Sidney Rochell Lowe (born January 21, 1960) is an American former

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player and coach. He is currently an assistant coach for the

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of the

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(NBA). Lowe played

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and served as the

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(NC State).

Biography

Lowe began his career at

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. He played collegiate basketball at

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. He was the

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for the Wolfpack's 1983 NCAA National Championship. Lowe was selected by the

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with the 1st pick of the second round in the 1983 NBA Draft. He played a total of four seasons in the NBA, for five different teams. After retiring from basketball in 1991, Lowe took a job as an assistant coach with the

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. Halfway through the 1992–93 season he took over as head coach of the struggling Timberwolves and remained in that position until the end of the 1993–94 season. From 1994 to 1999, Lowe served as an assistant coach to

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with the

. Lowe returned to the Timberwolves organization in 1999 for one season as assistant coach. The

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became Lowe's second stint as a head coach when he assumed the role for the

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. He was the fifth head coach in the team's short history and led them to a franchise-best record of 23–59 in his first season and again the following season in 2001–02, when the Grizzlies relocated to

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. Sidney Lowe resigned from his coaching duties early in the 2002–03 season after starting 0–8, leaving his head coaching record at 79 wins against 228 losses (.257 winning percentage). In 2003, he returned to

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once again to take an assistant position under then head coach

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. Lowe followed Saunders to the

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in 2005 and remained an assistant coach there through the 2006 season. To become eligible for employment as an NCAA head coach, he completed the final nine hours of his

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degree online via St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville,

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. On May 6, 2006, Lowe was named the new head basketball coach of

, replacing

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. Lowe was the first African American named head coach of the Wolfpack. One of Lowe's trademarks as a coach was a red

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he wore to significant games in honor of his former NC State coach, Jim Valvano. In his first season at the helm of the NC State program, Lowe became just the third Wolfpack coach, after

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and

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, to win 20 games and defeat the other three North Carolina institutions in the

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(

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and Wake Forest). He is one of only four NC State coaches to have coached in the ACC Championship game in their first year. In spite of the early success, Lowe failed to lead NC State to the NCAA tournament, and his teams only made two appearances in the NIT. He had an overall winning record (86–78) after five years but only a 25–55 conference record. Lowe resigned as head coach of NC State, accepting a buyout of the last two years of his contract, on March 15, 2011. Later that year, he joined the

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as an assistant. At the beginning of the 2014–15 season, Lowe rejoined the Minnesota Timberwolves as an assistant for the next two years, being fired at the end of the 2015–16 season. On July 5, 2016, the Washington Wizards announced that Lowe had been hired as an assistant coach. Lowe was hired by the Detroit Pistons beginning the 2018–19 season.

Personal life

In 1984, Lowe married Melonie Moultry in

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. He had 20 groomsmen including

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and

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NBA playing career

Regular season

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Head coaching record

NBA

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College

References

External links

Coaching statistics
at Basketball-Reference.com
SidneyLowe.com: Sidney Lowe
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