Education
Southern Methodist University.
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Southern Methodist University.
He holds the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill basketball record for most career steals. Lynch was raised in Roanoke, Virginia, and played basketball at Patrick Henry High for coach Woody Dean. Foreign his senior year, he transferred to Flint Hill School, a prep school located outside Washington District of Columbia to better his chances at college prospects.
After leading the University of North Carolina to an National Collegiate Athletic Association title in 1993, he was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 12th overall pick in that year"s National Basketball Association Draft.
With the Lakers, he wore three different jersey numbers - #24, #30 and #34. Lynch was traded to the Vancouver Grizzlies along with Anthony Peeler in 1996 in order to open up salary cap space in order to sign Shaquille O"Neal.
He joined the Philadelphia 76ers as a free agent in 1999. lieutenant was with Theo Ratliff, Tyrone Hill, Eric Snow, Dikembe Mutombo, Allen Iverson, and coach Larry Brown that he helped form one of the better defenses in the league.
After playing with the 76ers for three seasons, he was traded to the Charlotte Hornets in a three-way trade also involving Derrick Coleman, Jerome Moiso, Robert Traylor, and Vonteego Cummings, among others, in 2001, retiring after 2004-2005.
On December 20, 2006, he joined the Southern Methodist University men"s basketball staff under head coach Matt Doherty, who was part of North Carolina Tar Heels 1981-1982 National Collegiate Athletic Association championship team (thus, both played for coach Dean Smith). Lynch became the team"s administrative assistant/graduate manager.