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Antonio McDyess

Antonio Keithflen McDyess (born September 7, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player. Listed at 6'9" (2.06 m) and 240 lb (111 kg), McDyess played as a power forward.

Antonio McDyess
McDyess with the Spurs
Personal information
Born (1974-09-07) September 7, 1974 (age 50)
Quitman, Mississippi, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Listed weight240 lb (109 kg)
Career information
High schoolQuitman (Quitman, Mississippi)
CollegeAlabama (1993–1995)
NBA draft1995: 1st round, 2nd overall pick
Selected by the Los Angeles Clippers
Playing career1995–2011
PositionPower forward
Number24, 34, 14
Career history
1995–1997Denver Nuggets
1997–1998Phoenix Suns
1999–2002Denver Nuggets
2002–2004New York Knicks
2004Phoenix Suns
2004–2009Detroit Pistons
2009–2011San Antonio Spurs
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points12,227 (12.0 ppg)
Rebounds7,638 (7.5 rpg)
Blocks1,102 (1.1 bpg)
Stats at NBA.com Edit this at Wikidata
Stats at Basketball Reference
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Team competition

Early life

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McDyess was born at Quitman, Mississippi and attended the University of Alabama.[1] As a prep, McDyess was one of the top 30 players nationally, and made the Magic Johnson Roundball Classic. McDyess played college basketball at the University of Alabama. As a sophomore, he led the Crimson Tide in scoring (13.6) and rebounding (10.0), and was considered the SEC's best big man.[2] He decided to forgo his final two years of college to enter the 1995 NBA draft.[3]

Playing career

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McDyess was selected with the second overall pick in the 1995 draft by the Los Angeles Clippers,[1] and was traded to the Denver Nuggets before the season began, along with Randy Woods, for fellow forward Rodney Rogers and a mid-first-round pick that was later used to select Brent Barry.[4] McDyess's explosive leaping and power dunking ability allowed him to average 17.8 points and 8.8 rebounds per game over his first six seasons. In 1997, before his third year, McDyess was traded to the Phoenix Suns.[5] He helped the Suns to a 56–26 record during his lone season in Phoenix.

He became a free agent prior to the lockout-shortened 1998–99 season, and returned to the Nuggets. The move was controversial however, because after he had verbally agreed to return to Denver, he reconsidered an offer to return to Phoenix. According to Sports Illustrated, Jason Kidd, Rex Chapman, and George McCloud flew through a blizzard to Denver in hopes of convincing him to re-sign with the Suns. McDyess was attending a Colorado Avalanche game with Nuggets President and General Manager Dan Issel, and Issel told security to not let the three Suns players into the building. Without any further consultation, he re-signed with the Nuggets. That season, on February 28, 1999, McDyess scored a career-high 46 points and grabbed 19 rebounds in a 116–112 win over the Vancouver Grizzlies.[6]

Considered an up and comer, he was selected to be a part of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic men's basketball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2000–01, McDyess was named an All–Star and became just the third Nugget to averae at least 20 points and 10 rebounds for a season, after Issel in 1977–78 and George McGinnis in 1978–79. Near the end of the season, he suffered a partially dislocated left kneecap. Early in the 2001–02 season, McDyess had an injury found during practice in October. An MRI showed a partial tear in his patellar tendon and a mild sprain of the medial collateral ligament. He got surgery for the injury and ended up missing the whole season.[7]

McDyess struggled to play through the injury, re-aggravating it several times and going through additional surgeries over the next few seasons. He was sidelined due to injury for the remainder of the 2001–02 season as well as the entire 2002–03 NBA season.

 
McDyess with the Pistons in 2008

McDyess was traded to the Knicks on June 26, 2002[8] in exchange for Marcus Camby, Mark Jackson and the draft rights to Nenê, the seventh overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft. McDyess began the 2002–03 season as a highly anticipated addition to the New York Knicks. But on October 8, 2002, with 1 minute 55 seconds left in an exhibition game against Phoenix, McDyess reinjured the knee while dunking a rebound.[9] He would undergo another surgery four days later.

In the 2003–04 season, McDyess was traded to the Phoenix Suns after just 18 games with the Knicks, alongside Maciej Lampe, Charlie Ward, Howard Eisley, the draft rights of Miloš Vujanić and draft considerations in exchange for Stephon Marbury, Penny Hardaway, and Cezary Trybański.[10] He remained healthy while in Phoenix for the remainder of the 2003–04 season. That off-season, his knee was declared healthy and the Detroit Pistons signed him for the full mid-level exception.

As a member of the Pistons, McDyess was successful in reinventing his game. In his first season with the Pistons, averaged 9.6 points and 6.3 rebounds per 23.3 minutes. He relied mostly on mid–range and turn–around jumpers, but remained an efficient scorer, with a 51.3% FG% (ranked 13th in the NBA), helping the Pistons to an Eastern Conference Championship, though they lost to the Spurs in the NBA Finals. He was a dependable sixth man for Detroit, playing in all 82 games in each of the next two seasons. In 2007–08, following the departure of Chris Webber, McDyess became the Pistons' starting power forward.

On November 3, 2008, McDyess was traded to the Denver Nuggets, along with Chauncey Billups and Cheikh Samb, for Allen Iverson.[11] His inclusion in the trade was for salary cap purposes only, and the Nuggets bought out his contract.[12] He waited the league-mandated 30-day period before he could rejoin Detroit, then re-signed with the Pistons on December 9.[13] That postseason, on April 26, 2009, McDyess scored a playoff career-high 26 points, alongside grabbing 10 rebounds, in a deciding Game 4 loss against the Cleveland Cavaliers.[14]

The San Antonio Spurs reached an agreement with McDyess on July 8, 2009, to a three-year deal worth the mid-level exception (up to $15 million).[15] He spent the next two seasons with San Antonio as their starting Center, next to Tim Duncan.[16] On January 27, 2010, McDyess scored a season-high 17 points in a 105–90 win over the Atlanta Hawks.[17]

On December 19, 2011, McDyess announced his retirement from the NBA.[18]

NBA career statistics

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Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
 *  Led the league

Regular season

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1995–96 Denver 76 75 30.0 .485 .000 .683 7.5 1.0 .7 1.5 13.4
1996–97 Denver 74 73 34.7 .463 .171 .708 7.3 1.4 .8 1.7 18.3
1997–98 Phoenix 81 81 30.1 .536 .000 .702 7.6 1.3 1.2 1.7 15.1
1998–99 Denver 50* 50* 38.7 .471 .111 .680 10.7 1.6 1.5 2.3 21.2
1999–00 Denver 81 81 33.3 .507 .000 .626 8.5 2.0 .9 1.7 19.1
2000–01 Denver 70 70 36.5 .495 - .700 12.1 2.1 .6 1.5 20.8
2001–02 Denver 10 10 23.6 .573 - .818 5.5 1.8 1.0 .8 11.3
2003–04 New York 18 6 23.4 .458 - .579 6.6 1.1 .7 .6 8.4
2003–04 Phoenix 24 14 21.1 .484 - .516 5.8 .7 1.0 .5 5.8
2004–05 Detroit 77 8 23.3 .513 .000 .656 6.3 .9 .6 .7 9.6
2005–06 Detroit 82* 0 21.1 .509 .000 .557 5.3 1.1 .6 .6 7.8
2006–07 Detroit 82* 3 21.1 .526 - .691 6.0 .9 .7 .8 8.1
2007–08 Detroit 78 78 29.3 .488 .000 .622 8.5 1.1 .8 .7 8.8
2008–09 Detroit 62 30 30.1 .510 - .698 9.8 1.3 .7 .8 9.6
2009–10 San Antonio 77 50 21.0 .479 .000 .632 5.9 1.1 .6 .4 5.8
2010–11 San Antonio 73 16 19.0 .491 .000 .675 5.4 1.2 .5 .5 5.3
Career 1015 645 27.6 .497 .117 .670 7.5 1.3 .8 1.1 12.0
All-Star 1 0 15.0 .444 .000 .000 8.0 2.0 1.0 .0 8.0

Playoffs

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1998 Phoenix 4 4 36.8 .477 - .643 13.3 1.0 .5 1.5 17.8
2005 Detroit 25 0 19.8 .486 - .694 5.9 .8 .6 .9 8.0
2006 Detroit 18 0 20.6 .559 .000 .548 6.1 .6 .4 .7 7.6
2007 Detroit 16 0 22.1 .349 .000 .731 7.1 1.1 .7 .9 5.8
2008 Detroit 17 11 27.5 .538 - .821 7.4 .9 .6 .5 8.9
2009 Detroit 4 4 34.0 .523 - 1.000 8.5 .5 .5 .8 13.0
2010 San Antonio 10 10 24.7 .532 - 1.000 6.8 1.2 .2 .7 6.8
2011 San Antonio 6 6 24.2 .417 - .571 5.0 1.3 .3 .8 5.7
Career 100 35 23.6 .487 .000 .689 6.8 .9 .5 .8 8.1

References

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  1. ^ a b "Antonio McDyess". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  2. ^ "McDyess makes big jump into the national spotlight NCAA TOURNAMENT". Articles.baltimoresun.com. March 18, 1995. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  3. ^ "McDyess and then Alabama go down in 66–52 Okla. State win NCAA TOURNAMENT EAST REGIONAL". Articles.baltimoresun.com. March 19, 1995. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  4. ^ "Trade Evaluation: Clippers Trade Away Draft Pick Antonio McDyess". Archived from the original on February 25, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  5. ^ "Suns Make Trade for McDyess - latimes". Los Angeles Times. October 2, 1997. Archived from the original on January 11, 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  6. ^ "Vancouver Grizzlies at Denver Nuggets Box Score, February 28, 1999". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  7. ^ "McDyess likely to have surgery".
  8. ^ "New York Knicks News Headlines". New York Knicks. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  9. ^ PRO BASKETBALL; Grim News for Knicks: More Surgery for McDyess - New York Times, Query.nytimes.com. Retrieved on November 4, 2008
  10. ^ "Suns Complete 8-Player Trade with Knicks". Phoenix Suns. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  11. ^ "Pistons acquire Iverson for Billups and McDyess". ESPN.com. November 3, 2008. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  12. ^ "McDyess in play to all teams after clearing waivers". ESPN.com. November 10, 2008. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  13. ^ "Associated Press". Google.com. Retrieved February 16, 2022.[dead link‍]
  14. ^ "Cavaliers vs. Pistons - Box Score - April 26, 2009 - ESPN". ESPN.com. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  15. ^ Bucket, Busta. "Antonio McDyess To Sign with Spurs, Team Keeps Getting Stronger". Bleacher Report. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  16. ^ Kleeman, Robert. "Antonio McDyess, Spurs' Newest Secretary Of Defense, Finds His Way". Bleacher Report. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  17. ^ "Hawks vs. Spurs - Game Recap - January 27, 2010 - ESPN". ESPN.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2022. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  18. ^ "The Spurs waived F/C Antonio McDyess Monday so that he can retire". Blog.mysanantonio. December 19, 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
 
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