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Chris Dudley 
Dudley at a Dorchester Conference reception in Seaside, Oregon, March 6, 2010 No. 22, 24, 52, 20, 14 Center Personal information Date of birth February 22, 1965 Place of birth Stamford, Connecticut Nationality American High school Torrey Pines (Encinitas, California) Listed height 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) Listed weight 235 lb (107 kg) Career information College Yale (1983–1987) NBA Draft 1987 / Round: 4 / Pick: 75th overall Selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers Pro career 1987–2003 Career history 1987–1990 Cleveland Cavaliers 1990–1993 New Jersey Nets 1993–1997 Portland Trail Blazers 1997–2000 New York Knicks 2000–2001 Phoenix Suns 2001–2003 Portland Trail Blazers Career highlights and awards Career NBA statistics Points 3,473 (3.9 ppg) Rebounds 5,457 (6.2 rpg) Blocks 1,027 (1.2 bpg) Stats at NBA.com Stats at Basketball-Reference.com Christen Guilford "Chris" Dudley (born February 22, 1965) is a retired American basketball player who played 16 years and 886 games in the NBA for five different teams. A journeyman center, he was known primarily for his defensive skill as a rebounder and shot blocker. In 2010, he was the Republican nominee for Governor of Oregon.
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Early life and education
Dudley was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Elizabeth Josephine (née Kovacs, c.1941- ), a teacher, and Guilford Dudley III (c. 1932- ), a minister.[1][2][3][4] His maternal grandfather, also a minister, immigrated from Hungary, and his paternal grandfather was Guilford Dudley, who was U.S. ambassador to Denmark under the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations.[2][5]
Dudley played high school basketball at Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, California.[6] Dudley was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 16.[7] He attended Yale University, where he played NCAA basketball for the Bulldogs from 1983 to 1987 and earned degrees in political science and economics.[8]
NBA career
Dudley began playing with the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 1987–88 NBA season. During his rookie season, he played in 55 of 82 games, averaging three points per game.[6] During the 1989-1990 season, he was traded to the New Jersey Nets. He played three years with the Nets, including the 1990–91 season, in which he enjoyed his best scoring average: 7.1 points per game in 61 contests.[6] In the 1991-1992 season, he was available for all 82 games, one of only two such years in his career. In the 1992-1993 season, he was a bench contributor as the Nets went to their second playoff spot in two years.[6] The summer after that season, Petrović died in a car accident in Germany, and Dudley went to the Portland Trail Blazers.
An injury kept Dudley out of all but six games during his first season in Portland. Though teammate Clyde Drexler was shipped to the Houston Rockets in the middle of the next season, Dudley and the Blazers made it to the playoffs. After playing 161 games for the Blazers between 1995 and 1997, Dudley went to the New York Knicks, where he backed up Patrick Ewing for three seasons.[6]
In 1999, he reached the NBA Finals for the only time in his career, but the Knicks were eliminated by the San Antonio Spurs, four games to one. Later that year, he grabbed his 5,000th NBA rebound during a game between the Knicks and the Detroit Pistons.[6]
After his stint with the Knicks, Dudley went on to play with the Phoenix Suns, participating in 53 games in the 2000–01 season. He returned to the Trail Blazers in 2002, and retired after playing three games during the 2002–03 season.[6]
In a career total of 886 NBA games, Dudley scored 3473 points (3.9 points per game), 375 assists (0.4 assists per game), 1027 blocked shots (1.2 blocks per game) and 5457 rebounds (6.2 rebounds per game).[6] He was the recipient of the NBA's J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award in 1996,[5] and USA Today's Most Caring Athlete Award in 1997.[9]
In 1990, Dudley missed 13 consecutive free throws, setting an NBA record.[8][10] In 1989, he set the record for most free throws missed in a single trip to the foul line, missing five consecutive free throws after the opposing team committed three lane violations.[11]
Post NBA
Dudley meets President George W. Bush
In 1998, he opened the Chris Dudley Foundation, an Oregon-based group intended to improve the lives of diabetic children. He received an NBA award as well as other community awards for founding the organization. From 2005 to 2007, he was a volunteer assistant coach for the Lake Oswego High School boys' basketball team, where he mentored UCLA-bound star Kevin Love.[12]
In early 2006, Dudley became vice president of M Financial Wealth Management.[13] Since October 2008, he has been a wealth management partner with Filigree Advisors.[14]
2010 Oregon gubernatorial campaign
Lawn sign in Hillsboro during the primary campaignSee also: Oregon gubernatorial election, 2010In the summer of 2009, Dudley, a Lake Oswego resident, was encouraged by the Republican Party to consider a run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Dudley declined to run for Congress, preferring to spend more time in the state.[15] On October 11, 2009, The Oregonian reported that Dudley was considering entering the Republican primary for Oregon governor in 2010.[16] In November 2009 he formed a campaign committee and raised roughly $340,000 by early December of the same year.[17] Dudley formally announced his entry into the race on December 16.[18][19] On March 6, 2010, The Oregonian reported Dudley had raised over $1 million, aided by a $50,000 donation from Nike co-founder Phil Knight.[20]
In May 2010, Dudley won 39% of the vote in a crowded Republican primary to win the GOP nomination, and prepared to face former governor John Kitzhaber in the November general election.[21] On September 29, 2010, The Register-Guard reported that Chris Dudley's campaign had received $5.6 million, more than twice than what was raised by the Kitzhaber campaign. His primary sponsors included in-state timber companies, industry trade groups, and Portland area business executives, including Nike chairman and co-founder Phil Knight.[22] The election was extremely close as polls had indicated, but Kitzhaber prevailed 49%–48%.[23]
Personal life
Dudley and his wife, also named Chris, live in Lake Oswego, Oregon with their three children.[7]
Charitable work
During his playing career, Dudley donated $300,000 to a non-profit organization to help pay the cost of college tuition for a class of fourth-graders at Vernon Elementary School in Portland.[2]
References
- ^ "Chris Dudley ancestry". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/dudley.htm.
- ^ a b c Oregon Republicans like what Chris Dudley brings to governor's race
- ^ CHRIS DUDLEY IS NOT CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK
- ^ Elizabeth Kovacs Will Be Married To a Clergyman; Yale Divinity Student Engaged to the Rev. Guilford Dudley 3d Sandin--Drews
- ^ a b Markowitz, Dan (January 25, 1998). "Knick player reaches for more time on court". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/25/nyregion/knick-player-reaches-for-more-time-on-court.html?pagewanted=1. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Chris Dudley NBA Statistics". Basketball Reference. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dudlech02.html. Retrieved June 2, 2010.
- ^ a b "About Chris Dudley". ChrisDudley.com. http://www.chrisdudley.com/about/. Retrieved February 22, 2010.[dead link]
- ^ a b "Chris Dudley bio". NBA.com. http://www.nba.com/playerfile/chris_dudley/bio.html. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
- ^ Trail Blazers Alumni Ambassador Corps
- ^ "Indiana Pacers at New Jersey Nets, April 14, 1990". BasketballReference.com. http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199004140NJN.html. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
- ^ "This Day in Sports: Chris Dudley's Trip To The Line Goes Horribly Wrong". ESPN.com. January 29, 2010. http://espn.go.com/blog/sportscenter/post/_/id/27450/this-day-in-sports-chris-dudleys-trip-to-the-line-goes-horribly-wrong. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
- ^ Konecky, Chad (2007-04-12). "RISE presents Gatorade National Boys' Basketball Player of the Year, Kevin Love". RiseMag.com. http://www.risemag.com/main.cfm?actionID=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=NatContent&categoryKey=gatoradePOY&articleId=9167. Retrieved 2007-06-30.
- ^ Eggers, Kerry (2006-03-21). "Dudley's right on the money". Portland Tribune. http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=34415. Retrieved 2007-06-30.
- ^ Chris Dudley profile
- ^ Epstein, Ethan. "Dudley Do-Right." The Weekly Standard. Web. 30 June 2010. <http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/dudley-do-right>.
- ^ Mapes, Jeff (October 11, 2009). "Former Blazers star looking at governor's race". The Oregonian. http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2009/10/former_blazers_star_looking_at.html. Retrieved October 13, 2009.
- ^ Mapes, Jeff (December 3, 2009). "Dudley has impressive cash haul to start campaign". The Oregonian. http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/12/dudley_has_impressive_cash_hau.html. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
- ^ "Dudley jumps into Oregon governor's race". Lake Oswego Review. December 16, 2009. http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=126099263754883000. Retrieved December 16, 2009.
- ^ "Dudley for Governor". http://www.chrisdudley.com/. Retrieved December 16, 2009.
- ^ Mapes, Jeff (March 6, 2010). "Former Blazer Chris Dudley seeks to outpoint Republican rivals at state GOP conference". The Oregonian. http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/03/former_blazer_chris_dudley_see.html. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
- ^ "Oregon 2010 Primary Results: Governor". The Oregonian. May 18, 2010. http://gov.oregonlive.com/election/2010primary/Governor/. Retrieved May 19, 2010.
- ^ Steves, David (2010-09-29). "Dudley doubles donor dollars". The Register-Guard. http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/25346039-41/dudley-million-oregon-association-kitzhaber.csp. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
- ^ Steves, David (November 3, 2010). "Democrat Kitzhaber wins unprecedented third term as Oregon governor". The Register-Guard. http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/25499862-57/kitzhaber-dudley-race-chris-ballots.csp. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
External links
- Chris Dudley Foundation
- Biography at NBA.com
- Chris Dudley for Governor official campaign site
- Biography, interest group ratings, public statements, vetoes and campaign finances at Project Vote Smart
- Campaign contributions at FollowTheMoney.org
- Collected news and commentary at The New York Times
Party political offices Preceded by
Ron SaxtonRepublican nominee for Governor of Oregon
2010Succeeded by
Current nomineeJ. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award 1975: Unseld | 1976: Watts | 1977: Bing | 1978: Lanier | 1979: Murphy | 1980: Carr | 1981: Glenn | 1982: Benson | 1983: Erving | 1984: Layden | 1985: Issel | 1986: Cooper & Sparrow | 1987: Thomas | 1988: English | 1989: Bailey | 1990: Rivers | 1991: K. Johnson | 1992: M. Johnson | 1993: Porter | 1994: Dumars | 1995: O'Toole | 1996: Dudley | 1997: Brown | 1998: Smith | 1999: Grant | 2000: Divac | 2001: Mutombo | 2002: Mourning | 2003: Robinson | 2004: Miller | 2005: Snow | 2006: Garnett | 2007: Nash | 2008: Billups | 2009: Mutombo | 2010: Dalembert | 2011: ArtestCategories:- American athlete–politicians
- American basketball players
- American people of Hungarian descent
- Basketball players from Connecticut
- Centers (basketball)
- Cleveland Cavaliers draft picks
- Cleveland Cavaliers players
- New Jersey Nets players
- Portland Trail Blazers players
- New York Knicks players
- Phoenix Suns players
- Yale Bulldogs men's basketball players
- People from Stamford, Connecticut
- People from San Diego, California
- People from Lake Oswego, Oregon
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Oregon Republicans
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