Jim Cleamons

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Jim Cleamons
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Personal information
Born (1949-09-13) September 13, 1949 (age 75)
Lincolnton, North Carolina, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school Linden-McKinley (Columbus, Ohio)
College Ohio State (1968–1971)
NBA draft 1971: 1st round, 13th overall pick
Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers
Playing career1971–1980
Position Shooting guard / point guard
Number11, 5, 35, 33
Coaching career1982–present
Career history
As player:
1971–1972 Los Angeles Lakers
1972–1977 Cleveland Cavaliers
1977–1979 New York Knicks
1979–1980 Washington Bullets
As coach:
1982–1983 Furman (assistant)
1983–1987 Ohio State (assistant)
1987–1989 Youngstown State
1989–1996 Chicago Bulls (assistant)
1996–1997 Dallas Mavericks
1998–1999 Chicago Condors
1999–2004 Los Angeles Lakers (assistant)
2004–2006 New Orleans Hornets (assistant)
2006–2011 Los Angeles Lakers (assistant)
2011–2012 Zhejiang Guangsha
2013–2014 Milwaukee Bucks (assistant)
2014–2016 New York Knicks (assistant)
2017–2018 Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As assistant coach:

Career statistics
Points 5,412 (8.3 ppg)
Rebounds 1,981 (3.0 rpg)
Assists 2,531 (3.9 apg)
Stats at NBA.com  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Stats at Basketball Reference

James Mitchell Cleamons (born September 13, 1949) is an American former professional basketball player and was a coach in the NBA and at the college and high school levels. He was an assistant coach on nine National Basketball Association (NBA) championship teams.

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Early life

Cleamons was born on September 13, 1949, in Lincolnton, North Carolina. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from Linden-McKinley High School in 1967. He played on an Ohio state championship basketball team at Linden-McKinley. [1] [2] [3]

Cleamons attended Ohio State University in Columbus, earning a degree in education. He played on its basketball team as a swingman. He played forward as a sophomore and junior, and point guard his senior year (1970-71). In 1971, he was team captain and led the team to a Big Ten championship. The team had a 20–6 record overall. In the 1971 NCAA tournament, the Buckeyes defeated Marquette in the regional semifinals, but lost to Western Kentucky in overtime at the regional finals. Ohio State finished the season ranked 10th in the nation by the Associated Press (AP). [1] [2] [4] [5] [6] [7]

He averaged 18.5 points and 7.3 rebounds per game over three years. [8] He was selected first team All-Big Ten for the 1970-71 season. [9]

Playing career

Cleamons was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 13th pick of the 1971 NBA draft. [10] He had a nine-year NBA career for four teams (the Lakers, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the New York Knicks, and the Washington Bullets). In 1976, Cleamons was selected to the NBA All-Defense 2nd team. [11] His playing height and weight are listed as 6 ft 3 in (1.91m), 185 pounds (84kg). [12]

In 1971-72, Cleamons was the only rookie playing on a Lakers team that won 33 straight games, finished the regular season 69–13, and won the NBA championship. It is considered one of the greatest teams in league history. [13] [14] [15] As back-up point guard to future hall of fame player Jerry West, Cleamons averaged only 5.3 minutes per game. [15] [16]

In August of 1972, the Lakers traded Cleamons to the Cleveland Cavaliers for a second round draft pick. On hearing he was traded, Cleamons cried. [3] [12] He was a part-time player during his first two years in Cleveland, but in the 1974-75 season his playing time increased to over 36 minutes per game. [12]

He started every game in the 1975-76 season for the Cavaliers, averaging a career high 12.2 points per game, along with 4.3 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game. This was the Cavaliers first truly successful squad in its six-year history, and became known as the "Miracle of Richfield" team under coach Bill Fitch. [12] [17] Cleamons was a key young player on a team that included a focus on "dogged defense". [3]

The team won its first playoff round over the Washington Bullets in a dramatic seven game series decided by two points in the final game, [18] but lost to the Boston Celtics in the next round. [19] Cleamons' most memorable play as a Cavalier came in Game 5 of the Bullets series, when he grabbed a Bingo Smith air ball and put in the game-winning layup in the game's last seconds. [3]

Cleamons played one more season in Cleveland, and signed as a free agent with the New York Knicks in October 1977, with the Cavaliers receiving the 32-year old Walt Frazier as compensation. [12] [20] Cleamons played two full seasons with the Knicks, and early in his third season (1979-80), he was traded to the Bullets for a 1981 third round draft pick. He was the first Knick to make a three-point field goal in the regular season. He averaged 26.9 minutes per game in 57 games for the Bullets, in what was his final NBA season as a player. [12] [2]

Coaching career

After retiring as a player, Cleamons began coaching at the college level. He was an assistant coach at Furman (1982-83) and Ohio State (1983-1987), and became head coach at Youngstown State from 1987-89. [21] [6]

Cleamons had been a teammate of Phil Jackson when they played together with the Knicks. They both knew basketball and had "basketball chemistry" in discussing the game. A decade later, in 1989, when Jackson became head coach of the Chicago Bulls, he invited Cleamons to join his staff, and Cleamons eventually did so. [3] He would be Jackon's assistant on nine NBA championship teams with the Bulls and Lakers, coaching both Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant (among others). [6]

Cleamons worked as an assistant coach for the Bulls from 1989 to 1996. [22] He was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks for slightly over one year, from 1996 to 1997. [6] [22] He then was the head coach of the Chicago Condors of the American Basketball league, a short-lived women's professional basketball league in the mid Nineties. [7]

He was an assistant coach again with Jackson with the Lakers, from 1999-2004 and 2006-11. [21] [23] Between the two periods with the Lakers, he was an assistant with the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets (2004-2006). In 2011, Cleamons became a coach in the Chinese Basketball Association. [24] In 2013, he became an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks for one season. [7] For a few games during his tenure with the Lakers, he served as acting head coach while Phil Jackson was absent. [25]

In 2014, Jackson hired Cleamons to join the New York Knicks coaching staff under Derek Fisher. [26]

In 2017, Cleamons accepted a position as an assistant coach for the Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA) high school boys basketball team. [27] [28] He was not on the coaching staff for the 2019-2020 season. [29]

Personal life

In late 2019 and early 2020, Cleamons served as an NBA basketball ambassador in Africa and Australia. In 2020, he and his wife returned to live in Columbus. [2] He coached the Ohio team in the 2022 HCBU College Basketball All Star Game. [30] Since moving back to Columbus he has served as a motivational speaker and basketball instructor to high school youth. [31] [30]

Honors

In 1984, he was inducted into the Ohio State Hall of Fame. [32] In 2008, he was inducted into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame. [1] In 2019, he was inducted into the Ohio High School Circle of Champions. [33]

Career playing statistics

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage 3P%  3-point field goal percentage FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game APG  Assists per game SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game PPG Points per game Bold Career high
 † Won an NBA championship

NBA

Source [34]

Regular season

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
1971–72† L.A. Lakers 385.3.350.7781.0.92.6
1972–73 Cleveland 8017.4.454.7432.12.65.7
1973–74 Cleveland 8120.3.433.6992.82.8.8.27.0
1974–75 Cleveland 7436.4.480.7964.45.11.1.311.9
1975–76 Cleveland 828234.6.466.7984.35.21.5.212.2
1976–77 Cleveland 6034.1.434.7574.65.11.1.410.4
1977–78 New York 794425.4.480.7862.73.6.9.26.5
1978–79 New York 797130.3.473.7602.84.8.9.19.5
1979–80 New York 22011.5.435.375.800.91.8.6.13.4
1979–80 Washington 5726.9.483.174.7352.34.4.8.27.8
Career65219726.1.460.226.7653.03.91.0.28.3

Playoffs

YearTeamGPMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
1972† L.A. Lakers 62.8.571–.7.71.3
1976 Cleveland 1338.7.397.8255.54.7.6.213.8
1978 New York 621.2.3891.0002.23.8.5.05.7
1980 Washington 210.0.000––.5.5.5.0.0
Career2724.7.396–.8483.33.3.6.18.2

Head coaching record

College

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Youngstown State Penguins (Ohio Valley Conference [35] )(1987–1988)
1987–88 Youngstown State [36] 7–212–127th
Youngstown State (Independent)(1988–1989)
1988–89 Youngstown State [37] 5–23
Youngstown State:12–44 (.214)2–12 (.143)
Total:12–44 (.214)

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

NBA

Legend
Regular seasonGGames coachedWGames wonLGames lostW–L %Win–loss %
PlayoffsPGPlayoff gamesPWPlayoff winsPLPlayoff lossesPW–L %Playoff win–loss %
TeamYearGWLW–L%FinishPGPWPLPW–L%Result
Dallas 1996–97 822458.2935th in Midwest————Missed Playoffs
Dallas 1997–98 16412.250(fired)—————
Career982870.286————

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