DANNY MANNING

'Daniel Ricardo Manning' (born May 17, 1966 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) is a former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. He is currently an assistant basketball coach for the University of Kansas Jayhawks. He is the son of former NBA player, Ed Manning.

Contents

Amateur career

Professional career

Coaching

Statistics

Career transactions

External links

Amateur career

Considered one of the greatest players in University of Kansas and college basketball history, the Lawrence, Kansas high school graduate left KU as the school's all-time leading scorer and rebounder after leading the Jayhawks to the 1986 Final Four and the 1988 NCAA National Championship. The 6-foot-10 forward set a Big Eight Conference record with 2,951 career points and won the Wooden, Naismith, and Eastman Awards as the college player of the year in 1988. In Kansas's 83-79 victory over the University of Oklahoma in the 1988 NCAA Final, Manning recorded 31 points, 18 rebounds, 5 steals and 2 blocked shots. For his seemingly single-handed performance in propelling the underdog Jayhawks to the title, the 1988 Kansas team was nicknamed "Danny and the Miracles" and Manning was honored as Most Outstanding Player in the tournament. A two-time All-American while at KU, Manning was later named the Big Eight Player of the Decade.
Manning was selected to the last all-amateur USA national basketball team in 1988, winning the bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Professional career

Manning was drafted with the first overall pick by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1988 NBA Draft and spent more than a decade in the league. During his NBA Career, Manning scored 12,367 points and averaged 14.0 points per game. He played only 26 games as a rookie because of arthroscopic knee surgery after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament, but returned for the 1989-1990 season. His most productive NBA season was 1992-1993, when he averaged 22.8 points a game and was selected to play in the All-Star Game. He was also selected as an All-Star the following season.
Continuing knee problems forced Manning to become a part-time player in 1996 after he had undergone two more surgeries. He won the 1997-1998 Sixth Man Award as the best reserve player in the NBA, averaging 13.5 points while playing about 26 minutes a game. At the time Manning held the distinction of being first and only NBA player to have returned to play after reconstructive surgeries on both knees (a feat since duplicated by Amaré Stoudemire). Manning was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks in 1999, but played for different teams during each of his final four seasons in the league.

Coaching

He announced his retirement from professional basketball in 2003 and served for four years at the University of Kansas as director of student-athlete development and team manager under KU basketball coach Bill Self. Manning was promoted to Assistant Coach at the end of the 2006-07 season as a replacement for Tim Jankovich who left the Kansas staff to take the position of Head Coach at Illinois State University.
Manning also currently coaches his son, Evan, and other 7th graders on his Adidas-sponsored MAYB 7th grade boys team, The Kansas City Jayhawks.

Statistics

SEASON	TEAM	GP	MPG	SPG	BPG	RPG	APG	PPG	Hi	40+	50+	TD	DD
'88-89	LA Clippers	26	36.5	1.7	1.0	6.6	3.1	16.7	29	0	0	0	4
'89-90	LA Clippers	71	32.0	1.3	0.5	5.9	2.6	16.3	39	0	0	0	4
'90-91	LA Clippers	73	30.1	1.6	0.8	5.8	2.7	15.9	31	0	0	0	6
'91-92	LA Clippers	82	35.4	1.6	1.5	6.9	3.5	19.3	34	0	0	0	13
'92-93	LA Clippers	79	34.9	1.4	1.3	6.6	2.6	22.8	36	0	0	0	16
'93-94	LA Clippers Atlanta	42 26	38.0 35.6	1.3 1.8	1.4 1.0	7.0 6.5	4.2 3.3	23.7 15.7	43 24	1 0	0 0	1 0	9 5
'94-95	Phoenix	46	32.8	0.9	1.2	6.0	3.3	17.9	33	0	0	0	7
'95-96	Phoenix	33	24.7	1.2	0.7	4.3	2.0	13.4	32	0	0	0	0
'96-97	Phoenix	77	27.7	1.1	1.0	6.1	2.2	13.5	26	0	0	0	12
'97-98	Phoenix	70	25.6	1.0	0.7	5.6	2.0	13.5	35	0	0	0	6
'98-99	Phoenix	50	23.7	0.7	0.8	4.4	2.3	9.1	19	0	0	0	1
'99-00	Milwaukee	72	16.9	0.9	0.4	2.9	1.0	4.6	19	0	0	0	0
'00-01	Utah	82	15.9	0.6	0.4	2.6	1.1	7.4	25	0	0	0	0
'01-02	Dallas	41	13.5	0.5	0.5	2.6	0.7	4.0	13	0	0	0	0
'02-03	Detroit	13	6.8	0.7	0.2	1.4	0.5	2.6	18	0	0	0	0
Career	7 teams	883	27.4	1.1	0.9	5.2	2.3	14.0	43	1	0	1	83

Career transactions

★ Drafted by Los Angeles Clippers in 1st round of 1988 NBA Draft (1st overall) on 28 June 1988

★ Traded by Clippers to Atlanta Hawks for Dominique Wilkins and 1994 or 1995 conditional 1st-round pick (1994 - #25 - Greg Minor) on 24 February 1994

★ Signed as free agent by Phoenix Suns to one-year, $1 million contract on 3 September 1994

★ Re-signed by Suns to six-year, USD $40 million contract with team-option for seventh year on 12 October 1995

★ Traded by Suns with Pat Garrity, the New York Knicks' 2001 1st-round pick (#18 - Jason Collins) and 2002 1st-round pick (#9 - Amare Stoudemire) to Orlando Magic for Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway on 5 August 1999

★ Traded by Magic with Dale Ellis to Milwaukee Bucks for Chris Gatling and Armon Gilliam on 19 August 1999

★ Waived by Bucks on 2 August 2000

★ Signed by Utah Jazz on 11 August 2000

★ Signed by Dallas Mavericks on 31 July 2001

★ Waived by Mavericks on 24 June 2002

★ Signed by Detroit Pistons on 5 February 2003

External links

★ University of Kansas Men's Basketball

★ Danny Manning's career statistics at Basketball-Reference