Leon Douglas
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Born | Leighton, Alabama | August 26, 1954|||||||||||||
Nationality | American | |||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) | |||||||||||||
Listed weight | 230 lb (104 kg) | |||||||||||||
Career information | ||||||||||||||
High school | Colbert County (Leighton, Alabama) | |||||||||||||
College | Alabama (1972–1976) | |||||||||||||
NBA draft | 1976 / Round: 1 / Pick: 4th overall | |||||||||||||
Selected by the Detroit Pistons | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1976–1992 | |||||||||||||
Position | Center | |||||||||||||
Number | 13 | |||||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||||
As player: | ||||||||||||||
1976–1980 | Detroit Pistons | |||||||||||||
1980–1982 | Kansas City Kings | |||||||||||||
1982–1983 | Carrera Venezia | |||||||||||||
1983–1984 | CSP Limoges | |||||||||||||
1984–1987 | Yoga Bologna | |||||||||||||
1987–1991 | Maltinti / Kleenex Pistoia | |||||||||||||
1992 | ||||||||||||||
As coach: | ||||||||||||||
2004–2006 | Stillman College | |||||||||||||
2005 | ||||||||||||||
2006–2014 | Tuskegee | |||||||||||||
2014–2017 | Miles | |||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | ||||||||||||||
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Career NBA and Serie A statistics | ||||||||||||||
Points | 6,977 (9.7 ppg) | |||||||||||||
Rebounds | 6,098 (8.5 rpg) | |||||||||||||
Assists | 768 (1.1 apg) | |||||||||||||
Stats at NBA.com | ||||||||||||||
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | ||||||||||||||
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Leon Douglas (born August 26, 1954) is an American basketball coach and former professional player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and other leagues. A 6–foot-10 center for the Alabama Crimson Tide, he was a four-time All-Southeastern Conference selection. He was the first Crimson Tide player to achieve this distinction since Jerry Harper earned it in 1953–1956.
Douglas was the first Crimson Tide player to be selected in the first round of an NBA draft when he was selected fourth overall by the Detroit Pistons in 1976.[1] He went on to play for four years with the Pistons and then joined the Kansas City Kings from 1980 to 1983.[1] Douglas was a member of the United States basketball team that won a gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games. He played in the Italian league for more than a decade. Douglas' career led to his induction into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.[1]
After his retirement from playing, Douglas began his basketball coaching career.[2] He was hired by Stillman College in his native Alabama as the head basketball coach on May 5, 2004.[2] Douglas spent the 2004–05 and 2005–06 seasons as the head coach at Stillman, where he led the Tigers to the 2006 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Tournament championship and advanced to the NCAA Division II Tournament.[1] He left Stillman on July 17, 2006, to become the head basketball coach at Tuskegee University.[1] The Tuskegee Golden Tigers won three SIAC titles with Douglas at the hlem and in his final season, they advanced to the Elite Eight in the 2014 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament as the furthest an SIAC school has ever advanced in the tournament.[3] After causing a scandal at Tuskegee, with his personal infidelities and personal issues with the AD he resigned.
He was reluctantly hired as the head basketball coach at Miles College on July 31, 2014, as his 3rd SIAC school.[4] In his second season, Miles won 17 games, which was more than the school had won in the previous three years combined. After his 3rd seasons at Miles, his was fired and replaced by another SIAC coach .[5] In 12 seasons as a head coach, he has a 173–176 record coaching at Stillman, Tuskegee and Miles.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Douglas leaves Stillman to coach Tuskegee". Tuscaloosa News. July 17, 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Landing Douglas is a coup for Stillman". Tuscaloosa News. May 5, 2004. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ Rankin, Duane (August 11, 2014). "Commentary: Leon Douglas explains why he left Tuskegee". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ "Miles hires ex-NBA, Alabama player Leon Douglas". USA Today. July 31, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ Moore, Eric (July 11, 2018). "Fred Watson Leaves Benedict for Miles". Omnidan. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
External links[]
- Career statistics and player information from NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com
- Lega Basket Serie A profile (in Italian)
- 1954 births
- Living people
- African-American basketball coaches
- African-American basketball players
- Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball players
- All-American college men's basketball players
- American expatriate basketball people in France
- American expatriate basketball people in Italy
- American men's basketball coaches
- American men's basketball players
- Basketball coaches from Alabama
- Basketball players at the 1975 Pan American Games
- Basketball players from Alabama
- Centers (basketball)
- College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
- Detroit Pistons draft picks
- Detroit Pistons players
- High school basketball coaches in Alabama
- Kansas City Kings players
- Lega Basket Serie A players
- Limoges CSP players
- Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games
- Miles Golden Bears men's basketball coaches
- Olimpia Basket Pistoia players
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in basketball
- Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
- People from Colbert County, Alabama
- Power forwards (basketball)
- Reyer Venezia players
- Stillman Tigers men's basketball coaches
- Tuskegee Golden Tigers men's basketball coaches
- Virtus Bologna players