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Clyde Drexler

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Also known as Clyde Austin Drexler, Clyde the Glide

American basketball player (born 1962)

OverviewAI-generated

Clyde Drexler was a male basketball player from the United States who played the shooting guard position. His professional work period spanned from 1983 to 1998. He is listed as a retired basketball player. Drexler stood 201 centimeters tall and weighed 95 kilograms.

He was born on June 22, 1962. Open Library records two works associated with his name, titled "Clyde the glide" and "Clyde the Glide." Crossref lists five works under his name. A box score from a November 1, 1996 game between Sacramento and Houston is preserved in an archived web page.

Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Firecrawl, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Clyde the glide
  • Clyde the Glide

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Uruguay
Active from
1964-09-21
latin ballad

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10
Total plays
65

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Clyde+Drexler">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Clyde Drexler

Key facts

Born
( 1962-06-22 ) June 22, 1962 (age 63) , New Orleans, Louisiana , U.S.
Listed height
6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight
222 lb (101 kg)
High school
Sterling ( Houston, Texas )
College
Houston (1980–1983)
Nba draft
1983 : 1st round, 14th overall pick
Drafted by
Portland Trail Blazers
Playing career
1983–1998
Position
Shooting guard / small forward
Coaching career
1998–2002
1983 1995
Portland Trail Blazers
1995 1998
Houston Rockets
1998 2000
Houston Cougars
2001 2002
Denver Nuggets (assistant)
Points
22,195 (20.4 ppg)
Rebounds
6,677 (6.1 rpg)
Assists
6,125 (5.6 apg)

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Basketball
Team
_Retired Basketball
Position
Shooting Guard
Nationality
United States

via TheSportsDB

Described at

Box score: Sacramento at Houston [November 01, 1996]

web.archive.org

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Encyclopedic overview

Clyde Austin Drexler Sr. (born June 22, 1962) is an American former professional basketball player who currently works as the commissioner of the Big3 3-on-3 basketball league. Nicknamed "Clyde the Glide", he played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), spending a majority of his career with the Portland Trail Blazers before finishing with the Houston Rockets. He was a ten-time NBA All-Star, five time All-NBA Selection, and was named to the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams. Drexler led Portland to the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992, won an NBA championship with Houston in 1995, and earned a gold medal on the 1992 United States Olympic team known as "The Dream Team". He was inducted twice into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2004 for his individual career and in 2010 as a member of the "Dream Team". Drexler is often considered among the top basketball players and top shooting guards of all time.

Early years

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clyde Drexler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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