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

Atlanta Hawks

1999

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

Kings' Pollard proof hard work pays

Pollard excited to join Celtics, by Gary Bedore

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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.

Ex-Jayhawk excited to join Celtics, 8/10/07