1. Kenneth Clay Gattison was born on May 23,1964 and is an American former professional basketball player and National Basketball Association assistant coach.
19 Facts About Kenny Gattison
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Kenny Gattison attended New Hanover High School, where he competed against Jordan, and defeated his team in the high school state championship.
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Kenny Gattison went to college at Old Dominion University, where he was a two-time honorable mention All-American.
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Kenny Gattison is the Sun Belt Conference's all-time rebound leader with 963 recoveries, and ranks fourth all-time at ODU.
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Kenny Gattison performed 34 double-doubles and had 87 double figure games.
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Kenny Gattison competed in the 1983 National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs for the East Squad.
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Kenny Gattison was selected to the US Junior World Cup team in 1983.
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Kenny Gattison averaged 16.1 points per game for ODU in 1985 and 17.4 points per game in 1986.
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Kenny Gattison helped lead ODU to two straight NCAA tournament bids and in his senior year of 1986, the eighth seeded Monarchs defeated West Virginia for ODU's first ever NCAA Division I Tournament win.
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Kenny Gattison was named honorable mention All-American by the Associated Press in 1985 and 1986.
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Kenny Gattison was named the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year in 1986, and was later named to the Sun Belt Conference's All-Decade team.
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Kenny Gattison graduated from Old Dominion with a degree in distributive education, specializing in personnel management.
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In 2004 New Hanover High School named the basketball court in his name and on Feb 8,2013 Kenny Gattison was inducted into the Greater Wilmington Area Sports Hall of Fame.
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Kenny Gattison was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 3rd round of the 1986 NBA draft.
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Kenny Gattison played for the Phoenix Suns, Charlotte Hornets and Vancouver Grizzlies.
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Kenny Gattison then returned to his alma mater, Old Dominion in 2001 as an assistant coach until 2003 when he was named assistant coach with his former team, the New Orleans Hornets.
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On July 28,2010, Kenny Gattison was named an assistant coach to the Atlanta Hawks under head coach Larry Drew.
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On June 25,2013, Kenny Gattison was named an assistant coach to the Phoenix Suns under former teammate and current head coach Jeff Hornacek.
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On September 28,2016, Kenny Gattison was named Vice President of membership and Player Programming for the National Basketball Retired Players Association, the official alumni organization for former players from the NBA, ABA, WNBA and Harlem Globetrotters.