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Willis Reed
Sign in to saveAlso known as Willis Reed, Jr., Willis Reed Jr.
American basketball player (1942–2023)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Science the Revealed Religion
- Bridge That Leads To God
- A will to win
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 4
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,499x
- SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector
· 2016 · cited 21,212x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,953x
- Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint
· 1988 · cited 16,575x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,326x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1942-06-25 ) June 25, 1942, Hico, Louisiana , U.S.
- Died
- March 21, 2023 (2023-03-21) (aged 80), Houston , Texas, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
- Listed weight
- 240 lb (109 kg)
- High school
- West Side ( Lillie, Louisiana )
- College
- Grambling State (1960–1964)
- Nba draft
- 1964 : 2nd round, 8th overall pick
- Drafted by
- New York Knicks
- Playing career
- 1964–1974
- Position
- Center
- Coaching career
- 1977–1989
- 1964 1974
- New York Knicks
- 1977 1978
- New York Knicks
- 1981 1985
- Creighton
- 1985 1987
- Atlanta Hawks (assistant)
- 1987 1988
- Sacramento Kings (assistant)
- 1988 1989
- New Jersey Nets
- Points
- 12,183 (18.7 ppg)
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- _Retired Basketball
- Position
- Center
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 107
- Image
- Willis Reed 1972 publicity photo.jpg
- Height
- 206
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- date of birth
- 1942-06-25
- Commons category
- Willis Reed
- end of work period
- 1974-00-00
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- date of death
- 2023-03-21
- name in native language
- Willis Reed
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Article
Willis Reed Jr. (June 25, 1942 – March 21, 2023) was an American professional basketball player, coach, and general manager. He spent his entire ten-year pro playing career (1964–1974) with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Reed was a seven-time NBA All-Star and five-time All-NBA selection, including once on the first team in 1970, when he was named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP). Until Nikola Jokić won his first MVP in 2020-21, he was the only player drafted in the second round to win the award. He was a two-time NBA champion (1970, 1973) and was voted the NBA Finals MVP both times. In 1982, Reed was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was named to both the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams.
After retiring as a player, Reed served as assistant and head coach with several teams for nearly a decade, then was promoted to general manager and vice president of basketball operations (1989–1996) for the New Jersey Nets. As senior vice president of basketball operations, he helped to lead them to the NBA Finals in 2002 and 2003.