James William Cartwright (born July 30, 1957) is an American former professional
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
player and a former head coach of the
Chicago Bulls
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of the
National Basketball Association
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(NBA). A 7'1" (2.16 m)
center
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** Center (group theory)
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, he played 16 seasons for the
New York Knicks,
Chicago Bulls
The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded on January ...
and
Seattle SuperSonics
The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly known as the Seattle Sonics) were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle. The SuperSonics competed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Western Confe ...
, helping the Bulls capture consecutive championships in the
1991
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,
1992 and
1993
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...
seasons. He attended Elk Grove High School in
Elk Grove, California
Elk Grove is a city in Sacramento County, California, located just south of the state capital of Sacramento. It is part of the Sacramento– Arden-Arcade– Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 Census, the population ...
, and played
college basketball
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at the
University of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. The university's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hil ...
.
High school and college career
In high school, Cartwright played basketball for the Elk Grove Thundering Herd under coach Dan Risley.
In 1974 and 1975, he was named California High School State Basketball Player of the Year. In 1975, he was named California High School Sports Athlete of the Year.
On March 6–8, 1975, Cartwright's Elk Grove High School team won the 29th Annual Tournament Of Champions in Oakland (predecessor of the California Interscholastic Federation State Basketball Championship).
As a prep star, Cartwright was just as highly regarded as fellow preps
Darryl Dawkins
Darryl R. Dawkins (January 11, 1957 – August 27, 2015) was an American professional basketball player. He was particularly known for his tenure with the National Basketball Association's Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets, although he als ...
and
Bill Willoughby.
Cartwright played college ball at the University of San Francisco and was a consensus second-team all-American in
1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democrat ...
and
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
. During his time at USF, Cartwright played on one of the tallest starting lineups in collegiate history. He graduated as the all-time leading scorer for the Dons, averaging 19.1
points and 10.2
rebounds per game. Cartwright led San Francisco to three trips to the NCAA tournament, to the first round in the
1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democrat ...
and to the Sweet Sixteen in both
1978 and
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
Professional career
New York Knicks (1979–1988)
Cartwright was the third overall pick in the
1979 NBA draft selected by the
New York Knicks, making his only career
All-Star Game
An all-star game is an exhibition game that purports to showcase the best players (the "stars") of a sports league. The exhibition is between two teams organized solely for the event, usually representing the league's teams based on region or d ...
appearance in his first season. He averaged more than 20 points per game in his first two seasons for the Knicks, but after playing no fewer than 77 games in his first five seasons, a series of foot injuries caused him to miss the entire 1984–1985 season. Following that season, the Knicks drafted center
Patrick Ewing
Patrick Aloysius Ewing (born August 5, 1962) is a Jamaican-American basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the Georgetown University men's team. He played most of his career as the starting center for the N ...
with the number-one overall pick in the
1985 NBA Draft
The 1985 NBA Draft took place on June 18, 1985. It was also the first NBA draft of the "lottery" era. It was also around this time where the league decreased the amount of rounds the draft spent, with the previous few years lasting up to 10 roun ...
. However, ongoing foot problems limited Cartwright to only two appearances during the
1985–1986 season. When Cartwright returned for the
1986–1987 season, he and Ewing would often start and play together but during the
1987–1988 season Cartwright was relegated to the bench.
Chicago Bulls (1988–1994)
![Chicago Bulls and New Jersey Nets, March 28, 1991](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Chicago_Bulls_and_New_Jersey_Nets%2C_March_28%2C_1991.jpg)
On June 15, 1988, Cartwright was traded to the
Chicago Bulls
The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded on January ...
for forward
Charles Oakley. The Bulls were willing to part with Oakley, the league's second-leading rebounder in the
1986–87 and
1987–88 seasons, because of their need for a center and the rapid development of power forward
Horace Grant
Horace Junior Grant Sr. (born July 4, 1965) is an American former professional basketball player who is a special advisor for Michael Reinsdorf, the president and chief operating officer of the Chicago Bulls. He attended and played college baske ...
. Cartwright was the Bulls' starting center during their string of three consecutive NBA championships in
1991
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
,
1992 and
1993
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...
. During the
1992–93
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season, Cartwright took an elbow to the throat during a regular-season game against the
Indiana Pacers that fractured his
larynx and left him with a hoarse voice.
The Bulls, who were without
Michael Jordan the
following season following his retirement, made the
1994 NBA playoffs
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson M ...
but were eliminated in a controversial game 7 in the Eastern Conference semifinals by the Knicks. Cartwright departed the team thereafter as an unrestricted free agent.
Seattle SuperSonics (1994–1995)
Cartwright left the Bulls as a free agent and signed with the
Seattle SuperSonics
The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly known as the Seattle Sonics) were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle. The SuperSonics competed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Western Confe ...
. He only played in 29 games for the Sonics, and retired after the
1994–95 NBA season.
Coaching career
A year after his retirement, Cartwright joined the Bulls once again as an assistant coach under Phil Jackson ahead of the
1996–97 NBA season. He was a member of the championship-winning teams in
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
and
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
. The Bulls went through significant changes following the
1997–98 season, with not only Jordan and Pippen leaving, but
Tim Floyd
Tim Floyd (born February 25, 1954) is a former American college basketball coach, most recently the head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He was formerly the head coach of several teams in the NCAA and the NBA. Floyd is also k ...
taking over as head coach from Jackson. The Bulls had a lengthy rebuilding effort, and Cartwright took over the Bulls 27 games into the
2001–02 season, going 17–38 after the team's 4–23 start under Floyd and interim head coach
Bill Berry, the latter whom coached for two games before Cartwright was named interim head coach. The Bulls finished 21–61 on the year and the following season Cartwright was promoted from interim to permanent head coach. In the
2002–03 season the Bulls finished 30–52, but Cartwright would last only 14 games into the
2003–04 season — going 4–10 — before being fired.
Pete Myers and finally
Scott Skiles
Scott Allen Skiles Sr. (born March 5, 1964) is an American former basketball coach and player. He coached the Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks and Orlando Magic. A first-round draft pick out of Michigan State University, Skiles played ...
coached the Bulls immediately following Cartwright's tenure.
In 2004, the
New Jersey Nets
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New or NEW may refer to:
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* ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator ...
hired Cartwright as an assistant coach under
Lawrence Frank
Lawrence Adam Frank (born August 23, 1970) is an American basketball coach who is currently working as the President of Basketball Operations for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He formerly served as head c ...
. In 2008, Cartwright was named as an assistant coach for the
Phoenix Suns under
Terry Porter
Terry Porter (born April 8, 1963) is an American former college basketball coach and former player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was most recently the head men's basketball coach at the University of Portland. A native of Wis ...
. Suns
general manager
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Steve Kerr hired the former big man to help coach veteran big man
Shaquille O'Neal, all-star
Amar'e Stoudemire
Amar'e Carsares Stoudemire ( ; he, אמארה יהושפט סטודמאייר; born November 16, 1982) is an American-Israeli professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as a player development assistant for the Bro ...
, and upcoming draft picks. After the Suns dismissed Porter and promoted assistant
Alvin Gentry
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, Cartwright stayed on as assistant coach with the team.
In January 2013, Cartwright was hired to coach
Osaka Evessa in Japan.
In September 2014, Cartwright was hired as the head coach of the
Mexico National Basketball Team
The Mexico national basketball team (Spanish: Selección de baloncesto de México) represents Mexico in men's international basketball competitions, The team has made five appearances in FIBA World Cup, The governing body of the team is the Asoci ...
.
Personal life
Cartwright married his junior high school sweetheart, Sheri, and together they have four children Justin, Jason, James and Kristin and has 2 grandkids names Trey and Gavin. He earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from USF and later obtained a master's degree in organization development in 1998 from the same institution. In 2016, Cartwright became USF’s director of university initiatives.
Cartwright is an avid fan of
doo-wop music from the 1950s and 1960s, and plays guitar and collects transistor radios as hobbies.
NBA career statistics
Regular season
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New York
, 82 , , , , 38.4 , , .547 , , – , , .797 , , 8.9 , , 2.0 , , 0.6 , , 1.2 , , 21.7
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New York
, 82 , , , , 35.7 , , .554 , , .000 , , .788 , , 7.5 , , 1.4 , , 0.6 , , 1.0 , , 20.1
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New York
, 72 , , 50 , , 28.6 , , .562 , , – , , .763 , , 5.8 , , 1.2 , , 0.7 , , 0.9 , , 14.4
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New York
, 82 , , 82 , , 30.1 , , .566 , , – , , .744 , , 7.2 , , 1.7 , , 0.5 , , 1.5 , , 15.7
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New York
, 77 , , 77 , , 32.3 , , .561 , , .000 , , .805 , , 8.4 , , 1.4 , , 0.6 , , 1.3 , , 17.0
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New York
, 2 , , 0 , , 18.0 , , .429 , , – , , .600 , , 5.0 , , 2.5 , , 0.5 , , 0.5 , , 6.0
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New York
, 58 , , 50 , , 34.3 , , .531 , , – , , .790 , , 7.7 , , 1.7 , , 0.7 , , 0.4 , , 17.5
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New York
, 82 , , 4 , , 20.4 , , .544 , , – , , .798 , , 4.7 , , 1.0 , , 0.5 , , 0.5 , , 11.1
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Chicago
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, 78 , , 76 , , 29.9 , , .475 , , – , , .766 , , 6.7 , , 1.2 , , 0.3 , , 0.5 , , 12.4
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, 71 , , 71 , , 30.4 , , .488 , , – , , .811 , , 6.5 , , 2.0 , , 0.5 , , 0.5 , , 11.4
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, 79 , , 79 , , 28.8 , , .490 , , – , , .697 , , 6.2 , , 1.6 , , 0.4 , , 0.2 , , 9.6
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, 64 , , 64 , , 23.0 , , .467 , , – , , .604 , , 5.1 , , 1.4 , , 0.3 , , 0.2 , , 8.0
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, 63 , , 63 , , 19.9 , , .411 , , – , , .735 , , 3.7 , , 1.3 , , 0.3 , , 0.2 , , 5.6
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, 42 , , 41 , , 18.6 , , .513 , , – , , .684 , , 3.6 , , 1.4 , , 0.2 , , 0.2 , , 5.6
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Seattle
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, 29 , , 19 , , 14.8 , , .391 , , – , , .625 , , 3.0 , , 0.3 , , 0.2 , , 0.1 , , 2.4
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, 963 , , 676 , , 28.5 , , .525 , , .000 , , .771 , , 6.3 , , 1.4 , , 0.5 , , 0.7 , , 13.2
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, 1 , , 0 , , 14.0 , , .500 , , – , , – , , 3.0 , , 1.0 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 8.0
Playoffs
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1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
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New York
, 2, , , , 24.5, , .353, , –, , .667, , 6.5, , 0.5, , 0.5, , 0.5, , 10.0
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1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...
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New York
, 6, , , , 28.7, , .581, , –, , .773, , 5.7, , 0.7, , 0.5, , 1.2, , 11.2
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1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
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New York
, 12, , , , 33.2, , .556, , –, , .863, , 8.3, , 0.4, , 0.2, , 1.2, , 17.4
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1988
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New York
, 4, , 0, , 19.0, , .500, , –, , .733, , 4.8, , 1.5, , 0.0, , 0.8, , 7.3
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1989
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Chicago
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, 17, , 17, , 34.3, , .486, , –, , .700, , 7.1, , 1.2, , 0.5, , 0.7, , 11.8
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1990
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, 16, , 16, , 28.9, , .413, , –, , .674, , 4.7, , 1.0, , 0.3, , 0.3, , 8.1
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1991
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
†
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Chicago
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, 17, , 17, , 30.1, , .519, , –, , .688, , 4.7, , 1.9, , 0.5, , 0.4, , 9.5
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1992†
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, 22, , 22, , 37.8, , .474, , –, , .419, , 4.5, , 1.7, , 0.5, , 0.2, , 5.6
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1993
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...
†
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, 19, , 19, , 23.4, , .465, , –, , .778, , 4.5, , 1.5, , 0.6, , 0.2, , 6.3
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1994
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, 9, , 8, , 21.0, , .326, , –, , .813, , 4.9, , 1.2, , 0.3, , 0.2, , 4.6
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, style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career
, 124 , , 99 , , 28.2 , , .482 , , – , , .725 , , 5.4 , , 1.3 , , 0.4 , , 0.5 , , 8.9
Head coaching record
NBA
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, 55, , 17, , 38, , , , style="text-align:center;", 8th in Central, , , —, , —, , —, , —
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Japan
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Osaka Evessa
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See also
*
References
External links
*
Official NBA bio
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1957 births
Living people
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