Darrick Martin

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Darrick Martin
Personal information
Born (1971-03-06) March 6, 1971 (age 53)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Listed height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High schoolSt. Anthony
(Long Beach, California)
CollegeUCLA (1988–1992)
NBA draft1992: undrafted
Playing career1994–2009
PositionPoint guard
Number15, 5, 2
Coaching career2016–2018
Career history
As player:
1994–1995Sioux Falls Skyforce
1995Minnesota Timberwolves
1995–1996Vancouver Grizzlies
1996Minnesota Timberwolves
19961999Los Angeles Clippers
19992001Sacramento Kings
2001Dallas Mavericks
2002Avtodor Saratov
2002–2003Yakima Sun Kings
2003Harlem Globetrotters
2003–2004Sioux Falls Skyforce
2004Minnesota Timberwolves
2005Los Angeles Clippers
20052008Toronto Raptors
2009Los Angeles Lightning
As coach:
2016–2018Reno Bighorns
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points3,525 (6.9 ppg)
Rebounds588 (1.1 rpg)
Assists1,475 (2.9 apg)
Stats Edit this at Wikidata at NBA.com
Stats Edit this at Wikidata at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals
Men’s basketball
Representing  United States
FIBA Americas U18 Championship
Gold medal – first place 1990 Montevideo Team competition

Darrick David Martin (born March 6, 1971) is an American basketball coach, most recently head coach for the Reno Bighorns of the NBA G League. He played basketball for more than a decade, shuttling between the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), where he won the 2003 CBA Playoffs MVP, and the NBA. In 2003, he even played for the Harlem Globetrotters. He then went on to play for the Los Angeles Lightning of the Independent Basketball Association (IBL). He was named the head coach of Reno in June 2016.

High school honors and collegiate history[edit]

As a senior at St. Anthony High School, Martin was a Parade First-Team All-American and named to the McDonald's High School All-American[1] team.

Martin received a full scholarship from UCLA and played on a Bruins squad with future NBA players Don MacLean, Tracy Murray and Mitchell Butler. As a quick point guard, he completed his college career at UCLA in 1992 ranked second in school history in both assists (636) and steals (179) behind Jerome "Pooh" Richardson. His career assists total placed him fourth on the Pacific-10 Conference's all-time list. Darrick averaged 9.3 points and 4.9 assists in his four years at UCLA. As a junior, he averaged a career-high 11.6 points and 6.8 assists, and his assists average was the best in the Pac-10 and the 16th highest in the country. His single-season high of 217 assists was second all-time at UCLA to Jerome "Pooh" Richardson's 236.

Professional career[edit]

Pre-NBA career[edit]

The 5'11" point guard was not drafted by an NBA franchise and instead played for the CBA's Sioux Falls Skyforce, (where he was the league's 10th leading scorer with 21 points per game). He was selected to the CBA All-League Second Team in 1995.[2] He signed two consecutive 10-day contracts with the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves in February 1995. He returned to the Timberwolves for the 2003–04 NBA season as a backup for Sam Cassell after Troy Hudson was injured.

Vancouver Grizzlies[edit]

At the beginning of the 1995–96 NBA season he signed with the Vancouver Grizzlies as a free agent, but the Grizzlies traded him back to the Timberwolves two months later, in exchange for a second-round draft pick. His scoring average in these first two seasons remained at about seven points per game.

Los Angeles Clippers[edit]

Martin signed with the Los Angeles Clippers in 1996 and remained with them for three seasons, averaging ten points per game in (and playing all 82 games of) the first two of them.

He returned to the Clippers in the 2004–05 season and averaged 3.8 PPG.

Sacramento Kings[edit]

Martin's contract expired once again after the lockout-shortened 1999 season, and he signed with Sacramento Kings where he would spend the next two years. Late in the Kings' 130–109 win over the Dallas Mavericks on March 6, 2000, Martin came off the bench to score 11 points in only two minutes. He was given the nickname "The Domino" by his teammates.

Toronto Raptors[edit]

Martin signed with the Toronto Raptors for the 2005–06 season. In his first year with the club he posted 2.6 ppg and 1.4 apg in 8.5 mpg of play. Martin's primary role with the Raptors, according to head coach Sam Mitchell, was to provide guidance to the younger players on the team such as point guards T. J. Ford and José Calderón. Darrick's most notable moment in a Raptors uniform was a 3-pointer against the Dallas Mavericks on November 29, 2006. With over a second remaining in regulation, and the Raptors trailing by 22 points, Martin hoisted up a 3-point shot uncontested and successfully sunk the shot. With the Raptors NBA record consecutive game streak with a 3-pointer on the verge of ending, Martin's shot enabled the Raptors to extend the streak which ended January 24, 2011. After two and a half seasons with Toronto, Martin was waived on March 27, 2008, to open up a spot on the roster for Linton Johnson. Though waived by the Raptors, Martin stayed with the team as an informal assistant coach/consultant.

NBA career statistics[edit]

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
 *  Led the league

Regular season[edit]

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1994–95 Minnesota 34 9 23.6 .408 .184 .877 1.9 3.9 1.0 .0 7.5
1995–96 Vancouver 24 0 16.8 .450 .227 .826 1.6 2.5 1.1 .0 6.7
1995–96 Minnesota 35 16 21.3 .381 .319 .851 1.3 4.5 .7 .1 7.3
1996–97 L.A. Clippers 82 64 22.2 .407 .389 .872 1.4 4.1 .7 .0 10.9
1997–98 L.A. Clippers 82* 63 28.0 .377 .365 .848 2.0 4.0 1.0 .1 10.3
1998–99 L.A. Clippers 37 25 25.4 .367 .292 .803 1.3 3.9 1.2 .1 8.0
1999–00 Sacramento 71 1 12.6 .380 .306 .824 .6 1.7 .4 .0 5.7
2000–01 Sacramento 31 0 5.6 .382 .519 .886 .5 .5 .2 .0 3.3
2001–02 Dallas 3 0 7.5 .000 .000 .500 .3 1.0 .7 .0 .3
2003–04 Minnesota 16 0 10.7 .299 .231 1.000 .4 1.4 .1 .1 3.4
2004–05 L.A. Clippers 11 0 17.3 .320 .278 .625 .9 2.5 .5 .0 3.8
2005–06 Toronto 40 0 8.5 .351 .400 .750 .5 1.4 .4 .0 2.6
2006–07 Toronto 31 0 7.1 .351 .351 .714 .4 1.4 .1 .0 3.0
2007–08 Toronto 17 0 8.3 .233 .125 .833 .4 1.2 .4 .0 1.6
Career 514 178 17.8 .382 .340 .843 1.1 2.9 .7 .0 6.9

Playoffs[edit]

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1997 L.A. Clippers 3 3 25.7 .440 .556 .667 .7 4.3 .0 .0 11.0
2000 Sacramento 2 0 10.5 .333 .333 .750 1.5 1.0 .5 .0 5.0
2001 Sacramento 2 0 4.5 .000 .000 .0 1.5 .0 .0 .0
2004 Minnesota 16 3 11.4 .275 .300 .800 .9 1.4 .3 .0 3.1
2007 Toronto 2 0 4.1 .000 .000 1.000 .5 1.0 .0 .0 1.0
Career 25 6 11.9 .301 .333 .771 .8 1.7 .2 .0 3.8

Later work[edit]

In November 2009, Martin returned to his first NBA team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, as the assistant director of player development.

In 2012, Martin was named an assistant coach of the St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team, working under head coach Steve Lavin.

On October 27, 2015 it was announced that he had been hired as the radio analyst for the UCLA Bruins on the UCLA Bruins IMG Sports network, replacing Tracy Murray.[3]

On June 22, 2016, Martin was named the head coach of the Reno Bighorns of the NBA Development League.[4] When the team relocated to become the Stockton Kings, he was not retained.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Boy's Alumni" (PDF). mcdonaldsallamerican.com. McDonald's. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 7, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  2. ^ "Darrick Martin minor league basketball statistics". Stats Crew. Retrieved June 26, 2021.
  3. ^ "Darrick Martin Hired as Radio Analyst".
  4. ^ "Reno Bighorns name Darrick Martin head coach". Reno Gazette-Journal. June 22, 2016. Archived from the original on June 25, 2016.

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