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Tony Arnel Massenburg (born July 31, 1967) is an American former professional
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player. He shares a
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(NBA) record with
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, Joe Smith & Jim Jackson for having played with twelve different teams over his career, which has since been broken by
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.


College career

Massenburg played in college for the
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from 1986 to 1990, playing under three different head coaches:
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, Bob Wade, and
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. He had a career field goal shooting percentage of 52.3% and averaged 12.1 points per game in his four-year career with the Terrapins. In his senior season, in which he was featured on the cover of the team's handbook on an aircraft carrier, he averaged 18 points and 10.1 rebounds per game. He was one of only two players in the
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to average double figures in both categories that season. His efforts in his senior season earned him a spot on the All-ACC Second Team.


Professional career


San Antonio Spurs (1990-1991)

Massenburg was selected with the 43rd pick in the second round of the 1990 NBA draft by the
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. During his first stint with the Spurs, he was able to play alongside NBA legend
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. He played in 35 games with the Spurs during the
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.


Pallacanestro Reggiana (1991)

As part of his first career NBA injury's rehabilitation program, Massenburg went to the
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in 1991, where he averaged almost 23 points and 10 rebounds per game in four games with the Italian club
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.


San Antonio Spurs (1991)

Massenburg returned to the NBA and his former team the Spurs, however he only played 1 game for the franchise as he was waived on November 2, 1991, in the beginning of the 1991-1992 season.


Charlotte Hornets (1991-1992)

On December 11, 1991, Massenburg signed with the
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where he played for three games before being waived again on January 7, 1992.


Boston Celtics (1992)

On January 10, 1992, Massenburg signed a 10-day contract with the
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for seven games.


Golden State Warriors (1992)

On February 13, 1992, he signed another 10-day contract with the
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for another seven games; ending his season with a total of 18 games and 90 minutes played with four franchises that season.


Unicaja-Mayoral (1992-1993)

Massenburg played in the Spanish League with Unicaja-Mayoral for the 1992–1993 season.


FC Barcelona (1993-1994)

He also played for another Spanish team
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during the 1993–94 season. He won both the Spanish King's Cup championship and the Catalan League championship with Barcelona in 1994.


Los Angeles Clippers (1994-1995)

Massenburg returned to the NBA again in the 1994 offseason when he was signed by the
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on June 27, 1994. Massenburg came just short of playing an entire NBA season for the first time in his career during the 1994–95 season for 80 games. Massenburg was taken in the NBA
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in 1995 by the
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. After 24 games there, he was shipped to the
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, where he played 30 games. During the 1996-97 season, Massenburg once again came very close to playing an entire NBA season, seeing action in 79 games with yet another team, the
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. Massenburg returned to Canada for the 1997–98 season, playing with the
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-coached
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. In Vancouver, Massenburg backed up center
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. He played two seasons in Vancouver before being traded before the 1999-2000 season to the
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. With the Rockets, he played in ten games, then was promptly returned to the Grizzlies before the 2000-2001 campaign. When the franchise relocated to
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in 2001, so did Massenburg. During the Grizzlies' first season on U.S. soil, Massenburg played in 73 games, averaging 5.5 points per game. In successive years, he was a member of the
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and the
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. Massenburg returned to the Spurs for the 2004-05 season and with them he won an NBA championship ring that year, when the Spurs defeated the
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four games to three in the 2005 NBA Finals. During the series Massenburg mainly observed from the bench as his teammates clinched the Spurs' third NBA title in seven years. Unfortunately however, six weeks after the finals ended, a late-night auto accident badly damaged Massenburg's ankle, leaving him unable to play the following two seasons.Massenburg, 40, waived by possible 13th team Wizards.
updated October 21, 2007.
After being out with the ankle injury for two seasons, Massenburg attempted an NBA comeback in the year 2007 with the
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, but he was waived by the team before the season started. He then signed with the Arecibo Captains, a Puerto Rican team, but was released shortly after. In his NBA career, Massenburg participated in 683 NBA games over 15 seasons. He scored 4,238 points in his career for a career average of 6.2 points per game. He collected 2,964 rebounds in his career for a career average of 4.3 rebounds per game. He had 266 assists in his career, for a career average 0.4 assists per game.


Later life

In 2010 Massenburg started a sports bar in the Kentlands area of
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with former NBA coach James Lloyd called Tony & James. It was later renamed 44 Sports Bar, which reflected Massenburg's jersey number. In December 2013, Tony Massenburg's jersey number was retired at Sussex Central High School (VA), along with that of Reginald Givens (a former NFL linebacker). These two men were the only two athletes from the school ever to play a sport professionally. Massenburg now contributes to CSN Mid-Atlantic's Washington Wizards coverage.


Works

* Tony Massenburg, Walt Williams, ''Lessons from Lenny: The Journey Beyond a Shooting Star'', Whyde Range Productions, 2018.


References


External links

*
NBA.com's Massenburg page
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