- Robert Pack
Infobox NBA Player
name = Robert Pack
caption =
position =point guard
nickname =
height_ft = 6
height_in = 2
weight_lb = 180
nationality = American
birth_date = birth date and age|1969|2|3
birth_place =New Orleans, Louisiana
college = USC
highschool = Alfred Lawless
draft = Not drafted
draft_year = 1992
career_start = 1992
career_end = 2004
former_teams =
awards =Robert John Pack (born
February 3 ,1969 inNew Orleans, Louisiana ) is a retired American professionalbasketball player. Nicknamed "Pac-Man", the 6'2"point guard had a thirteen season career in theNBA , most notably with theDenver Nuggets .High school and college career
He was a high school team mate of future NBA player
Eldridge Recasner . Pack graduated from theUniversity of Southern California .Early career
Pack was not drafted by an NBA team, rather he began his career being signed as a free agent by the
Portland Trail Blazers onSeptember 16 ,1991 . He played 72 games for the Blazers as a rookie, averaging 4.6ppg in 12.4mpg as he was entrenched behind veteransTerry Porter andDanny Ainge . The Blazers went to theNBA Finals that year, before losing the series 4-2 to theChicago Bulls . During the 1992 off-season, Pack was traded to the Nuggets for a 1993 second-rounddraft pick .Mid career
Pack spent three seasons with the Nuggets from 1992-93 through until 1994-95, with his minutes and games started increasing each season. He was part of a young Nuggets team starring
Dikembe Mutombo ,LaPhonso Ellis andMahmoud Abdul-Rauf that went on to become the first eighth-seeded team in NBA history to defeat the first-seeded team as the Nuggets defeated theSeattle SuperSonics in the first round of the 1994 Western Conference Playoffs. Pack was then traded to theWashington Bullets forDoug Overton and Don MacLean onOctober 30 ,1995 . Injuries slowed Pack during the prime years of his career, as he never managed to play a full 82-game season. In 31 games for the Bullets, Pack averaged 18.1ppg, 7.8apg, 4.3rpg and 2.00spg in what was his best season statisically. Prior to the 1996-97 season he was signed by the New Jersey Nets before being traded mid-season in a blockbuster trade to theDallas Mavericks along withShawn Bradley ,Ed O'Bannon andKhalid Reeves forSam Cassell ,Chris Gatling , Jim Jackson,George McCloud andEric Montross . Pack remained with the Mavericks through the end of the 1999-00 season, never playing more than the 54 games he played in 1996-97 as injuries slowed his career.Late career
Pack returned to the Nuggets for the 2000-01 season after being traded by the Mavericks via the
Boston Celtics . He played 74 games that season, starting 11 of them as a replacement for starting point guardNick Van Exel . TheMinnesota Timberwolves signed him in the off-season and he played 16 games for them in 2001-02. His final two seasons in the NBA were as a veteran backup point guard off the bench for theNew Orleans Hornets (2002-03) and theNew Jersey Nets (2003-04). OnOctober 2 ,2005 , Pack signed a contract with theToronto Raptors for a try out with the team. His stint with the Raptors was short-lived as he was cut by the team onOctober 22 .Other
Pack was known as one of the game's better dunkers during the first half of the 1990s and one of the more spectacular in-game dunkers of all time among smaller players, due largely to his outstanding vertical leap and lateral quickness. He finished second in the 1994 NBA
Slam Dunk Contest during theNBA All-Star Weekend inMinneapolis, Minnesota , behindIsaiah Rider .He achieved two
triple-double s in his career. [ [http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/triple_doubles.html Triple-Doubles (Since the 1986-87 Season) - Basketball-Reference.com ] ]External links
* [http://www.nba.com/playerfile/robert_pack/index.html NBA.com: Robert Pack Bio]
* [http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/packro01.html Basketball-Reference.com: Robert Pack Statistics]Notes
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