Stephen Thompson (basketball)

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Stephen Thompson
Oregon State Beavers
Position Assistant coach
League Pac-12 Conference
Personal information
Born (1968-12-02) December 2, 1968 (age 55)
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school Crenshaw
(Los Angeles, California)
College Syracuse (1986–1990)
NBA draft 1990: undrafted
Position Shooting guard
Number5
Coaching career2002–present
Career history
As player:
1990–1991 Rapid City Thrillers
1991–1992 Oklahoma City Cavalry
1992 Orlando Magic
1992 Sacramento Kings
1992–1993 La Crosse Catbirds
1993–1994 Rochester Renegade
1994–1995 Grand Rapids Mackers
As coach:
2002–2005 Cal State Los Angeles (assistant)
2005–2014Cal State Los Angeles
2014–2022 Oregon State (assistant)
2022-presentOregon State (assistant AD)
Career highlights and awards
Stats   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg at NBA.com
Stats   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals
Men’s basketball
Representing Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Summer Universiade
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1989 Duisburg National team
FIBA U19 World Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1987 Bormio National team

Stephen M. Thompson Sr. (born December 2, 1968) is an American college basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach at Oregon State University.

Born in Los Angeles, Thompson attended Crenshaw High School and then Syracuse University, where he was named the Big East's Scholar Athlete of the Year. He played briefly in the NBA during the 1991-92 season for the Sacramento Kings (23 games) and Orlando Magic (one game).

He was selected to the Syracuse Men's Basketball All-Century Team in 2000.

Thompson was appointed head coach of the California State University, Los Angeles men's basketball team for the 2005-06 season after working as an assistant since 2002. [1]

He joined the coaching staff of the Oregon State University men's basketball program in 2014 as an assistant coach. [2]
In 2022, Thompson became the new assistant Athletic Director- Player Development. [3]

Notes

  1. CSULA Men's Basketball Head Coach Stephen Thompson to be Honored with Hanson Medal in Syracuse Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine , posted Feb. 27, 2007
  2. "Stephen Thompson". www.osubeavers.com. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  3. "Stephen Thompson". OSUBeavers.com. Retrieved November 24, 2022.


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