Willie Anderson (basketball)

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Willie Anderson
Personal information
Born (1967-01-08) January 8, 1967 (age 57)
AEK Athens
1998Maccabi Tel Aviv
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points
6,771 (12.2 ppg)
Rebounds2,082 (3.8 rpg)
Assists2,105 (3.8 apg)
Stats Edit this at Wikidata at NBA.com
Stats Edit this at Wikidata at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing  United States
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 1987 Indianapolis Team competition
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1988 Seoul Team competition
Anderson wore #40[1] for nearly his entire career, including his seven-season run with the Spurs.

Willie Lloyd Anderson Jr. (born January 8, 1967)

1998 EuroLeague Final. Anderson won an Olympic bronze medal as a member of the United States national team
in 1988.

College career

After playing high school basketball at East Atlanta High, Anderson played college basketball at the University of Georgia, with the Georgia Bulldogs, from 1984 to 1988. In his junior season, Anderson averaged 15.9 points, 4.1 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 1.4 steals, and 1.6 blocks per game, in 30 games played. During his senior season, Anderson averaged 16.7 points, 5.1 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 1.9 steals, and 1.4 blocks per game, in 35 games played, and he was named to the SEC's All-Conference Team.

Professional career

After attending and playing college basketball at the

1990 NBA Playoffs, Anderson averaged playoff-career-highs of 20.5 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 5.2 assists per game respectively.[3] The Spurs advanced past the Denver Nuggets in the first round, before losing to the eventual Western Conference champion Portland Trail Blazers, in a hard-fought seven game playoff series.[4]

Anderson played for the Spurs until the

Olympiacos Piraeus, and with the NBA's Miami Heat
.

He moved to the Greek club

waived
by the club at the beginning of the season. After signing with the club, he declared that season would be his last season in professional basketball, and after he was waived by the club, he did in fact retire from playing pro club basketball.

National team career

Anderson won a silver medal with Team USA at the 1987 Pan American Games. He also won a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

Anderson is the older brother of former

NBA player Shandon Anderson, and the father of former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Lady Mocs player Alex Anderson.[5]

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

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1988–89 San Antonio 81 79 33.8 .498 .190 .775 5.1 4.6 1.9 0.8 18.6
1989–90 San Antonio 82 81 34.0 .492 .269 .748 4.5 4.4 1.4 0.7 15.7
1990–91 San Antonio 75 75 34.6 .457 .200 .798 4.7 4.8 1.1 0.8 14.4
1991–92 San Antonio 57 55 33.1 .455 .232 .775 5.3 5.3 0.9 0.9 13.1
1992–93 San Antonio 38 7 14.7 .430 .125 .786 1.5 2.1 0.4 0.2 4.8
1993–94 San Antonio 80 79 31.1 .471 .324 .848 3.0 4.3 0.9 0.6 11.9
1994–95 San Antonio 38 11 14.6 .469 .158 .732 1.4 1.4 0.7 0.3 4.9
1995–96 Toronto 49 42 31.9 .440 .305 .856 3.8 3.0 1.2 1.0 12.4
1995–96 New York 27 2 18.4 .421 .200 .613 2.2 1.8 0.6 0.3 5.0
1996–97 Miami 28 1 10.8 .453 .421 .850 1.5 1.2 0.5 0.1 3.0
Career 555 432 28.8 .471 .266 .786 3.8 3.8 1.1 0.6 12.2

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1990
 San Antonio 10 10 37.5 .518 .400 .806 5.4 5.2 0.9 0.4 20.5
1991
 San Antonio 4 4 39.8 .485 .200 .615 4.3 4.8 1.5 0.5 19.0
1993
 San Antonio 10 0 21.9 .451 .545 .882 2.3 2.8 0.9 0.2 9.5
1994
 San Antonio 4 4 26.5 .378 1.000 .571 2.0 3.0 1.3 0.5 8.3
1995
 San Antonio 11 0 8.8 .450 .000 .667 1.1 0.9 0.5 0.0 1.8
1996
 New York 4 0 16.0 .318 .167 .857 2.3 0.3 1.0 0.0 5.3
1997
 Miami 9 0 13.3 .367 .250 .900 1.9 0.6 0.4 0.2 3.7
Career 52 18 21.9 .464 .333 .785 2.7 2.4 0.8 0.2 9.3

References

  1. ^ "Willie Anderson Statistics". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 2, 2009.
  2. ^ "Willie Anderson". National Basketball Association. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
  3. ^ "Willie Anderson Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft Status and more". Basketball-Reference.com.
  4. ^ 1990 NBA Western Conference Semifinals Spurs vs. Trail Blazers
  5. ^ "Alex Anderson - 2007-08 - Women's Basketball". University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Athletics.

External links

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