Everything about Alvin Gentry totally explained
Alvin Gentry (born
November 5,
1954) is an
American professional
basketball coach, and college basketball player, who has led three different
NBA teams. He served as an interim coach for the
Miami Heat at the end of the
1995 season, and later coached the
Detroit Pistons and the
Los Angeles Clippers. As of March
2006, Gentry is an assistant coach with the
Phoenix Suns.
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He was born in
Shelby, North Carolina, where he grew up, and attended
Shelby High School. His first cousin is former NC State and NBA star
David Thompson.
Gentry played college ball at
Appalachian State University under
Press Maravich and
Bobby Cremins. In
1978, he spent one year as a graduate assistant at the
University of Colorado. He also was an assistant coach at
Baylor University under
Gene Iba, in
1980. Gentry served as an assistant at the
University of Kansas under
Larry Brown, where they won the 1988 NCAA National Championship. After one year, Gentry joined the University of Colorado staff.
In
1989, he began his NBA coaching career as an assistant coach for the
San Antonio Spurs under
Larry Brown. It was in San Antonio that Gentry met his future wife, Suzanne Harris, the daughter of a prominent Baptist pastor and sister of a local sportscaster/radio host in the San Antonio area.
Gentry joined
Gregg Popovich,
R.C. Buford and
Ed Manning as
Larry Brown's assistant coaching staff during the 1988-1989 season when Brown left Kansas to coach the Spurs.
After two seasons in
San Antonio, Gentry left to become an assistant for the
L.A. Clippers beginning in the 1990-91 season. The next year, Gentry joined
Pat Riley's staff as an assistant coach for the
Miami Heat. He then moved to Detroit following the 1994-95 season where he served as an assistant for two and a half seasons before being named head coach late in the 1997-98 season.
Gentry briefly returned to San Antonio as head assistant coach following the 1999-2000 season, where he was reunited with former co-assistants
Gregg Popovich (the Spurs head coach and vice president of basketball operations) and
R.C. Buford (the Spurs General Manager). But the stint was short, with Gentry accepting the head coaching position of the L.A. Clippers weeks after taking the San Antonio job.
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