Felipe López (basketball)

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Felipe López
Personal information
Born (1974-12-19) December 19, 1974 (age 49)
Marineros de Puerto Plata
2008Gaiteros del Zulia
2009Fuerza Regia de Monterrey
2009Obras Sanitarias
2010–2011Gregorio Urbano Gilbert
Career highlights and awards
Career statistics
Points
1,448
Assists252
Rebounds604
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Luis Felipe López (born December 19, 1974) is a Dominican former professional

ESPN 30 for 30 documentary entitled The Dominican Dream
.

Early life and high school career

López's father, who played amateur baseball in the Dominican Republic, and his family immigrated to the U.S. when he was 14. López played high school basketball at

guard made many All-American lists in 1994, earning Player of the Year honors from Gatorade
, USA Today, Parade, and many others.

Collegiate career

López appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated before he had played his first college game. He also appeared with Jim Brown and Jackie Joyner-Kersee at a televised town meeting on race and sports along with then-president Bill Clinton. López was the only Latino onstage during the discussion.[2]

López and

Big East
.

López finished his freshman season for the St. John's Red Storm with an 17.8-point-per-game scoring average. He earned a spot on the All-Big East Rookie Team and All-Big East Third Team. His numbers dipped slightly the next two years, bottoming out at 15.9 ppg as a junior. As a senior he averaged 17.6 ppg and garnered All-Big East First Team honors. He finished his career with 1,927 points, placing him fourth all-time in St. John's history behind former players

Chris Mullin, Malik Sealy, and D'Angelo Harrison
and sixth in Big East history with 1,222 conference points, while also ranking seventh all time in steals, 14th in assists, and 20th in rebounds. He also holds the St. John's record for most three-pointers made in a single season (60) and in a career (148).

Professional career

López was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 24th pick in the 1998 NBA draft and was immediately traded, along with Carl Herrera, to the Vancouver Grizzlies for point guard Antonio Daniels. López's drafting into the NBA was cause for great celebration in the heavily Dominican community of Washington Heights in New York City.[citation needed] He played 112 games for the Grizzlies before being traded to the Washington Wizards along with Dennis Scott, Cherokee Parks, and Obinna Ekezie in exchange for free agent Isaac Austin on August 22, 2000. López went on to sign as a free agent with both the Minnesota Timberwolves and Dallas Mavericks, although he never played a regular season game for the Mavs. He trained with the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Clippers in the first months of the 2005–06 NBA season before signing a contract with Lleida.[3]

López holds career NBA averages of 5.8 points, 2.4 rebounds and one assist per game.[4]

Career statistics

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

NBA

Source[5]

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1998–99 Vancouver 47 32 25.9 .446 .273 .644 3.5 1.3 1.0 0.3 9.3
1999–00
Vancouver
 65 0 12.0 .425 .167 .615 1.9 0.7 0.5 0.3 4.5
2000–01 Washington 47 38 23.6 .436 .207 .732 3.4 1.6 0.9 0.4 8.1
Minnesota 23 10 19.9 .454 .565 .576 3.2 1.5 0.9 0.5 7.4
2001–02 Minnesota 67 0 8.7 .378 .424 .673 1.2 0.6 0.3 0.0 2.5
Career 249 80 16.6 .432 .327 .659 2.4 1.0 0.6 0.2 5.8

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2001 Minnesota 4 0 13.8 .318 .200 .667 2.8 1.3 1.0 .0 4.3
2002 Minnesota 3 0 10.0 .250 .500 .500 .3 .3 .3 .0 1.3
Career 7 0 12.1 .308 .286 .600 1.7 .9 .7 .0 3.0

References

  1. ^ "Sports Illustrated story". Archived from the original on 2012-12-03. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
  2. ^ "Clinton Needles Sports World For Not Hiring Minorities". CNN. April 15, 1998. The meeting, broadcast live on ESPN, was the second of Clinton's three planned nationally televised town meetings on race. The forum's makeup angered Latino activists who complained that too few Hispanics were represented. Felipe Lopez, a basketball star at St. John's University, was the only Hispanic on the panel.
  3. ^ San Martin, Pablo (January 12, 2006). "El Plus Pujol Lleida se refuerza con Luis Felipe López" (in Spanish). Retrieved July 15, 2006.
  4. ^ "Felipe Lopez | Vancouver Grizzlies". www.nba.com. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
  5. Basketball Reference. Sports Reference
    . Retrieved 16 December 2022.

5. Beat Nuts-Get Funky https://genius.com/The-beatnuts-get-funky-lyrics

External links

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