Stephen M. Thompson Sr. (born December 2, 1968) is an American

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coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach at

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. Born in

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, Thompson attended

Crenshaw High School Crenshaw High School is a four-year public secondary school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, located on 11th Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The school first opened in 1968 and currently enrolls aroun ...

and then

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, where he was named the Big East's Scholar Athlete of the Year. He played briefly in the

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during the 1991-92 season for the

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(23 games) and

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(one game). He was selected to the Syracuse Men's Basketball All-Century Team in 2000. Thompson was appointed head coach of the

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men's basketball team for the 2005-06 season after working as an assistant since 2002. He joined the coaching staff of the

men's basketball program in 2014 as an assistant coach.
In 2022, Thompson became the new assistant Athletic Director- Player Development.

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External links

NBA statistics
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