October 25, 2013(2013-10-25) (aged 87) Redondo Beach, California, U.S.
Listed height
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Listed weight
175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
High school
Porterville (Porterville, California)
College
USC (1946–1950)
NBA draft
1950: 2nd round, 17th overall pick
Selected by the Washington Capitols
Playing career
1950–1961
Position
Shooting guard
Number
10, 21
Coaching career
1961–1976
Career history
As player:
1950–1951
Washington Capitols
1951–1961
Boston Celtics
As coach:
1961–1962
Cleveland Pipers
1966–1968
San Francisco Warriors
1968–1971
Los Angeles / Utah Stars
1971–1976
Los Angeles Lakers
Career highlights and awards
As player:
4× NBA champion (1957, 1959–1961)
8× NBA All-Star (1953–1960)
NBA All-Star Game MVP (1955)
4× All-NBA First Team (1956–1959)
3× All-NBA Second Team (1953, 1955, 1960)
NBA anniversary team (25th, 50th, 75th)
No. 21 retired by Boston Celtics
Consensus first-team All-America (1950)
2× First-team All-PCC (1949, 1950)
No. 11 retired by USC Trojans
As coach:
NBA champion (1972)
ABA champion (1971)
ABL champion (1962)
NBA Coach of the Year (1972)
ABA Coach of the Year (1970)
3× NBA All-Star Game head coach (1968, 1972, 1973)
As executive:
5× NBA champion (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988)
Career playing statistics
Points
12,665 (17.8 ppg)
Rebounds
2,779 (3.9 rpg)
Assists
2,101 (3.0 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Career coaching record
NBA & ABA
466–353 (.569)
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
Basketball Hall of Fame as coach
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006
William Walton Sharman (May 25, 1926 – October 25, 2013) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is mostly known for his time with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s, partnering with Bob Cousy in what was then considered the greatest backcourt duo of all time. As a coach, Sharman won titles in the ABL, ABA, and NBA, and is credited with introducing the now-ubiquitous morning shootaround.
Sharman was the first North American sports figure to win a championship as a player, coach, and executive. He was a 15-time NBA champion (having won four titles as a player with the Celtics, one as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, and ten as a Lakers executive), and a 17-time World Champion in basketball overall counting his ABL and ABA titles.[1][2] Sharman is also a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, having been inducted in 1976 as a player, and in 2004 as a coach.[3] Only John Wooden, Lenny Wilkens, Tommy Heinsohn and Bill Russell share this double honor.
Sharman is also notable for coaching the 1971-72 Lakers to an NBA record 33 game win streak, a then-record regular season 69–13 win–loss mark, and the first Lakers championship in Los Angeles.
^"Bill Sharman: Former Lakers Head Coach, General Manager, & President". NBA.com. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
^"Former Celtics Player, Lakers Coach Bill Sharman Passes Away at Age 87". BleacherReport.com. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
^Lavietes, Stuart (October 25, 2013), "Bill Sharman, N.B.A. Hall of Fame Player and Coach, Dies at 87", The New York Times
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