Derrick Allen Mahorn (born September 21, 1958) is an American former professional
basketball
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player who played
power forward
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and
center
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for the
Washington Bullets
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,
Detroit Pistons
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,
Philadelphia 76ers
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, and the
New Jersey Nets
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of the
National Basketball Association
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(NBA). He is currently a
radio analyst for the
Detroit Pistons
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,
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/ref> works as a co-host/analyst on SiriusXM NBA Radio
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, and during the summer is the head coach
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of the Aliens
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of the BIG3
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.
Mahorn had a reputation for physical play, and was a member of the late 1980s Detroit Pistons
The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division and play their home games at Li ...
teams known as "The Bad Boys", and with them won the 1989 NBA Championship
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.
After his playing career, Mahorn would go on to be an assistant coach under Pistons teammate and head coach Bill Laimbeer with the Detroit Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association
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(WNBA) and was part of two WNBA Championship
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teams (2006, 2008). He would eventually become head coach of the Shock, and later became head coach of Trilogy
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of the BIG3
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, leading the team to the inaugural BIG3 Championship in 2017, making Mahorn the only one in history to have won a championship in the NBA, WNBA, and BIG3.
College career
Mahorn played college basketball
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at Hampton University
Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association af ...
. He was a three-time NAIA All-American and owned 18 school records. He scored 2,418 points while playing for the Pirates, averaging 20.3 points per game.
Playing career
The turning point of Mahorn's career was perhaps when he was traded by the Washington Bullets to the Detroit Pistons
The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division and play their home games at Li ...
. He was unhappy with the trade initially and, as he claimed in a 2014 ESPN documentary, showed up to training camp overweight and out of shape. After teammate Bill Laimbeer took him aside and spoke with him about what he was brought there for, Mahorn acquiesced and became an integral part of the Pistons’ core. In 1989, Mahorn - dubbed by Piston announcer George Blaha
George Blaha (born March 26, 1945) is an American broadcaster. He has been the radio and television play-by-play voice of the Detroit Pistons since the 1976–77 NBA season. He currently is the lead play-by-play man on Bally Sports Detroit, bu ...
the "Baddest Bad Boy of them all" - won his only NBA championship
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with the Pistons.
Two days after the Pistons won the championship in 1989, the NBA held an expansion draft
An expansion draft, in professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to create one or more new expansion teams or franchises. This occurs mainly in North American sports. One of the ways of stocking the new team or teams is an expansio ...
for its two newest franchises, the Orlando Magic and Minnesota Timberwolves
The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis. The Timberwolves compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division. Founded in 19 ...
. League rules dictated that only eight players on each roster could be protected from being drafted by either team, and the Pistons elected not to extend that protection to Mahorn. As such, he was made the second pick in the expansion draft and the first to be taken by the Timberwolves; the Pistons were conducting their victory celebration in Detroit while the draft was happening and Mahorn was taken aside during the festivities so he could be told. Pistons general manager
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Jack McCloskey
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tried to reacquire Mahorn to no avail, and years later Mahorn was shown to still be bothered by what transpired as the story of the trade brought him to tears during the 2014 ESPN film about the team.
Mahorn, as it turned out, would never play for Minnesota. After refusing to report to the Timberwolves, he ended up being traded instead to the Philadelphia 76ers
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, where he teamed with superstar Charles Barkley
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(despite previous rivalries with him) to form the top-rebounding duo of "Thump N' Bump." After two seasons, Mahorn moved to the Italian Serie A
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for the 1991–92 season.
Mahorn later played for the New Jersey Nets
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for four seasons, before returning to the Pistons in 1996–97 under coach Doug Collins. He retired after the 1999 season, after a second stint with the 76ers.
Coaching
WNBA
Mahorn then served as a color commentator for Pistons radio broadcasts, and as an assistant coach under former teammate Bill Laimbeer with the WNBA's Detroit Shock. Laimbeer and Mahorn led the Shock to two WNBA titles (2006, 2008).
On July 22, 2008, at a Sparks-Shock game, Mahorn attempted to break up a brawl. When attempting to restrain Lisa Leslie
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, he put his left hand out and Leslie fell to the ground. Mahorn was suspended for two games.
On June 15, 2009, he became the head coach of the Shock, a position he held until the franchise moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma
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after the season. Shortly afterward, Mahorn continued his work with Pistons radio, doing color commentary alongside Mark Champion
Mark Champion (born August 8, 1950) is an American radio sportscaster who is the current primary radio play-by-play voice of the Detroit Pistons, a position he has served in since 2001. When the Pistons are on national television, however, George ...
.
BIG3
In 2017, Mahorn became head coach of Trilogy
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, the eventual champion of the BIG3
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basketball league's inaugural season. His team's players included Al Harrington
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and Kenyon Martin.
NBA career statistics
Regular season
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Playoffs
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, style="text-align:left;", 1991
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, style="text-align:left;", 1993
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, style="text-align:left;", 1997
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, style="text-align:left;", 1999
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Personal life
Mahorn played himself in a 2017 episode of Detroiters titled "Quick Rick Mahorn of Dearborn."
Awards and honors
*1989 NBA Champion (as a player with the Detroit Pistons
The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division and play their home games at Li ...
)
*Two-time WNBA Champion (2006, 2008 - as an assistant coach with the Detroit Shock)
*2017 BIG3
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Champion (as head coach of Trilogy
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(class of 2018)
References
External links
WNBA.com profile
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1958 births
Living people
African-American basketball coaches
African-American basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from Connecticut
Basketball players from Hartford, Connecticut
Big3 coaches
Continental Basketball Association coaches
Detroit Pistons announcers
Detroit Pistons players
Detroit Shock coaches
Detroit Shock head coaches
Hampton Pirates men's basketball players
Minnesota Timberwolves expansion draft picks
New Jersey Nets players
Pallacanestro Virtus Roma players
Philadelphia 76ers players
Power forwards (basketball)
Sportspeople from Hartford, Connecticut
Washington Bullets draft picks
Washington Bullets players
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople