Rasheed Abdul Wallace was born on September 17,1974 and is an American basketball coach and former professional player.
51 Facts About Rasheed Wallace
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Originally selected by the Washington Bullets as the fourth pick in the 1995 NBA draft, Rasheed Wallace was named to the All-Rookie second team following his first season.
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Rasheed Wallace was then traded to the Portland Trail Blazers after the season.
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Rasheed Wallace averaged a career best 19.4 points per game in 2002 for the Trail Blazers.
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Individually, Rasheed Wallace was an NBA All-Star in 2006 and 2008.
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Rasheed Wallace returned to sign a one-year deal to play for the New York Knicks in 2012.
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Rasheed Wallace was born and raised as the youngest of three sons of a single-mother household in the neighborhood of Germantown, Philadelphia.
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Rasheed Wallace's mother worked in the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare; Wallace, his mother, and his brothers Malcolm and Muhammed lived in Germantown.
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Rasheed Wallace began his basketball career while attending Simon Gratz High School.
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Rasheed Wallace was named USA Today's High School Player of the Year after his senior season and was selected first-team All America by Basketball Times.
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Rasheed Wallace played in the Roundball Classic, scoring 30 points in a losing effort.
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Rasheed Wallace has indicated that this North Carolina bond with Brown helped him adjust quickly to the Pistons system.
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Rasheed Wallace was named a second-team All-American by the AP his second year at UNC.
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Rasheed Wallace left North Carolina to enter the 1995 NBA draft after his sophomore season, being selected with the fourth pick overall by the Washington Bullets.
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Rasheed Wallace was selected to the rookie team for the All-Star Weekend.
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En route to being named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team, Rasheed Wallace averaged 10.1 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 3.4 assists.
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In total, Rasheed Wallace scored 655 points and played 1,788 minutes during his rookie season in Washington.
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Meanwhile, Rasheed Wallace ranked third in the league in field goal percentage.
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However, just as his season was gaining momentum, Rasheed Wallace again broke his left thumb and was forced to miss the next month of the season, but he returned in time for a strong performance in the first round playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers, which the Trail Blazers lost.
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Rasheed Wallace began extending himself into the community more than ever, most notably with his Rasheed Wallace Foundation, but his career suffered from numerous missteps on and off the court.
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Rasheed Wallace set an NBA record with 38 technical fouls for the season.
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Rasheed Wallace was suspended by the NBA for seven games for threatening then-referee Tim Donaghy on an arena loading dock after a home game in 2003.
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Rasheed Wallace was far from the only perceived trouble maker on Portland at the time, his teammates, Bonzi Wells, Damon Stoudamire, and Zach Randolph for instance, were frequently criticized by media and fans for off-court outbursts and legal incidents, leading to the team often being referred to as The Jail Blazers.
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Rasheed Wallace was named an NBA All-Star in 2000 and 2001.
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Two years later, during the 2002 NBA Playoffs, despite Rasheed Wallace posting career high postseason averages of 25.3 points and 12.3 rebounds per game, Portland was again eliminated by the eventual champion Lakers.
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On February 9,2004, just before the 2004 NBA All-Star Game, Rasheed Wallace was traded to the Atlanta Hawks along with Wesley Person for Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Theo Ratliff and Dan Dickau.
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Rasheed Wallace had six rebounds, five blocks, two assists and a steal in a close loss on the road against the New Jersey Nets, though he did not score in the fourth quarter.
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Rasheed Wallace was again traded, in a deal that saw him go from the Hawks along with guard Mike James from the Celtics to the Detroit Pistons.
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Rasheed Wallace helped the Pistons win an unexpected NBA title, beating the heavily favored Lakers four games to one.
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On March 26,2007, in a game against the Denver Nuggets, Rasheed Wallace threw up a 60-foot shot off a stolen inbound pass with 1.5 seconds remaining and banked it in from just behind halfcourt to force overtime letting out a huge roar from what was left of the Palace crowd.
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On June 2,2007, Rasheed Wallace fouled out of Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals after committing a foul on LeBron James and then received two technical fouls, resulting in an automatic ejection, for arguing with a referee.
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On February 10,2008, it was announced that Rasheed Wallace would be replacing Boston Celtics' injured forward Kevin Garnett in the 2008 NBA All-Star Game in New Orleans.
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Rasheed Wallace signed a three-year contract with the Boston Celtics on July 8,2009.
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In Game 6 of the Finals, the Celtics' starting center Kendrick Perkins injured his right knee, so Rasheed Wallace started Game 7.
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Rasheed Wallace scored 11 points and was 5 of 11 from the field in the loss.
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On October 3,2012, Rasheed Wallace came out of retirement, and signed with the New York Knicks.
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On February 27,2013, Rasheed Wallace announced that he had a broken left foot and was expected to miss eight weeks.
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Rasheed Wallace returned for a final game on April 15,2013, playing three minutes off the bench.
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In July 2013, Rasheed Wallace joined the Detroit Pistons staff as an assistant coach after signing a two-year contract with the team.
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On March 8,2019, Wallace was introduced as the new boys varsity basketball head coach at Charles E Jordan High School in Durham, North Carolina.
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Rasheed Wallace joined his former head coach in Detroit and Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown on the Tigers.
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Rasheed Wallace was known for his intensity and expressive personality, resulting in frequent confrontations with opponents and officials but moments of humor.
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Rasheed Wallace holds the league records for most technical fouls in a season, and most ejections in a season.
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Rasheed Wallace popularized the phrase "Ball don't lie", used when a player on the opposing team misses a free throw after a disputed call by the referees.
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Rasheed Wallace nevertheless continued to wear his Flyers gear in public.
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Rasheed Wallace has three children with his former wife Fatima Sanders.
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Rasheed Wallace's nephew, Quadir Welton, is a professional basketball player.
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Rasheed Wallace has been one of the biggest voices and helping hands in the Flint water crisis.
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Rasheed Wallace personally delivered water door to door in Flint since the summer of 2016; he wrote a letter in the Players Tribune to raise awareness.
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Rasheed Wallace appeared on the television show Area 21 to talk about the Crisis.
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Rasheed Wallace's efforts inspired Stephen Jackson, Rachel Nichols, Kyle Kuzma, and other celebrities to help in Flint.