Danny Manning

Danny Manning

No. 5, 6, 15, 25
Power forward
Personal information
Date of birth	May 17, 1966 (1966-05-17) (age 45)
Place of birth	Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Nationality	American
High school	Lawrence (Lawrence, Kansas)
Listed height	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Listed weight	230 lb (104 kg)
Career information
College	Kansas (1984–1988)
NBA Draft	1988 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall
Selected by the Los Angeles Clippers
Pro career	1988–2003
Career history
1988–1994	Los Angeles Clippers
1994	Atlanta Hawks
1994–1999	Phoenix Suns
1999–2000	Milwaukee Bucks
2000–2001	Utah Jazz
2001–2002	Dallas Mavericks
2003	Detroit Pistons
Career highlights and awards
2× NBA All-Star (1993–1994) NBA Sixth Man of the Year (1998) NCAA Champion (1988) NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player (1988) Naismith College Player of the Year (1988) John R. Wooden Award (1988) NABC Player of the Year (1988) 3× Big Eight Conference Player of the Year (1986–1988) Consensus NCAA All-American First Team (1987–1988) Consensus NCAA All-American Second Team (1986)
Career NBA statistics
Points	12,367 (14.0 ppg)
Assists	2,063 (2.3 apg)
Steals	1,000 (1.1 spg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals Men's basketball Competitor for  United States Pan American Games Silver 1987 Indianapolis Team competition Olympic Games Bronze 1988 Seoul Team competition

Daniel Ricardo "Danny" Manning (born May 17, 1966 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) is a retired American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. He is an assistant basketball coach at his alma mater, the University of Kansas Jayhawks. Manning won the National Championship with the Jayhawks in 1988 as a player, and again on the coaching staff in 2008. He is the son of former NBA player Ed Manning.

College career

Considered one of the greatest players in University of Kansas history, he led the 1988 Kansas Jayhawks to the National Championship against the Oklahoma Sooners. Manning left KU as its men's basketball program's all-time leading scorer and rebounder after leading the Jayhawks to the 1986 Final Four and the 1988 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Championship. The 6-foot-10 forward was the all-time leading scorer in the Big Eight Conference with 2,951 career points. He won the Wooden, Naismith, and Eastman Awards as the college player of the year in 1988. In Kansas's 83-79 victory over the University of Oklahoma in the 1988 NCAA Final, Manning recorded 31 points, 18 rebounds, 5 steals and 2 blocked shots. For his seemingly single-handed performance in propelling the underdog Jayhawks to the title, as well as the Jayhawks' less-than-impressive record going into the NCAA tournament (21-11, most losses of any NCAA champion), the 1988 Kansas team was nicknamed "Danny and the Miracles" and Manning was honored as Most Outstanding Player in the tournament. A two-time All-American while at KU, Manning was later named the Big Eight Player of the Decade.

Manning was selected to the last all-amateur USA national basketball team in 1988, which competed at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The team won the bronze medal, but was viewed as a disappointment, as they had been heavy favorites to win the gold until their loss to the Soviet Union in a semi-final game. Manning failed to score even a single point in that game, and afterward called it "one of the biggest disappointments of my life."^[1]

Professional career

Manning was drafted with the first overall pick by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1988 NBA Draft and spent more than a decade in the league. During his NBA Career, Manning scored 12,367 points and averaged 14.0 points per game. He played only 26 games as a rookie after a torn anterior cruciate ligament required him to undergo arthroscopic knee surgery, but returned for the 1989-1990 season. His most productive NBA season was 1992-1993, when he averaged 22.8 points a game and was selected to play in the All-Star Game. He was also selected as an All-Star the following season.

Continuing knee problems forced Manning to become a part-time player in 1996 after he had undergone two more surgeries. He won the 1997-1998 Sixth Man Award as the best reserve player in the NBA, averaging 13.5 points while playing about 26 minutes a game. At the time Manning held the distinction of being the first NBA player to have returned to play after reconstructive surgeries on both knees (a feat since duplicated by Kenyon Martin and Amar'e Stoudemire). Manning was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks in 1999, but played for different teams during each of his final four seasons in the league.

Coaching

He announced his retirement from professional basketball in 2003 and served for four years at the University of Kansas as director of student-athlete development and team manager under KU basketball coach Bill Self. Manning was promoted to Assistant Coach at the end of the 2006-07 season as a replacement for Tim Jankovich who left the Kansas staff to take the position of Head Coach at Illinois State University. Manning has become a key component of the Jayhawks coaching staff, filling vital roles in both recruiting and his work training the team's big men.

Statistics

SEASON	TEAM	GP	MPG	SPG	BPG	RPG	APG	PPG	Hi	40+	50+	TD	DD
'88-89	LA Clippers	26	36.5	1.7	1.0	6.6	3.1	16.7	29	0	0	0	4
'89-90	LA Clippers	71	32.0	1.3	0.5	5.9	2.6	16.3	39	0	0	0	4
'90-91	LA Clippers	73	30.1	1.6	0.8	5.8	2.7	15.9	31	0	0	0	6
'91-92	LA Clippers	82	35.4	1.6	1.5	6.9	3.5	19.3	34	0	0	0	13
'92-93	LA Clippers	79	34.9	1.4	1.3	6.6	2.6	22.8	36	0	0	0	16
'93-94	LA Clippers Atlanta	42 26	38.0 35.6	1.3 1.8	1.4 1.0	7.0 6.5	4.2 3.3	23.7 15.7	43 24	1 0	0 0	1 0	9 5
'94-95	Phoenix	46	32.8	0.9	1.2	6.0	3.3	17.9	33	0	0	0	7
'95-96	Phoenix	33	24.7	1.2	0.7	4.3	2.0	13.4	32	0	0	0	0
'96-97	Phoenix	77	27.7	1.1	1.0	6.1	2.2	13.5	26	0	0	0	12
'97-98	Phoenix	70	25.6	1.0	0.7	5.6	2.0	13.5	35	0	0	0	6
'98-99	Phoenix	50	23.7	0.7	0.8	4.4	2.3	9.1	19	0	0	0	1
'99-00	Milwaukee	72	16.9	0.9	0.4	2.9	1.0	4.6	19	0	0	0	0
'00-01	Utah	82	15.9	0.6	0.4	2.6	1.1	7.4	25	0	0	0	0
'01-02	Dallas	41	13.5	0.5	0.5	2.6	0.7	4.0	13	0	0	0	0
'02-03	Detroit	13	6.8	0.7	0.2	1.4	0.5	2.6	18	0	0	0	0
Career	7 teams	883	27.4	1.1	0.9	5.2	2.3	14.0	43	1	0	1	83

Career transactions

• Drafted by Los Angeles Clippers in 1st round of 1988 NBA Draft (1st overall) on June 28, 1988
• Traded by Clippers to Atlanta Hawks for Dominique Wilkins and 1994 or 1995 conditional 1st-round pick (1994 - #25 - Greg Minor) on February 24, 1994
• Signed as free agent by Phoenix Suns to one-year, $1 million contract on September 3, 1994
• Re-signed by Suns to six-year, USD $40 million contract with team-option for seventh year on October 12, 1995
• Traded by Suns with Pat Garrity, the New York Knicks' and 2001 1st-round pick (#18 - Jason Collins) to Orlando Magic for Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway on August 5, 1999
• Traded by Magic with Dale Ellis to Milwaukee Bucks for Chris Gatling and Armon Gilliam on August 19, 1999
• Waived by Bucks on August 2, 2000
• Signed by Utah Jazz on August 11, 2000
• Signed by Dallas Mavericks on July 31, 2001
• Waived by Mavericks on June 24, 2002
• Signed by Detroit Pistons on February 5, 2003

See also

• List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 145 games played
• List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 2000 points and 1000 rebounds

References

1. ^ [1]

External links

• nba.com/historical/playerfile
• University of Kansas Men's Basketball
• Danny Manning's career statistics at Basketball-Reference

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Name	Manning, Danny
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Date of birth	May 17, 1966
Place of birth	Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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