Jacque T. Vaughn (born February 11, 1975) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He serves as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Playing career

High school

A native of Pasadena, California, Vaughn attended

John Muir High School John Muir High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school in Pasadena, California, United States and is a part of the Pasadena Unified School District. The school is named after preservationist John Muir. History In 1926 the Pasadena ...

in nearby Pasadena, where he maintained a 3.94 GPA, and became the best high school player in that area since former Muir and NBA standout Stacey Augmon. Vaughn excelled both on and off the court, and by his senior year was ranked as high as the no. 7 high school recruit in the country and the no. 2 point guard in the class of 1993 behind arguably the nation's top player that year, Randy Livingston. Over the course of the season, Vaughn averaged over 21 points and 19 assists per game, while also compiling six triple-doubles. Named a First-Team All-American by nearly every publication on the market, Vaughn rounded off his special season with a selection to participate in the prestigious

McDonald's All-American Game The McDonald's All-American Game is the all-star basketball game played each year for American and Canadian boys' and girls' high school basketball graduates. Consisting of the top players, each team plays a single exhibition game after the concl ...

where he put on a show, scoring only 6 points but amassing 13 assists (still a McDonald's record), while also thoroughly outplaying the higher-ranked Livingston once again—this time on a national stage (they had both matched up against each other in the All-Star Game of the 1992 Nike Camp), and was named co-MVP with North Carolina's Jerry Stackhouse in the process. After considering Georgetown, Indiana, UNLV, Arizona and UCLA, Vaughn decided to play for coach Roy Williams at Kansas, continuing, along with fellow recruit and college roommate Scot Pollard, the California pipeline of high school hoopsters to

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, started by former standouts

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and

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, and continuing in later years with Paul Pierce and Eric Chenowith. As a senior in high school in 1992, Vaughn was awarded the Dial Award as the nation's top male high school scholar-athlete, becoming the first basketball player ever to win that award.

College

In his college career Vaughn became the starting point guard as a freshman after being chosen to replace incumbent starter Calvin Rayford. Among his first-year highlights were earning the MVP award at the 1993 Pre-Season NIT at

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in New York City and hitting a game-winning three pointer at the overtime buzzer to beat Indiana in an early season game at Allen Fieldhouse. Throughout his four years at Kansas, Vaughn was known as a good distributor of the basketball and effective defender with great speed and court awareness. By the end of his college career, he was the all-time leader in assists in Kansas basketball history with 804 total (since surpassed by Aaron Miles), as well as the Big Eight Conference's all-time record holder. In 1995, Vaugn was named Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar by ''Diverse: Issues In Higher Education''. Additionally in 1997, the award given annually to the school's assist leader was renamed to include Vaughn, Miles and original assists leader,

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, as the Hunter/Vaughn/Miles Assists Award. Vaughn earned a 3.72 GPA as a business administration major. He was a two-time Academic All-American at Kansas and the 1997 GTE Academic All-American of the Year. He was also a two-time all-conference pick and was named the Big Eight Player of the Year in 1996. His college jersey was retired on December 31, 2002 and hangs in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse.

Professional

In 1997, Vaughn was selected 27th overall by the Utah Jazz in the

1997 NBA draft The 1997 NBA draft took place on June 25, 1997, at Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Vancouver Grizzlies had the highest probability to win the NBA draft lottery, but since they were an expansion team along with the Toronto ...

. In addition to playing four seasons in Utah, Vaughn also played with the

Orlando Magic The Orlando Magic are an American professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida. The Magic compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The franchise was establ ...

, the Atlanta Hawks (in two separate stints), New Jersey Nets, and San Antonio Spurs. He appeared in 64 games for the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs during the 2006–07 season and finished his career there, retiring after the 2008–09 season. Over his career, he averaged 4.5 points per game and 2.5 assists per game. He also set an NBA record for consecutive missed field goal attempts to open a season, missing his first 22 to start the 2001 season with the Atlanta Hawks. After those 22 straight misses he shot a career best 47 percent that season.

NBA career statistics

Regular season

, - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", Utah , 45 , , 0 , , 9.3 , , .361 , , .375 , , .706 , , .8 , , 1.9 , , .2 , , .0 , , 3.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", Utah , 19 , , 0 , , 4.6 , , .367 , , .250 , , .833 , , .6 , , .6 , , .3 , , .0 , , 2.3 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", Utah , 78 , , 0 , , 11.3 , , .416 , , .412 , , .750 , , .8 , , 1.6 , , .4 , , .0 , , 3.7 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", Utah , 82 , , 0 , , 19.8 , , .433 , , .385 , , .780 , , 1.8 , , 3.9 , , .6 , , .0 , , 6.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", Atlanta , 82 , , 16 , , 22.6 , , .470 , , .444 , , .825 , , 2.0 , , 4.3 , , .8 , , .0 , , 6.6 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", Orlando , 80 , , 48 , , 21.1 , , .448 , , .235 , , .776 , , 1.5 , , 2.9 , , .8 , , .0 , , 5.9 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", Atlanta , 71 , , 6 , , 17.9 , , .386 , , .150 , , .779 , , 1.6 , , 2.7 , , .6 , , .0 , , 3.8 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", New Jersey , 71 , , 34 , , 19.9 , , .449 , , .333 , , .835 , , 1.5 , , 1.9 , , .6 , , .0 , , 5.3 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", New Jersey , 80 , , 6 , , 15.4 , , .437 , , .167 , , .728 , , 1.1 , , 1.5 , , .5 , , .0 , , 3.4 , - , style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;", † , style="text-align:left;", San Antonio , 64 , , 4 , , 11.9 , , .425 , , .500 , , .754 , , 1.1 , , 2.0 , , .4 , , .0 , , 3.0 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", San Antonio , 74 , , 9 , , 15.4 , , .428 , , .300 , , .763 , , 1.0 , , 2.1 , , .3 , , .0 , , 4.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;", San Antonio , 30 , , 0 , , 9.7 , , .320 , , 1.000 , , .889 , , .7 , , 1.8 , , .2 , , .0 , , 2.2 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 776 , , 123 , , 16.3 , , .429 , , .352 , , .779 , , 1.3 , , 2.5 , , .5 , , .0 , , 4.5

Playoffs

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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 ...

, style="text-align:left;", Utah , 7 , , 0 , , 3.4 , , .200 , , .500 , , 1.000 , , .4 , , .6 , , .0 , , .0 , , 1.0 , - , style="text-align:left;",

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

, style="text-align:left;", Utah , 2 , , 0 , , 3.0 , , .500 , , 1.000 , , , , .0 , , 1.0 , , .0 , , .0 , , 1.5 , - , style="text-align:left;",

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, style="text-align:left;", Utah , 7 , , 0 , , 9.6 , , .357 , , .500 , , .875 , , 1.7 , , 1.6 , , .6 , , .1 , , 4.0 , - , style="text-align:left;",

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

, style="text-align:left;", Utah , 5 , , 0 , , 11.4 , , .100 , , .500 , , , , .4 , , 1.6 , , .0 , , .2 , , .6 , - , style="text-align:left;",

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

, style="text-align:left;", Orlando , 7 , , 6 , , 18.7 , , .364 , , .000 , , .769 , , .9 , , 3.6 , , .6 , , .1 , , 4.9 , - , style="text-align:left;",

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

, style="text-align:left;", New Jersey , 11 , , 0 , , 14.5 , , .364 , , .000 , , .571 , , 1.0 , , 1.1 , , .2 , , .0 , , 2.5 , - , style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;",

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

† , style="text-align:left;", San Antonio , 20 , , 0 , , 10.4 , , .400 , , , , .500 , , .5 , , 1.4 , , .2 , , .0 , , 2.2 , - , style="text-align:left;",

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

, style="text-align:left;", San Antonio , 14 , , 0 , , 6.5 , , .273 , , .000 , , , , .6 , , .6 , , .1 , , .0 , , .9 , - , style="text-align:left;",

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

, style="text-align:left;", San Antonio , 2 , , 0 , , 10.5 , , .400 , , , , .500 , , .0 , , 2.0 , , .5 , , .0 , , 3.5 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 75 , , 6 , , 10.2 , , .342 , , .400 , , .690 , , .7 , , 1.4 , , .2 , , .0 , , 2.2

Coaching career

Vaughn was an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs from 2010 to 2012. On July 28, 2012, Vaughn was named the new head coach of the

. On February 5, 2015, he was fired by the Magic. Vaughn then spent the 2015–16 season working as a professional scout for the Spurs. He was hired as Kenny Atkinson's top assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets prior to the 2016–17 season, and was promoted to interim head coach position in March 2020 following Atkinson's mid-season departure. On September 3, 2020, the Nets hired

Steve Nash Stephen John Nash (born 7 February 1974) is a Canadian professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 18 seasons in the NBA, ...

as head coach, while Vaughn returned to his position as assistant coach. On November 1, 2022, Vaughn was named interim head coach after the Nets and Steve Nash parted ways, and on November 9, he was announced as permanent head coach.

Head coaching record

, - , style="text-align:left;", Orlando , style="text-align:left;", , 82 , , 20 , , 62 , , , , style="text-align:center;", 5th in Southeast , , — , , — , , — , , — , style="text-align:center;", Missed playoffs , - , style="text-align:left;", Orlando , style="text-align:left;", , 82 , , 23 , , 59 , , , , style="text-align:center;", 5th in Southeast , , — , , — , , — , , — , style="text-align:center;", Missed playoffs , - , style="text-align:left;", Orlando , style="text-align:left;", , 52 , , 15 , , 37 , , , , style="text-align:center;", (fired) , , — , , — , , — , , — , style="text-align:center;", — , - , style="text-align:left;", Brooklyn , style="text-align:left;", , 10 , , 7 , , 3 , , , , style="text-align:center;", 4th in Atlantic , , 4 , , 0 , , 4 , , , style="text-align:center;", Lost in

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, - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 226 , , 65 , , 161 , , , , , , 4 , , 0 , , 4 , , , ,

Personal life

Vaughn married his college sweetheart, Laura in 2003. The couple have two sons together. He enjoys reading and writing poetry.

References

External links

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