Johnny Moore (basketball)

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Johnny Moore
Personal information
Born (1958-03-03) March 3, 1958 (age 66) [1]
Altoona, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
High school Altoona Area
(Altoona, Pennsylvania)
College Texas (1975–1979)
NBA draft 1979: 2nd round, 43rd overall pick
Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics
Playing career1980–1992
Position Point guard
Number10, 00
Career history
As player:
1980–1987 San Antonio Spurs
1987 New Jersey Nets
1989 Tulsa Fast Breakers
1989–1990 San Antonio Spurs
1992 Girona
As coach:
2004–2005 Fresno Heatwave
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points 4,890 (9.4 ppg)
Rebounds 1,548 (3.0 rpg)
Assists 3,866 (7.4 apg)
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John Brian Moore (born March 3, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), primarily with the San Antonio Spurs. He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns under head coaches Leon Black and Abe Lemons from 1975 to 1979. He spent his entire NBA career playing point guard for the Spurs, save for one game for the New Jersey Nets. A rare illness caused Moore to have his career put on hold in early 1986. [2] [3]

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College career

Moore started all 112 games of his four-year college career at the University of Texas at Austin. [4] He finished his career as the Longhorns' all-time career assists leader, with 714, and remains second all-time in assists per game, averaging 6.38 assists over the course of his four years as the their point guard. [5] His per-game average of 8.34 assists as a senior remains a UT men's basketball record. [5] Moore also posted a double-figure scoring average in each of his four seasons. [6] He received first-team All-Southwest Conference (SWC) honors following his senior season. [7]

As a junior, Moore helped guide the Abe Lemons-coached 1977–78 team to a 26–5 overall record (then tied with Jack Gray's 1947 Final Four team for the most wins in a single season in school history), a share of the Southwest Conference championship, and the 1978 National Invitation Tournament championship. [8] The following season, Moore helped Texas win a share of the SWC championship for the second consecutive year, defeat a school-record three AP-ranked teams, advance to the 1979 NCAA tournament as a No. 4 seed, and finish the season with an overall record of 21–8, giving the Longhorns their first back-to-back seasons of 20 or more wins in 31 years. [8]

NBA career

Moore was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the second round of the 1979 NBA draft as the 43rd overall pick, then the second-highest NBA draft position for any basketball player in UT history. [9]

Over 520 games in his NBA career, Moore averaged 9.4 points, 7.4 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 1.96 steals per game, and a field goal percentage of 46.0.

Moore recorded 20 assists during three games in his career, once during the playoffs, making him one of only seven players to record 20 assists or more in a playoff game. He also had two games of nine or more steals in a game, being one of only 50 different players to record nine or more steals in a game.

Moore is one of ten players to have his number ("00") retired by the Spurs.

NBA career 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
 * Led the league

Regular season

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
1980–81 San Antonio 82—19.2.479.053.6102.44.51.5.37.4
1981–82 San Antonio 797829.0.463.048.6703.59.6*2.1.29.4
1982–83 San Antonio 777333.1.468.227.7443.69.82.5.412.2
1983–84 San Antonio 594228.0.446.322.7553.09.62.1.310.1
1984–85 San Antonio 828232.8.457.281.7624.610.02.8.212.8
1985–86 San Antonio 282330.6.495.182.6863.19.02.5.213.0
1986–87 San Antonio 552722.4.442.278.8001.84.51.5.18.6
1987–88 San Antonio 4012.8.444.000—1.02.8.8.02.0
1987–88 New Jersey 1010.0.000——2.01.0.0.0.0
1989–90 San Antonio 5389.7.373.235.5931.01.5.6.12.2
Career52033325.8.460.251.7123.07.42.0.29.4

Playoffs

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
1981 San Antonio 7—17.7.486.000.7501.93.91.4.16.0
1982 San Antonio 9—32.4.476.000.5933.410.3*1.70.710.4
1983 San Antonio 11—37.6.533.529*.8004.314.6*2.5*.322.5
1985 San Antonio 5533.6.463.333.6526.08.42.0.413.2
1990 San Antonio 909.6.250.000.5001.22.3.8.11.8
Career41526.4.490.313.6833.28.41.7.311.3

Coaching career

Moore made his coaching debut in the 2010–11 season with the Austin Toros of the NBA D-League as an assistant coach.

In December 2012 Moore was named head coach of the Corpus Christi Clutch of the American Basketball League. [10] 10 of 12 teams did not survive the first ABL season of 2013, including the Clutch.

In the Fall of 2013 Moore was named head coach the South Texas Stingrays, an expansion team in the ABA. [11] [12] Team majority owner Marlon Minifee (who also owns the Texas Fuel) decided not to bring back the Stingrays to Brownsville for 2014–15, opting to form a new team: Central Texas Swarm (now known as the Am-Mex Swarm). Moore is currently head coach of the Swarm.

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  2. ↑ "A Career Takes A Shocking Turn Johnny Moore's Rare Illness Clouds Future, Jolts Spurs". Philly.com. January 31, 1986. Archived from the original on January 2, 2015.
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  4. ↑ "2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book" (PDF). texassports.com. p. 119. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
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  7. ↑ 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 141
  8. 1 2 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 89
  9. ↑ 2014–15 Texas Basketball Fact Book, p. 147
  10. ↑ "Clutch Hire Spurs Great Johnny Moore". American Basketball League. December 12, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Stingrays plan for pro hoops franchise". Brownsville Herald. September 17, 2013.[ permanent dead link ]
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