Marvin Harvey (basketball)

Marvin Wayne Harvey (born May 12, 1954) is an American basketball shooting instructor, former college player and coach, who currently owns and runs the trademarked Shot Lab™ in Tampa, Florida and the Marvin Harvey Basketball School of Excellence.^[1]

He has been a shooting instructor and coach since 1982. As a basketball coach he has won over 400 games at the high school and college level. Over the past 28 years he has trained the best shooters in the world on every level. Two of his most notable students are Raja Bell and Tamika Catchings.^[2] He is known as the "Shot Doctor".^[3]

Early years

Harvey was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from Paseo High School. Harvey decided to try out for the Penn Valley Community College basketball team. After playing two years at Penn Valley, Harvey was offered a scholarship to play basketball at Ottawa University, where he eventually graduated in 1980. In 1982, Harvey tried out for the NBA in Los Angeles, California. After making the final cut, he was then chosen by Marty Blake (then Chief Scout of the NBA) to attend two other training camps for different NBA teams.^{[citation needed]}

Kansas/Missouri

Marvin Harvey became the head coach for the boys' and girls' basketball teams at Santa Fe Trail Jr. High School in Olathe, Kansas. During this time he coached the boys' team to three one-loss seasons. In 1983 however, he became the Shooting Coach for the

NBA player Clay Johnson. Clay Johnson would eventually win an NBA Championship with the Los Angeles Lakers. During the same summer he toured the United States as the "Shot Doctor" with top NCAA Women Basketball Coaches (World-Wide Sports) for the Lynette Woodard free basketball camps. The tours conducted free clinics with the help of top-name coaches and players across the country and discussed drugs, character, commitment, and what it means to be a student-athlete. Harvey wrote, and produced a thirty-minute video, "Shooting the Basketball", sold across the country with a free instructional development shooting poster.^{[citation needed}

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Florida/Alabama/Texas

From 1991 to 1993 Marvin Harvey tour the State of

NCAA Sports Program at Bishop State Community College. Here he worked with at risk children, trying to get them out of the at-risk system and on a more sensible track.^{[citation needed}

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In 2000, Harvey retired from teaching and coaching to focus on "Individual Player Development". He moved to

NBA Philadelphia 76ers to transform his game from the forward position to the guard position.^{[citation needed}

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2001 marked his return to the state of Florida where he started his non-profit organization C5D Inc, and a for-profit Harvey's "Shooter's Touch" Academy.^[4] In August 2002 Marvin Harvey received awards (Sensei) in Bogotá, Colombia for training international teams in the SaludCup, FIBA Basketball Association. He trained teams and introduced his Shooting Information to coaches from Europe, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba.^{[citation needed]}

2003, he took HSTA/Shot Lab LLC on the road, and became the Shooting Director at the RDV Sports Complex, Home to the

Monterrey, Mexico, where he met Vicente Fox, then President of Mexico.^{[citation needed}

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2008–Present

In 2008, Marvin Harvey partnered with a

Monterrey, Mexico. 2009 marked the creation of the Shot Lab. The most comprehensive break down of the shooting form and the mechanics of shooting a basketball in the world.^{[citation needed}

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The Shot Lab has been the place where College players like John Henson (

WNBA Eastern Conference Champion Indiana Fever.^{[citation needed}

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In 2010 Harvey authored three books Winning Within Reason, The New Fundamentals: Coaches Manual, and The New Fundamentals: Coaches Workbook. His 2010 Spring Tour included

Sao Paulo, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, and Japan.^{[citation needed}

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Harvey joined the Winthrop University Women's Basketball coaching staff for two years (2015–2017) to study shooting percentages and present the Fusion Rehab on the college level,[6] immediately after he created the Eight to IX Lab in Rock Hill, South Carolina and in Jacksonville, Florida. where he transitions players elementary skill-sets to pro skill-sets.^{[citation needed]}