Career
He was the father of former National Basketball Association player and current college coach Danny Manning. He played college basketball for the Jackson State University Tigers from 1963 to 1967 and scored 1,610 career points. Manning was inducted into the Jackson State University Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.
He was drafted in the eighth round (80th overall) of the 1967 National Basketball Association draft by the Baltimore Bullets.
In four National Basketball Association seasons with the Bullets, Chicago Bulls and Portland Trail Blazers, Manning averaged 5.1 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. He then played five seasons in the American Bar Association—three with the Carolina Cougars and one each with the New York Americans and Indiana Pacers—averaging 6.6 points and 4.5 rebounds per game.
He later played for several professional European teams. Manning followed Brown to San Antonio in 1988 to serve as an assistant coach for the Spurs, where Brown had been hired as the team"s head coach.
Manning later served as a scout for the Spurs.
He died from a heart condition at age 67 in Fort Worth, Texas.
