Stacey Orlando Augmon is a retired American professional basketball player, formerly in the National Basketball Association.
Education
Augmon played college basketball for four years at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and won the 1990 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship with them. Augmon was the first three-time winner of the NABC Defensive Player of the Year, winning the award in 1989, 1990, and 1991. He is a class of 2002 member of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Athletic Hall of Fame along with teammates Greg Anthony and Larry Johnson.
Career
He gained the nickname "Plastic Manitoba" due to his athletic ability to "stretch". He is currently an assistant coach at his alma mater University of Nevada, Las Vegas under Dave Rice. Augmon was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks with the ninth pick of the 1991 National Basketball Association Draft.
Upon Augmon being chosen, Bill Walton famously said "Russell begat Kareem, Kareem begat Magic, and so Magic has begat the Plastic Manitoba" He was the first player in the top ten draft picks to work out a deal, a 5-year contract worth between 6.5 and 7 million dollars.
Augmon has played for the Hawks, the Detroit Pistons, the Portland Trail Blazers, the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets, and the Magic. He holds a scoring average of 8.0 points per game throughout his career.
The Magic decided not to re-sign Augmon for the 2006-2007 National Basketball Association season, making him an unrestricted free agent. On October 3, 2007, the Denver Nuggets announced the signing of the 15-year veteran, but he was later waived on the 24th.
One month and three days later, Denver re-hired Augmon, this time as a player development coach.
Post-playing Augmon is based from Los Angeles County and a president of a bike club In May 2011, he left the Denver Nuggets to join the staff of former Rebels teammate Dave Rice as an assistant coach for University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
During the 2004-2005 season, Augmon was investigated by the league for two incidents. He had already refused to speak to the media, which violated league rules.
The first was following a game March 11, 2005.
Greg Sandoval from The Washington Post wrote, "As reporters gathered around the locker of Magic guard Jameer Nelson, a female reporter for a local television station kneeled down to give cameramen a clear shot and to place a microphone near Nelson, who was sitting. Augmon, whose locker is near Nelson"s, made a comment about the woman being on her knees in front of a player that involved a reference to oral sex, a witness told the newspaper."
Two nights later on March 13, Sandoval continues, "Augmon became angered over a question that an Orlando Sentinel reporter asked Magic guard Steve Francis.
"That"s a stupid question," Augmon allegedly said, according to several reports. When a male Florida Today reporter told Augmon that they were interviewing Francis and not him, Augmon shouted obscenities and began moving toward the reporter.
A Magic employee stepped in front of Augmon, who then threw a bottle of lotion at the reporter.
The bottle did not strike the reporter but some of its contents splashed his clothes.".
Views
Quotations:
"Russell begat Kareem, Kareem begat Magic, and so Magic has begat the Plastic Manitoba". "That"s a stupid question,".
Membership
He is a class of 2002 member of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Athletic Hall of Fame along with teammates Greg Anthony and Larry Johnson.