Rick Mahorn

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Rick Mahorn
New Jersey Nets
1996–1998Detroit Pistons
1999Philadelphia 76ers
As coach:
1999–2000Rockford Lightning
2000–2002Atlanta Hawks (assistant)
2005–2009Detroit Shock (assistant)
2009Detroit Shock (interim)
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As assistant coach:

Career statistics
Points
7,763 (6.9 ppg)
Rebounds6,957 (6.2 rpg)
Blocks1,007 (0.9 bpg)
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Derrick Allen Mahorn (born September 21, 1958) is an American former professional

BIG3
.

Mahorn had a reputation for physical play, and was a member of the late 1980s

NBA Championship
. After his playing career, Mahorn would go on to be an assistant coach under Pistons teammate and head coach
BIG3
, leading the team to the inaugural BIG3 Championship in 2017, making Mahorn the only one in history to have won a championship in the NBA, WNBA, and BIG3.

College career

Mahorn played

All-American and owned 18 school records. He scored 2,418 points while playing for the Pirates, averaging 20.3 points per game.[2]

Playing career

The turning point of Mahorn's career was perhaps when he was traded by the Washington Bullets to the Detroit Pistons. He was unhappy with the trade initially and, as he claimed in a 2014 ESPN documentary, showed up to training camp overweight and out of shape. After teammate Bill Laimbeer took him aside and spoke with him about what he was brought there for, Mahorn acquiesced and became an integral part of the Pistons’ core. In 1989, Mahorn - dubbed by Piston announcer George Blaha the "Baddest Bad Boy of them all" - won his only NBA championship with the Pistons.[3]

Two days after the Pistons won the championship in 1989, the NBA held an

expansion draft for its two newest franchises, the Orlando Magic and Minnesota Timberwolves. League rules dictated that only eight players on each roster could be protected from being drafted by either team, and the Pistons elected not to extend that protection to Mahorn. As such, he was made the second pick in the expansion draft and the first to be taken by the Timberwolves; the Pistons were conducting their victory celebration in Detroit while the draft was happening and Mahorn was taken aside during the festivities, so he could be told. Pistons general manager Jack McCloskey
tried to reacquire Mahorn to no avail, and years later Mahorn was shown to still be bothered by what transpired as the story of the expansion draft brought him to tears during the 2014 ESPN film about the team.

Mahorn, as it turned out, would never play for Minnesota. After refusing to report to the Timberwolves, he ended up being traded instead to the

New Jersey Nets.[7] He played with the Nets for four seasons, before returning to the Pistons in 1996–97 under coach Doug Collins
. He retired after the 1999 season, after a second stint with the 76ers.

Coaching

WNBA

Mahorn then served as a color commentator for Pistons radio broadcasts, and as an assistant coach under former teammate Bill Laimbeer with the WNBA's Detroit Shock. Laimbeer and Mahorn led the Shock to two WNBA titles (2006, 2008).[8]

On July 22, 2008, at a Sparks-Shock game, Mahorn attempted to break up a brawl. When attempting to restrain Lisa Leslie, he put his left hand out and Leslie fell to the ground. Mahorn was suspended for two games.[9]

On June 15, 2009, he became the head coach of the Shock, a position he held until the franchise moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma after the season. Shortly afterward, Mahorn continued his work with Pistons radio, doing color commentary alongside Mark Champion.

BIG3

In 2017, Mahorn became head coach of

BIG3 basketball league's inaugural season. His team's players included Al Harrington and Kenyon Martin.[10]

NBA 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
 †  Won an NBA championship

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1980–81 Washington 52 0 13.4 .507 .000 .675 4.1 0.5 0.4 .8 4.8
1981–82 Washington 80 80 33.3 .507 .000 .632 8.8 1.9 0.7 1.7 12.2
1982–83 Washington 82 82 36.9 .490 .000 .575 9.5 1.4 1.0 1.8 11.0
1983–84 Washington 82 82 32.9 .507 .000 .651 9.0 1.6 0.8 1.5 9.0
1984–85 Washington 77 63 26.9 .499 .000 .653 7.9 1.6 0.8 1.4 6.3
1985–86 Detroit 80 12 18.0 .455 .000 .681 5.2 0.8 0.5 .8 4.9
1986–87 Detroit 63 6 20.3 .477 .000 .821 6.0 0.6 0.5 .8 6.1
1987–88 Detroit 67 64 29.3 .574 .500 .756 8.4 0.9 0.6 .6 10.7
1988–89† Detroit 72 61 24.9 .517 .000 .748 6.9 0.8 0.6 .9 7.3
1989–90 Philadelphia 75 66 30.3 .497 .222 .715 7.6 1.3 0.6 1.4 10.8
1990–91 Philadelphia 80 74 30.5 .467 .000 .788 7.8 1.5 1.0 .7 8.9
1992–93 New Jersey 74 9 14.6 .472 .333 .800 3.8 0.4 0.3 .4 3.9
1993–94 New Jersey 28 0 8.1 .489 .000 .650 1.9 0.2 0.1 .2 2.1
1994–95 New Jersey 58 7 10.9 .523 .333 .796 2.8 0.4 0.2 .2 3.4
1995–96 New Jersey 50 0 9.0 .352 .000 .723 2.2 0.3 0.3 .3 2.4
1996–97 Detroit 22 7 9.9 .370 .000 .727 2.4 0.3 0.2 .1 2.5
1997–98 Detroit 59 0 12.0 .457 .000 .676 3.3 0.3 0.2 .1 2.4
1998–99 Philadelphia 16 0 7.9 .278 .000 .375 1.4 0.1 0.3 .1 0.8
Career 1117 613 23.1 .493 .132 .704 6.2 1.0 0.6 .9 6.9

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1982
 Washington 7 7 34.6 .438 .000 .714 8.7 1.9 1.4 .7 10.6
1984
 Washington 4 4 38.5 .600 .000 .800 10.8 1.5 0.3 1.5 9.5
1985
 Washington 4 1 10.3 .500 .000 1.000 1.8 0.0 0.0 .8 3.0
1986
 Detroit 4 0 15.3 .385 .000 1.000 3.0 0.0 0.3 .0 3.0
1987
 Detroit 15 15 32.2 .541 .000 .800 9.5 0.3 0.4 .7 9.7
1988
 Detroit 23 21 17.8 .344 .000 .684 3.9 0.6 0.2 .4 3.3
1989
† 		Detroit 17 17 21.2 .580 .000 .654 5.1 0.4 0.5 .8 5.7
1990
 Philadelphia 10 10 34.2 .430 .000 .769 7.0 1.0 0.7 .8 9.4
1991
 Philadelphia 8 8 26.0 .556 .000 .786 5.3 1.8 0.3 .5 6.4
1993
 New Jersey 4 2 15.8 .400 .000 .000 3.3 0.8 0.0 .5 2.0
1994
 New Jersey 3 0 6.3 .000 .000 .000 1.3 0.0 0.0 .3 0.0
1997
 Detroit 2 1 9.0 .000 .000 .000 0.5 0.0 0.0 .0 0.0
1999
 Philadelphia 5 0 5.8 .333 .000 .500 1.6 0.2 0.2 .0 1.6
Career 106 86 22.9 .427 .000 .750 5.5 0.7 0.4 .6 5.8

Personal life

Mahorn played himself in a 2017 episode of

Detroiters titled "Quick Rick Mahorn of Dearborn."[11]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ Pistons Announcers
  2. ^ "Derrick "Rick" Mahorn (2009) - Hampton Athletics Hall of Fame - Hampton University Athletics". hamptonpirates.com. Hampton University. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  3. ^ Rick Mahorn bio- BIG3.com
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  8. ^ BIG 3 signs NBA legends Drexler, Barry, and Mahorn as coaches - PR Newswire.com
  9. ^ Arritt, Dan. "Candace Parker, Lisa Leslie suspended after WNBA fight". Los Angeles Times. July 25, 2008.
  10. ^ Former NBA players Harrington, Martin win inaugural BIG 3 title - CBS Sports.com
  11. ^ Hinds, Julie. "Why Comedy Central's 'Detroiters' had a winning season". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2020-06-11.

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