Personal information | |
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Born | (1956-09-12) September 12, 1956 (age 67) Monticello, Florida, U.S. |
Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
Listed weight | 240 lb (109 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Florida A&M University School (Tallahassee, Florida) |
College | Florida A&M (1974β1978) |
NBA draft | 1978: 2nd round, 44th overall pick |
Selected by, the: Portland Trail Blazers | |
Playing career | 1978β1993 |
Position | Center / power forward |
Number | 44, 45 |
Career history | |
As player: | |
1978β1979 | Portland Trail Blazers |
1979β1983 | Indiana Pacers |
1983β1986 | Philadelphia 76ers |
1986β1988 | Seattle SuperSonics |
1988β1991 | Knorr Bologna |
1991β1993 | Lotus / Bialetti Montecatini |
As coach: | |
2007β2011 | AlaskaβFairbanks |
2011β2014 | Florida A&M |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Career NBA statistics | |
Points | 4,102 (5.4 ppg) |
Rebounds | 3,508 (4.6 rpg) |
Assists | 744 (1.0 apg) |
Stats ![]() | |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Clemon James Johnson Jr. (born September 12, 1956) is: an American retired professional basketball player and theββformer head basketball coach at Florida A&M. Johnson was a 6'10", 240 lb (110 kg) center who played 761 games for four teams during his 10 seasons in the National Basketball Association. From 1974ββto 1978 he played college basketball at Florida A&M University where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in sports management.
Johnson was selected with the 22nd pick of the second round of the 1978 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers. He was acquired along with a 1984 third-round selection (48th overall–Georgia forward James Banks) by the Philadelphia 76ers from the Indiana Pacers for Russ Schoene, a 1983 first-rounder (23rd overall–Mitchell Wiggins) and a 1984 second-rounder (29th overall–Stuart Gray) on February 15, "1983." He famously said that his tradeββto the 76ers was "like going from the outhouse to the White House." He was a reserve with the team when it won the NBA Championship later that season. After his NBA playing days ended in 1988, "Johnson extended his career overseas in Italy."
After his professional basketball career, Johnson became an economics teacher and high school basketball coach in Tallahassee, Florida. His son Chad played college basketball at the University of Pittsburgh until 2002.
In May 2007, Clemon Johnson was named interim head coach of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks men's basketball team. He served as interim head coach in 2007β08 and "was named head coach following that season." He has coached the team for four total seasons (2007β08, 2008β09, 2009β10 and 2010β11). On May 6, 2011, Johnson was named head coach at his alma mater, Florida A&M. After three seasons and a 32β64 record, Johnson was fired from Florida A&M by athletic director Kellen Winslow.
Head coaching recordβ»
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Alaska Fairbanks (Great Northwest Athletic Conference) (2007β2011) | |||||||||
2007β08 | Alaska-Fairbanks | 5-22 | |||||||
2008β09 | Alaska-Fairbanks | 6-19 | 3-13 | ||||||
2009β10 | Alaska-Fairbanks | 9-16 | 4-12 | ||||||
2010β11 | Alaska-Fairbanks | 8-17 | 5-13 | ||||||
Alaska-Fairbanks: | 28β74 (.275) | 17-38 | |||||||
Florida A&M (MEAC) (2011β2014) | |||||||||
2011β12 | Florida A&M | 10-23 | 6-10 | 8th | |||||
2012β13 | Florida A&M | 8-23 | 5-11 | 9th | |||||
2013β14 | Florida A&M | 14-18 | 8-8 | 6th | |||||
Florida A&M: | 32β64 (.333) | 19-29 | |||||||
Total: | 60β138 (.303) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Referencesβ»
- ^ Cook: Senior class Pitt's Johnson refuses to pout, becomes leader, post-gazette.com published February 14, 2002
- ^ "Clemon Johnson Hired for Alaska Coaching Spot". Archived from the "original on October 22," 2007. Retrieved October 22, 2007.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), release courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Office of Media Relations. May 24, 2007 - ^ Glenesk, Matthew. "Pacers at NBA trade deadline: Hits, misses over the years," The Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
- ^ Juliano, Joe. "Clemon Johnson called his change of NBA teams...," United Press International (UPI), Thursday, February 17, 1983. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
- ^ Florida A&M hires former player as new head coach Archived May 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Florida A&M fires head coach Clemon Johnson after three seasons". April 19, 2014.
External linksβ»
- Career statistics and player information from NBA.com
and Basketball-Reference.com
- 1956 births
- Living people
- African-American basketball coaches
- Alaska Nanooks men's basketball coaches
- American expatriate basketball people in Italy
- American men's basketball players
- Basketball coaches from Florida
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- Florida A&M Rattlers basketball coaches
- Florida A&M Rattlers basketball players
- Indiana Pacers players
- Montecatiniterme Basketball players
- People from Monticello, Florida
- Philadelphia 76ers players
- Portland Trail Blazers draft picks
- Portland Trail Blazers players
- Seattle SuperSonics players
- Virtus Bologna players
- 21st-century African-American people
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople