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Born | Fort Walton Beach, Florida, U.S. | March 27, 1967||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 215 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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High school | Crestview (Crestview, Florida) | ||||||||||||||
College | Georgia Tech (1985–1989) | ||||||||||||||
NBA draft | 1989: 1st round, 9th overall pick | ||||||||||||||
Selected by the Washington Bullets | |||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1989–2001 | ||||||||||||||
Position | Power forward | ||||||||||||||
Number | 12, 20, 21 | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
1989–1992 | Washington Bullets | ||||||||||||||
1992–1993 | Charlotte Hornets | ||||||||||||||
1993–1997 | Denver Nuggets | ||||||||||||||
1997–2001 | Minnesota Timberwolves | ||||||||||||||
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Career NBA statistics | |||||||||||||||
Points | 3,617 (5.3 ppg) | ||||||||||||||
Rebounds | 2,243 (3.3 rpg) | ||||||||||||||
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Tom Edward Hammonds (born March 27, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player and National Hot Rod Association drag racer. He was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and attended Crestview High School in Crestview, Florida.
Hammonds played college basketball at Georgia Institute of Technology, earning Rookie of the Year honors in the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1986. After graduating in 1989, he was selected by the Washington Bullets in the first round (ninth overall) in the 1989 NBA draft. He played 12 NBA seasons for the Bullets, Denver Nuggets, Charlotte Hornets and Minnesota Timberwolves, averaging 5.3 points per game in his career. He scored a career-high 31 points for the Bullets against the New York Knicks, on January 29, 1992.
While enrolled at Georgia Tech, Hammonds played for the US national team in the 1986 FIBA World Championship, winning the gold medal. [1]
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