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American basketball player and coach
Mark Bryant
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Position
| Assistant coach
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League
| NBA
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Born
| (
1965-04-25
)
April 25, 1965
(age 59)
Glen Ridge, New Jersey
, U.S.
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Listed height
| 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
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Listed weight
| 245 lb (111 kg)
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High school
| Columbia
(
Maplewood, New Jersey
)
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College
| Seton Hall
(1984?1988)
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NBA draft
| 1988
: 1st round, 21st overall pick
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Selected by the
Portland Trail Blazers
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Playing career
| 1988?2003
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Position
| Power forward
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Number
| 2, 9, 11
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1988
?
1995
| Portland Trail Blazers
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1995?1996
| Houston Rockets
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1996
?
1998
| Phoenix Suns
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1999
| Chicago Bulls
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1999
?
2000
| Cleveland Cavaliers
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2000?2001
| Dallas Mavericks
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2001?2002
| San Antonio Spurs
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2002
| Philadelphia 76ers
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2002?2003
| Denver Nuggets
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2003
| Boston Celtics
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2004?2005
| Dallas Mavericks (assistant)
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2005
?
2007
| Orlando Magic
(assistant)
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2007
?
2019
| Seattle SuperSonics
/
Oklahoma City Thunder
(assistant)
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2019
?
2023
| Phoenix Suns
(assistant)
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2023
–present
| Detroit Pistons
(assistant)
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Points
| 4,313 (5.4 ppg)
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Rebounds
| 2,992 (3.8 rpg)
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Fouls
| 2,018 (2.5 pfpg)
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Stats
at NBA.com
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Stats
at Basketball-Reference.com
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Mark Craig Bryant
(born April 25, 1965) is an American professional
basketball
coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach for the
Detroit Pistons
. As a player, he played collegiately at
Seton Hall University
from 1984 to 1988, and was selected by the
Portland Trail Blazers
in the first round (21st pick overall) of the
1988 NBA draft
. Bryant played for 10 NBA teams during his career, averaging 5.4 ppg and appeared in the 1990 and 1992
NBA Finals
as a member of the Blazers.
In the
1995?96 NBA season
with the
Houston Rockets
, he averaged 8.6 ppg and 4.9 rpg while playing 71 games. The next season, Bryant averaged career-high averages of 9.3 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game with the
Phoenix Suns
while playing 41 regular season games that season.
Bryant first became an assistant coach for the
Dallas Mavericks
during the
2004?05 season
. He then was an assistant coach with the
Orlando Magic
from 2005 to 2007. Bryant also became an assistant coach for the
Seattle SuperSonics
during
their last official season in the league
before the team moved to
Oklahoma City
to become the
Oklahoma City Thunder
. Bryant remained an assistant coach for the Thunder through the end of the
2018?19 NBA season
. Before the start of the
2019?20 NBA season
, Bryant was hired as assistant coach by the
Phoenix Suns
, returning to the franchise where he played as a player to join new head coach Monty Williams' staff.
[1]
Born in
Glen Ridge, New Jersey
,
[2]
Bryant grew up in
South Orange, New Jersey
,
[3]
and attended
Columbia High School
.
[4]
Bryant was one of the first players in NBA history to complete the Texas Triple, as he was a member of all three of the state's NBA franchises.
NBA career statistics
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Source
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Regular season
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Playoffs
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References
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- ^
"Phoenix Suns announce complete coaching staff"
.
NBA.com
.
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Mark Bryant Stats
, Basketball-Reference.com. Accessed January 7, 2018. "Born: April 25, 1965 (Age: 52-257d) in Glen Ridge, New Jersey"
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Martinez, Michael.
"College Basketball '87: Seton Hall; Carlesimo Starts To Lookup"
,
The New York Times
, January 11, 1987. Accessed December 23, 2007. "The team's pivotal player is Mark Bryant, a 6-foot-9-inch junior from South Orange, who had 24 points and 15 rebounds against Georgetown."
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Rowe, John. "PJ GIVING IT HIS ALL",
The Record (Bergen County)
, March 25, 1992. "His first breakthrough was convincing Mark Bryant of Columbia High School in Maplewood to come to the Hall."
- ^
"Mark Bryant"
.
Basketball Reference
.
Sports Reference
. Retrieved
July 3,
2021
.
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