SCOT POLLARD
POLLARD, SCOT
Hometown: Kamiaken HS, Kennewick, WA and San Diego, CA
Born February 12, 1975
Scot's website: www.planetpollard.com
CATEGORY | TOTAL | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | |
YEAR | Fr. | So. | Jr. | Sr. | ||
POSITION | C/F | C | C | C | ||
HEIGHT | 6'10 | 6'10 | 6'10 | 6'11 | ||
WEIGHT | 240 | 250 | 250 | 265 | ||
JERSEY | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | ||
Games Played/Started | 128/62 | 35/0 | 31/3 | 34/33 | 28/26 | |
Minutes | 2754 | 597 | 620 | 835 | 702 | |
Per Game | 21.5 | 17.1 | 20.0 | 24.6 | 25.1 | |
Points | 1209 | 264 | 315 | 342 | 288 | |
Per Game | 9.4 | 7.5 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.3 | |
Rebounds | 850 | 173 | 192 | 253 | 232 | |
Per Game | 6.6 | 4.9 | 6.2 | 7.4 | 8.3 | |
Offensive | - | - | - | 80 | ||
Defensive | - | - | - | 152 | ||
Blocks | 213 | 27 | 34 | 84 | 73 | |
Assists | 59 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 19 | |
Steals | 103 | 22 | 20 | 26 | 35 | |
Turnovers | 193 | 32 | 47 | 72 | 42 | |
(Assists+Steals)/TO | 0.84 | 1.09 | 0.79 | 0.50 | 1.29 | |
FG: Attempts | 774 | 175 | 203 | 218 | 178 | |
Made | 425 | 95 | 113 | 123 | 94 | |
Percent | 54.9 | 54.3 | 55.7 | 56.4 | 52.8 | |
3FG: Attempts | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Made | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Percent | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | |
FT: Attempts | 535 | 108 | 136 | 151 | 140 | |
Made | 358 | 74 | 89 | 96 | 99 | |
Percent | 66.9 | 68.5 | 65.4 | 63.6 | 70.7 | |
Production Points/Game | 13.40 | 10.09 | 12.71 | 14.50 | 17.14 | |
Production Points/Minute | .623 | .591 | .635 | .590 | .684 |
1994: Lettered, Big 8 All-Freshman team
1995: Lettered. Honorable Mention All Big 8, Big 8 All-Underrated and All-Bench teams.
1996: Lettered, 2nd team All Big 8 (AP), Honorable Mention All Big 8.
1997: Lettered, Captain, Honorable Mention All-American (AP)
PROFESSIONAL CAREER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8nBE8WNFxw
Pro career: |
Round drafted: 1 |
Detroit Pistons |
1998-99 |
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Atlanta Hawks |
1999 |
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Sacramento Kings |
1999-Present |
Links to NBA stats:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/pollasc01.html
http://www.nba.com/playerfile/scot_pollard/index.html
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=0664
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3189
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/players/3189/
To Pollard, image is everything, and nothing, By Gordon Monson, Salt Lake Tribune
Pollard excited to join Celtics, by Gary Bedore
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Scot Pollard (born February 12, 1975 in Murray, Utah) is an American professional basketball player. He plays for the Boston Celtics of the NBA. In a nine-year NBA career, he has played for four tems, spending the bulk of his career with the Sacremento Kings and Indiana Pacers. Pollard is well known both for his defensive play and his unique hairstyles.
Pollard played high school basketball fpr three years at Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, Californis, before moving to Kennewick, Washington to play for Kamiakin High School . After graduating, he attended the University of Kansas, from where he graduated in 1997. While playing NCAA basketball, Pollard finished sixth in Jayhawks history among free throw shooters, with 358; fourth in rebounds with a total of 850; and second place in blocked shots, with 218.
Pollard was selected 19th overall in the 1997 NBA Draft by the Detroit Pistons, with whom he debuted during the 1996-97 season. In 33 games with the Pistons, he averaged 2.7 points per game, as well as 2.2 rebounds and 0.3 assists.
He and Pistons teammate Christian Laettner were traded to the Atlanta Hawks, but Pollard never suited up for a game with them and was waived almost a month later. Pollard was traded to the Sacramento Kings, whose management was trying to build a successful playoff team at the time, before the 1997-98 season began. But, during first season with the Kings, he suffered an injury that allowed him to play only for sixteen games, and he was not able to play for the entire, strike shortened 1999 season.
In Sacramento, Pollard came very close to winning a championship; the Kings almost beat eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers during the 2000-01 season's playoffs, but, nevertheless, a three point shot by Robert Horry with less than one second to go in game five of that series gave the Lakers that game and eventually helped them take the series from the Kings in seven games.
Pollard spent the 2002-03 NBA season plagued, once again, by injuries. After that season, he was traded to the Indiana Pacers.
As Pollard had an average of 3.4 rebounds, 3.2 points scored and 0.4 assists per game, his main contribution to the Pacers was his defensive prowess. He played an average of about 12 minutes per game.
Pollard's contract with the Pacers expired fowwoing the 2005-06 season. On August 18, 2006, Pollard signed a one-year contract with the Cleveland Caveliers. On August, 7, 2007, it was announced that the Boston Celtics has agreed to a one-year contract with Pollard.
Pollard is known across the NBA for his peculiar hairstyles. His rebounding skills and different hairstyles have reminded some NBA historians of Dennis Rodman, who made his mark in the NBA during the 1990s by breaking league rebound records and wearing different hair dye colors.
Pollard's hair does have included a mohawk, a single pony tail and a bald head. On January 2, 2006, he introduced a new (for him) hair style when he wore two pony tails during a Pacers home game against the Seattle Supersonics.