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Hersey Hawkins
Personal information
Born (1966-09-29) September 29, 1966 (age 58)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
High school Westinghouse (Chicago, Illinois)
Listed height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight 200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
College Bradley (1984–1988)
NBA Draft 1988 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6th overall
Selected by the Los Angeles Clippers
Pro career 1988–2001
Career history
1988–1993 Philadelphia 76ers
1993–1995 Charlotte Hornets
1995–1999 Seattle SuperSonics
1999–2000 Chicago Bulls
2000–2001 Charlotte Hornets
Career highlights and awards
  • NBA All-Star (1991)
  • NBA All-Rookie First Team (1989)
  • NBA Sportsmanship Award (1999)
  • National college player of the year (1988)
  • Consensus first-team All-American (1988)
  • NCAA scoring champion (1988)
  • 2× MVC Player of the Year (1987, 1988)
  • 3× First-team All-MVC (1986–1988)
  • MVC tournament MVP (1988)
  • No. 33 retired by Bradley Braves
Career NBA statistics
Points 14,470 (14.7 ppg)
Rebounds 3,554 (3.6 rpg)
Steals 1,622 (1.7 spg)
Medals
Men's Basketball
Representing United States United States
Summer Olympics
Bronze 1988 Seoul Team competition

Hersey R. Hawkins Jr. (born September 29, 1966) is an American former professional basketball player. After starring at George Westinghouse College Prep, the 6'3" (1.90 m) shooting guard attended Bradley University. Hawkins played for 4 teams throughout his 12-year National Basketball Association career. Hersey was given his nickname, “The Big Kiss”, by David Gborie.

College

Hersey spent four seasons as the starting shooting guard at Bradley University, starting all 125 games the Braves played and finishing with 3,008 points. At the time of his graduation in 1988, he was the fourth-leading scorer in NCAA Division I history and is currently 10th. In 1986–87, he finished fifth in NCAA Division I in scoring with 27.2 points per game, following that season with a historic campaign, averaging 36.3 points per game in 1987–88. Before being drafted into the NBA, he was a member of the last collegiate USA men's national basketball team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul coached by John Thompson. They disappointingly finished with the bronze medal after losing to the all-professional Soviet Union in the semifinals as Hawkins was injured, depriving the U.S. team of his outside shooting and overall scoring ability.

Career in the NBA

Philadelphia 76ers

He was then drafted 6th overall by the Los Angeles Clippers in first round of the 1988 NBA draft, but his rights were immediately traded to the Philadelphia 76ers for the draft rights to former 1988 Olympic teammate Charles Smith. On the 76ers, "Hawk" was the second scoring option after Charles Barkley. Hawkins earned NBA All-Rookie First Team Honors in 1989. In 1991, he averaged 22.1 points and appeared in the NBA All-Star Game. In a game against the Boston Celtics, he had 9 steals. He also scored a career-high 43 points in a game against the Orlando Magic.

Charlotte Hornets

In 1993, Hawkins was traded to the Charlotte Hornets for Dana Barros, Sidney Green and draft picks. In 1994, he grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds against the Houston Rockets. Hawkins wore #32 with the Hornets during the 1993–94 season since Alonzo Mourning wore #33. Next season, he would change his jersey number to #3.

Seattle SuperSonics

After two productive seasons in Charlotte, Hawkins and David Wingate were traded to the Seattle SuperSonics for Kendall Gill. In 1996, he played a key role, complementing Gary Payton, Detlef Schrempf and Shawn Kemp on a Sonics team that made it to the NBA Finals but lost 2–4 to his hometown team, the Chicago Bulls. He won the NBA Sportsmanship Award in his final season in Seattle.

Chicago Bulls

On August 12, 1999, Hawkins was traded along with James Cotton to the Bulls for Brent Barry, but his one-year tenure in Chicago was marred by injury, and he only averaged 7.9 points per game in 61 games.

Return to Charlotte

He returned to Charlotte as a free agent in 2000 for his final season, and he retired in 2001 with 14,470 career points.

NBA career statistics

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

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1988–89 Philadelphia 79 79 32.6 .455 .428 .831 2.8 3.0 1.5 0.5 15.1
1989–90 Philadelphia 82 82 34.8 .460 .420 .888 3.7 3.2 1.6 0.3 18.5
1990–91 Philadelphia 80 80 38.9 .472 .400 .871 3.9 3.7 2.2 0.5 22.1
1991–92 Philadelphia 81 81 37.2 .462 .397 .874 3.3 3.1 1.9 0.5 19.0
1992–93 Philadelphia 81 81 36.8 .470 .397 .860 4.3 3.9 1.7 0.4 20.3
1993–94 Charlotte 82 82 32.3 .460 .332 .862 4.6 2.6 1.6 0.3 14.4
1994–95 Charlotte 82* 82* 33.3 .482 .440 .867 3.8 3.2 1.5 0.2 14.3
1995–96 Seattle 82 82* 34.4 .473 .384 .874 3.6 2.7 1.8 0.2 15.6
1996–97 Seattle 82 82* 33.6 .464 .403 .875 3.9 3.0 1.9 0.1 13.9
1997–98 Seattle 82* 82* 31.7 .440 .415 .868 4.1 2.7 1.8 0.2 10.5
1998–99 Seattle 50* 34 32.9 .419 .306 .902 4.0 2.5 1.6 0.4 10.3
1999–00 Chicago 61 49 26.6 .424 .390 .899 2.9 2.2 1.2 0.2 7.9
2000–01 Charlotte 59 0 11.5 .409 .370 .857 1.4 1.2 0.6 0.2 3.1
Career 983 896 32.6 .461 .394 .870 3.6 2.9 1.7 0.3 14.7
All-Star 1 0 14.0 .600 .000 – 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 6.0

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1989 Philadelphia 3 3 24.0 .125 .000 1.000 1.7 1.3 1.0 0.3 2.7
1990 Philadelphia 10 10 41.5 .497 .389 .937 3.1 3.6 1.2 0.7 23.5
1991 Philadelphia 8 8 41.1 .465 .538 .937 5.8 3.4 2.5 1.3 20.9
1995 Charlotte 4 4 32.5 .406 .308 .882 5.3 2.0 1.5 0.5 11.3
1996 Seattle 21 21 34.0 .452 .344 .895 3.0 2.2 1.3 0.2 12.3
1997 Seattle 12 12 40.3 .470 .458 .914 4.5 2.8 2.5 0.3 15.3
1998 Seattle 10 10 33.7 .466 .395 .875 5.7 3.6 1.8 0.1 13.4
2001 Charlotte 6 0 8.3 .375 .250 .714 1.5 0.7 0.5 0.0 2.0
Career 74 68 34.2 .455 .396 .907 3.9 2.6 1.6 0.4 14.1

Post-playing career

Hawkins was named as an assistant by head coach Ty Amundsen for the 2006–2007 season at Estrella Foothills High School varsity basketball in Goodyear, Arizona. He also came to the Hoopfest in 2009. He is currently the Player Development Director for the Portland Trail Blazers.

Hawkins is married with three sons. His son Corey, who holds the Arizona high school record for most points in a career, now plays for the Idaho Stampede of the NBA Development League. He played for Arizona State from 2010 to 2011 and UC Davis from 2012 to 2015. His son Brandon played college basketball at University of the Pacific before finishing his career at Portland State. His son Devon played basketball at West Linn High School in Oregon and Clark College in Washington. Former NFL offensive lineman Flozell Adams is Hersey's cousin.

See also

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  • List of National Basketball Association career steals leaders
  • List of National Basketball Association career free throw percentage leaders
  • List of National Basketball Association single-game steals leaders
  • List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 60 or more points in a game
  • List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career scoring leaders
  • List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season scoring leaders
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