Mookie Blaylock

Mookie Blaylock

No. 10
Point guard
Personal information
Date of birth	March 20, 1967 (1967-03-20) (age 44)
Place of birth	Garland, Texas
Nationality	American
High school	Garland
Listed height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Listed weight	180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
College	Midland College (1985–1987) Oklahoma (1987–1989)
NBA Draft	1989 / Round: 1 / Pick: 12th overall
Selected by the New Jersey Nets
Pro career	1989–2002
Career history
1989–1992	New Jersey Nets
1992–1999	Atlanta Hawks
1999–2002	Golden State Warriors
Career highlights and awards
NBA All-Star (1994) 2× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1994–1995) 4× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1995–1999) Consensus NCAA All-American Second Team (1989)
Career NBA statistics
Points	11,962 (13.5 ppg)
Steals	2,075 (2.3 spg)
3-pointers	1,283
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Daron Oshay "Mookie" Blaylock (born March 20, 1967), is a retired American professional basketball player. He spent 13 years in the NBA with three teams.

Professional career

A 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) push-and-pass point guard, he was rated among the better defensive stoppers in the game. The former Garland High School, Midland College (where he earned NJCAA All American honors in 1987^[1]), and University of Oklahoma star is most highly regarded for his quick hands and a ball hawking defensive style that produced more than 200 steals in a season five times and two NBA All-Defensive first-team selections. He was also a capable outside shooter, a fine passer who generally ranked among the league's assist leaders, and a durable instigator of the fast break. In 1988, he (along with Stacey King) led the Sooners to the NCAA title game.

Blaylock was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the 12th overall pick of the 1989 NBA Draft and settled quickly into Nets' rotation. He was traded to the Atlanta Hawks prior to the 1992–93 season, where he flourished under newly-signed coach Lenny Wilkens. He was traded to the Golden State Warriors in a trade that brought the 1999 10th overall draft pick Jason Terry to Atlanta, and finished off his career playing as a reserve for the Warriors.

NBA achievements

• Led the NBA in steals two years in a row (1996–97 and 1997–98), joining Alvin Robertson, Magic Johnson, Allen Iverson and Chris Paul as the only players to pull off that feat.
• Led the NBA in three-point attempts and finished second in three-pointers made in the 1996–97 season.
• Is the Atlanta Hawks' all-time franchise leader in three-point field goals made (1,050), three-point field goal attempts (3,023) and steals (1,321).
• Set the Atlanta Hawks' single-season franchise records for three-pointers made (231) and attempted (623) in 1995–96.

In popular culture

Fans of the basketball player, the band members of Pearl Jam originally named their group "Mookie Blaylock", but they were forced to change the name. They settled on naming their debut album Ten after Blaylock's jersey number.^[2][3][4] In addition, Blaylock himself is a fan of Pearl Jam.^[2]

In Tom Robbins' 1994 novel Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, character Larry Diamond uses the name "Mookie Blaylock" as a pseudonym for hotel stays.^[5]

In the Homestar Runner toon "Kick-A-Ball", the Umpire tells the Announcer that Mookie Blaylock gave him the ball featured in the toon, a reference to a similar scene in an earlier toon about Mookie Wilson.

Family

In 2011, two of Blaylock's sons committed to play football for the University of Kentucky.^[6]

See also

• List of National Basketball Association career 3-point scoring leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career assists leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career steals leaders
• List of National Basketball Association players with most assists in a game
• List of National Basketball Association players with most steals in a game
• List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 11 or more steals in a game

Notes

1. ^ Midland College, NJCAA All Americans, 1987
2. ^ ^{a b} Stout, Gene (August 23, 2001). "Pearl Jam: 'Ten' plus ten". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. http://www.seattlepi.com/pop/36136_pearl23x.shtml. Retrieved 2007-05-23. 
3. ^ Slowikowski, Tim (June 24, 2003). "From Mookie Blaylock to Pearl Jam: The Matt Cameron Interview". PopMatters. http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/pearljam-030624.shtml. Retrieved 2007-05-23. 
4. ^ Simmons, Bill (April 21, 2006). "State of NBA, Love & Trust". Page 2 (ESPN.com). http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060421. Retrieved 2007-05-23. 
5. ^ Robbins, Tom (1995) [1994]. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (2nd ed.). Bantam Books. p. 380. ISBN 0-553-37787-6. 
6. ^ http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2011/09/30/twin-sons-of-ex-atlanta-hawk-mookie-blaylock-headed-to-kentucky-for-football/

External links

• Mookie Blaylock at NBA.com
• Career statistics @ basketball-reference.com
• Career statistics @ databasebasketball.com
• Blaylock profile on Baloncestistas (Spanish)

Persondata
Name	Blaylock, Mookie
Alternative names	Blaylock, Daron Oshay (actual name)
Short description	American basketball player
Date of birth	March 20, 1967
Place of birth	Garland, Texas
Date of death
Place of death