg Minor Charlie Ward Brooks Thompson

Second round	Deon Thomas Antonio Lang Howard Eisley Rodney Dent Jim McIlvaine Derrick Alston Gaylon Nickerson Michael Smith Andrei Fetisov Dontonio Wingfield Darrin Hancock Anthony Miller Jeff Webster William Njoku Gary Collier Shawnelle Scott Damon Bailey Dwayne Morton Voshon Lenard Jamie Watson Jevon Crudup Kris Bruton Charles Claxton Lawrence Funderburke Anthony Goldwire Albert Burditt Željko Rebrača

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Name	Person, Wesley
Alternative names
Short description	American basketball player
Date of birth	March 28, 1971
Place of birth	Brantley, Alabama
Date of death
Place of death

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