Antoine Labotte Carr (born July 23, 1961) is an American retired

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player. Nicknamed "Big Dawg", he played power forward (and sometimes center) for six different teams in the

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across 16 seasons.

Early life

Antoine Carr was born in

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. and was a star basketball player at Wichita Heights High School (class of 1979). He accepted a scholarship to play locally at

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. A four-year player, Carr was a major contributor on a team that included future NBA players

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and Cliff Levingston, averaging 17 points per game while shooting over 55% during his college career. In his final college game, he scored a school-record 47 points against Southern Illinois on March 5, 1983. He played for the US national team in the 1982 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal.

Professional career

Coming off a senior season where he'd averaged 22.5 points and 7.6 rebounds a game in a strong college program, Carr was selected by the

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in the first round (eighth pick overall) of the 1983 NBA draft. Carr was unable to agree to a contract with the Pistons and played the 1983–84 season in Italy with Simac Milano after the club offered him a $200,000 contract for the year. Returning to the NBA in the 1984–85 season, he played six full seasons with the

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, who had acquired his rights, before moving to the

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in the middle of the 1989–90 campaign. While in Sacramento, Carr averaged 20 points per game and was one of the team's stars. He scored 1,551 points that season, his only time topping 1,000 points and by far his best scoring season. Carr also played for the

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, where he led the team in

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. He also played a notable first-round series in 1994 against the Utah Jazz. Carr was filling in for an injured

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, who had a fractured hand. Carr put on what could be considered the best games of his career, but the Spurs still lost the series 1–3. Carr was signed as a free agent by the

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on October 29, 1994, where he was a periodic starter at the

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position beside

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. When not starting, he settled in as his role as the energetic and jovial

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. Coach

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utilized Carr extensively during the two years that the Jazz reached the NBA finals – relying on his experience and ability to control the ball. Carr helped the Jazz to victory in Game 5 of the 1998 Finals against the

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with several clutch jump shots. Carr finished his career with the Houston Rockets and

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, playing 18 games with Houston and 21 with Vancouver in a reserve role. Carr scored 9,176 points in his NBA career. Carr had a strong ability to manage the ball down low, even as a small center. He was known for his power and dunking, and his ability to hit medium to long jump shots under pressure. He made 50% of his attempts from the floor and shot 78% from the free-throw line. After receiving an eye injury, Carr wore orange-tinted protective glasses for the rest of his NBA career. Following his final season with Vancouver, Carr played one season for the Kansas City Knights of the ABA, and one season with the Greek club Ionikos NF. His younger brother Henry Carr played for Wichita State, and was drafted in 1987 by the

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.1987 NBA Draft on Basketballreference.com

NBA career statistics

Regular season

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Playoffs

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1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, ...

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1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...

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1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

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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 ...

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References

External links

* at NBA.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carr, Antoine 1961 births Living people African-American basketball players All-American college men's basketball players American expatriate basketball people in Canada American expatriate basketball people in Greece American expatriate basketball people in Italy American men's basketball players Atlanta Hawks players Basketball players from Wichita, Kansas Basketball players from Oklahoma Centers (basketball) Detroit Pistons draft picks Houston Rockets players Ionikos N.F. B.C. players Kansas City Knights players McDonald's High School All-Americans Olimpia Milano players Power forwards (basketball) Sacramento Kings players San Antonio Spurs players Sportspeople from Oklahoma City United States men's national basketball team players Utah Jazz players Vancouver Grizzlies players Wichita State Shockers men's basketball players 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American sportspeople 1982 FIBA World Championship players