Danny Manning

Danny Manning

Manning in 2014
Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Position Head coach
Personal information
Born (1966-05-17) May 17, 1966
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Listed weight 230 lb (104 kg)
Career information
High school Page (Greensboro, North Carolina)
Lawrence (Lawrence, Kansas)
College Kansas (1984–1988)
NBA draft 1988 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall
Selected by the Los Angeles Clippers
Playing career 1988–2003
Position Power forward
Number 5, 6, 15, 25
Coaching career 2003–present
Career history
As player:
1988–1994 Los Angeles Clippers
1994 Atlanta Hawks
1994–1999 Phoenix Suns
1999–2000 Milwaukee Bucks
2000–2001 Utah Jazz
2001–2002 Dallas Mavericks
2003 Detroit Pistons
As coach:
2003–2006 Kansas (team manager)
2006–2012 Kansas (assistant)
2012–2014 Tulsa
2014–present Wake Forest
Career highlights and awards

As player:

As head coach

As assistant coach:

Career NBA statistics
Points 12,367 (14.0 ppg)
Assists 2,063 (2.3 apg)
Steals 1,000 (1.1 spg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
College Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 2008
Medals
Men's basketball
Competitor for  United States
Pan American Games
1987 Indianapolis National team
Olympic Games
1988 Seoul National team

Daniel Ricardo "Danny" Manning (born May 17, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and retired National Basketball Association player. He is the current men's head coach at Wake Forest.[1] After retiring from professional basketball Manning became an assistant coach at his alma mater, the University of Kansas. He won the National Championship with the Jayhawks in 1988 as a player, and again on the coaching staff in 2008.

Early life

Manning is the son of former longtime NBA and ABA player and professional and college coach, the late Ed Manning. As a junior at Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina, Danny averaged 18.8 points and nine rebounds per game, leading the Pirates to a 26-0 record and the state title.[2]

When Ed Manning became an assistant coach at the University of Kansas prior to Danny's senior year, the family moved to Lawrence, Kansas and Danny attended Lawrence High School, where as a senior he was named Kansas Player of the Year.[3] While in Lawrence High, Manning played alongside future United States federal judge Sri Srinivasan.[4]

College career

Commonly considered the greatest player in University of Kansas history, he led the Jayhawks to the 1988 NCAA title as a senior. Manning left KU as its all-time leading scorer and rebounder. He was also the all-time leading scorer in Big Eight Conference history with 2,951 career points. He won the Wooden, Naismith, and Eastman Awards as the college player of the year in 1988. In Kansas's 83-79 victory over Oklahoma in the 1988 NCAA Final, Manning recorded 31 points, 18 rebounds, 5 steals and 2 blocked shots. For his seemingly single-handed performance in propelling the underdog Jayhawks to the title, as well as KU's unremarkable record going into the NCAA tournament (21-11, most losses of any NCAA champion), the 1988 Kansas team was nicknamed "Danny and the Miracles" and Manning was honored as Most Outstanding Player in the tournament. A two-time All-American while at KU, Manning was later named the Big Eight Player of the Decade.

Manning was selected to the last all-amateur USA national basketball team in 1988, which competed at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The team won the bronze medal, but was viewed as a disappointment, as they had been heavy favorites to win the gold until their loss to the Soviet Union in a semi-final game. Manning failed to score even a single point in that game, and afterward called it "one of the biggest disappointments of my life."[5]

Professional career

Los Angeles Clippers

Manning was drafted with the first overall pick by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1988 NBA draft, and spent 15 seasons in the league. During his NBA career Manning scored 12,367 points and averaged 14.0 points per game. He played only 26 games as a rookie after a torn anterior cruciate ligament required him to undergo arthroscopic knee surgery, but he returned for the 1989-1990 season. His most productive NBA season was 1992-1993, when he averaged 22.8 points a game for the Clippers, and was selected to play in the All-Star Game. He also was selected as an All-Star the following season.

Continuing knee problems forced Manning to become a part-time player in 1996 after he had undergone two more surgeries.

Phoenix Suns

He won the 1997-1998 Sixth Man Award, while playing for the Phoenix Suns, as the best reserve player in the NBA, averaging 13.5 points while playing about 26 minutes a game. Manning holds the distinction of being the first NBA player to have returned to play after reconstructive surgeries on both knees (a feat since duplicated by Kenyon Martin, Amar'e Stoudemire, and Greg Oden).

Career Comes to a Close

Manning was traded to the Orlando Magic along with Pat Garrity and a conditional first-round draft pick for Anfernee Hardaway in 1999, but played for different teams during each of his final four seasons in the league.

College coaching career

Assistant at Kansas

He announced his retirement from professional basketball in 2003 and served for four years at the University of Kansas as director of student-athlete development and team manager under KU basketball coach Bill Self. Manning was promoted to assistant coach at the end of the 2006-07 season as a replacement for Tim Jankovich who left the Kansas staff to take the position of head coach at Illinois State University. Manning became a key component of the Jayhawks coaching staff, filling vital roles in both recruiting and his work training the team's big men. In his role as KU assistant coach, Manning worked with the Jayhawk big men and earned a reputation as one of the best coaches of big men in the country. He coached 12 NBA draft picks, including eight first round selections. Kansas bigs among those NBA draft picks during his tenure included Wayne Simien, Julian Wright, Darrell Arthur, Darnell Jackson, Sasha Kaun, Cole Aldrich, twins Marcus Morris and Markieff Morris, Thomas Robinson and Jeff Withey. Manning recruited two McDonald's High School All-Americans, including 2010 NBA first-round draft pick and Oklahoman Xavier Henry. He also coached two Academic All-Americans - Cole Aldrich and Tyrel Reed. Aldrich was selected as the 2010 Academic All-America of the Year for men's basketball. He spent a total of nine years on the staff at Kansas.[6]

Tulsa

On April 4, 2012, Manning was officially announced as Tulsa's head coach.[1][7] In his first year, the Golden Hurricane posted a 17-16 overall record and an 8-8 mark in Conference USA play, finishing fifth in the league regular season. With the fifth-least-experience team in the nation in 2012-13 and battling injuries all season, TU advanced to the semifinals of the Conference USA Championship and played in the CBI postseason tournament. Two Hurricane players, James Woodard and D'Andre Wright, were selected to the C-USA All-Freshman Team. Tulsa improved to 21-13 in Manning's 2nd year going 13 - 3 in conference. Tulsa had won the C-USA regular season and conference tournament and advancing to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2003. The Golden Hurricanes lost in the second round to the UCLA Bruins 76-59.

Wake Forest

On April 4, 2014, Manning agreed to become the head coach at Wake Forest University.[8]

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Tulsa Golden Hurricane (Conference USA) (2012–2014)
2012–13 Tulsa 17–16 8–8 6th CBI First Round
2013–14 Tulsa 21–13 13–3 T–1st NCAA Round of 64
Tulsa: 38–29 (.567) 21–11 (.656)
Wake Forest (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2014–present)
2014–15 Wake Forest 13–19 5–13 12th
2015–16 Wake Forest 10–15 1–12
Wake Forest: 23–34 (.404) 6–25 (.194)
Total: 61–63 (.492)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

Personal

Manning is the son of former NBA player, Ed Manning. Manning's own son, Evan, accepted a walk-on invitation for the men's basketball team at Kansas for the 2012–13 season,[9][10] while his daughter, Taylor, is a member of the Kansas volleyball team.[11] Manning was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on November 23, 2008. In addition to his College Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement, in June 2008 Manning was named to the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame for his early high school career at Page High School in North Carolina. He is also a member of the Lawrence (Kan.) High School Hall of Fame.

NBA statistics

SEASON TEAM GP MPG SPG BPG RPG APG PPG Hi 40+ 50+ TD DD
1988–89 LA Clippers 26 36.5 1.7 1.0 6.6 3.1 16.7 149 0 0 0 4
1989–90 LA Clippers 71 32.0 1.3 0.5 5.9 2.6 16.3 39 0 0 0 4
1990–91 LA Clippers 73 30.1 1.6 0.8 5.8 2.7 15.9 31 0 0 0 6
1991–92 LA Clippers 82 35.4 1.6 1.5 6.9 3.5 19.3 34 0 0 0 13
1992–93 LA Clippers 79 34.9 1.4 1.3 6.6 2.6 22.8 36 0 0 0 16
1993–94 LA Clippers/
Atlanta		 42
26		 38.0
35.6		 1.3
1.8		 1.4
1.0		 7.0
6.5		 4.2
3.3		 23.7
15.7		 43
24		 1
0		 0
0		 1
0		 9
5
1994–95 Phoenix 46 32.8 0.9 1.2 6.0 3.3 17.9 33 0 0 0 7
1995–96 Phoenix 33 24.7 1.2 0.7 4.3 2.0 13.4 32 0 0 0 0
1996–97 Phoenix 77 27.7 1.1 1.0 6.1 2.2 13.5 26 0 0 0 12
1997–98 Phoenix 70 25.6 1.0 0.7 5.6 2.0 13.5 35 0 0 0 6
1998–99 Phoenix 50 23.7 0.7 0.8 4.4 2.3 9.1 19 0 0 0 1
1999–00 Milwaukee 72 16.9 0.9 0.4 2.9 1.0 4.6 19 0 0 0 0
2000–01 Utah 82 15.9 0.6 0.4 2.6 1.1 7.4 25 0 0 0 0
2001–02 Dallas 41 13.5 0.5 0.5 2.6 0.7 4.0 13 0 0 0 0
2002–03 Detroit 13 6.8 0.7 0.2 1.4 0.5 2.6 18 0 0 0 0
Career 7 teams 883 27.4 1.1 0.9 5.2 2.3 14.0 43 1 0 1 83

Career transactions

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Tulsa Agrees To Terms With Kansas' Danny Manning As New Head Basketball Coach". tulsahurrricane.com.
  2. ↑ http://si.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1121385/1/index.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.kshof.org/inductees/2-kansas-sports-hall-of-fame/inductees/182-manning-danny.html
  4. ↑ Huisman, Matthew (August 26, 2011). "Srinivasan Leaving O'Melveny to Become Deputy Solicitor General". The Blog of Legal Times. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  5. ↑ THE SEOUL OLYMPICS: SPORTS OF THE TIMES; N.B.A in 1992 Olympics? - New York Times
  6. ↑ Danny Manning agrees to be coach at Tulsa, sources say - ESPN
  7. ↑ Danny Manning of Kansas Jayhawks agrees to coach Tulsa Golden Hurricane - ESPN
  8. ↑ Wake Forest hires Danny Manning - ESPN
  9. ↑ Bedore, Gary. Evan Manning to join KU as walk-on, Lawrence Journal-World, April 6, 2012
  10. ↑ Manning's son will walk on to KU hoops team | Campus Corner
  11. ↑ "Taylor Manning". KUAthletics.com.

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