.jpg) Schrempf in 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1963-01-21)January 21, 1963 (age 62) |
| Nationality | German / American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
| Listed weight | 235 lb (107 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Centralia (Centralia, Washington) |
| College | Washington (1981–1985) |
| NBA draft | 1985: 1st round, 8th overall pick |
| Drafted by | Dallas Mavericks |
| Playing career | 1985–2001 |
| Position | Small forward /power forward |
| Number | 32, 11, 12 |
| Coaching career | 2005–2007 |
| Career history | |
Playing | |
| 1985–1989 | Dallas Mavericks |
| 1989–1993 | Indiana Pacers |
| 1993–1999 | Seattle SuperSonics |
| 1999–2001 | Portland Trail Blazers |
Coaching | |
| 2005–2007 | Seattle SuperSonics (assistant) |
| Career highlights | |
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| Career NBA statistics | |
| Points | 15,761 (13.9 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 7,023 (6.2 rpg) |
| Assists | 3,833 (3.4 apg) |
Stats at NBA.com  | |
| Stats atBasketball Reference | |
| FIBA Hall of Fame | |
Detlef Schrempf (born January 21, 1963) is a German-American former professionalbasketball player. He playedcollege basketball for theWashington Huskies from 1981 to 1985, and was drafted into theNational Basketball Association (NBA) by theDallas Mavericks in the first round of the1985 NBA draft, with the eighth overall pick. He was anAll-NBA Third Team member in 1995, a three-timeNBA All-Star, the first European player ever to achieve this award, and theNBA Sixth Man of the Year twice.
Schrempf played in the NBA for 16 seasons, including stints with theIndiana Pacers, theSeattle SuperSonics, and thePortland Trail Blazers.[1] In 1996, he reached theNBA Finals with the SuperSonics. He played for theWest German, and later German, national team in the1984 and1992 Summer Olympics and the1983 and1985 EuroBasket championships. Schrempf was inducted into theFIBA Hall of Fame in 2021.[2]
Born inLeverkusen,West Germany, Schrempf played for the youth teams ofBayer Leverkusen, before attendingCentralia High School inCentralia, Washington, United States, for one year. As a senior, he led the Tigers to theClass AA (now 2A) state championship in 1981, scoring 24 points in the title game,[3] a 52–43 victory over theTimberline Blazers ofLacey.[4] After graduating he enrolled at theUniversity of Washington inSeattle, where he played for theHuskies under head coachMarv Harshman. With Schrempf, the Huskies won Pac-10 regular-season titles in 1984 and 1985 and made three postseason appearances, reaching the Sweet 16 in1984. He was named team captain for his senior year.[5] In his career at Washington, he scored 1,449 total points.[6]
Schrempf was named to theAll-Pac-10 First Team andThe Sporting News All-America Second Team. He was inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame in 1995, and was also named to the University of Washington All-Century Team. While attending UW, he was a member of thePhi Delta Thetafraternity and majored ininternational business.[4]
Schrempf was selected eighth overall by theDallas Mavericks in the1985 NBA draft. He became a regular in NBA rotations after being traded to theIndiana Pacers for veteran centerHerb Williams in February 1989.[7] Playing for the Mavericks, he finished second in the NBA with a .478 three-point percentage in 1986–87, and eventually worked his way into the starting lineup. In 1991 and 1992, he won consecutiveNBA Sixth Man Awards. In the 1992–93 season, he was the only player in the NBA to finish in the top 25 in scoring (19.1 ppg), rebounding (9.5 rpg) and assists (6.0 apg),[8] and was the first European[9] selected to play in theNBA All-Star Game, the first of his three appearances.
Following the1992–93 NBA season, Schrempf was traded to theSeattle SuperSonics for forwardsDerrick McKey andGerald Paddio. He ranked second in the NBA in three-point accuracy during the1994–95 season with a 51.4 three-point field goal percentage and became leader in the NBA in offensive rating the same season with 127 points per 100 possessions. On a Sonics team that also featuredGary Payton,Shawn Kemp,Sam Perkins, andHersey Hawkins, Schrempf reached theNBA Finals in 1996, where they lost toMichael Jordan'sChicago Bulls in six games. Schrempf became the first (and one of only four, to date, along withDirk Nowitzki,Daniel Theis, andMaxi Kleber) German-born NBA player to reach the NBA Finals. While with the Sonics, Schrempf played in the NBA All-Star game in both 1995 and 1997.
Schrempf was released by the Sonics in 1999 and signed the same day by thePortland Trail Blazers, with whom he played until his retirement from professional basketball in 2001, playing in a total of 1,136 regular season games and 114 playoff games.
On January 24, 2006, the Seattle SuperSonics hired Schrempf as an assistant coach underBob Hill, who had coached Schrempf when he played for theIndiana Pacers.[10]
Schrempf first appeared for theWest Germany national team at theEuroBasket in1983. He also led the team in scoring during the event at 15.3 ppg.[11] A year later, he led the team to the1984 Olympics.[12] In 1985, Schrempf helped West Germany to their best finish at the EuroBasket in their history to that point.[13] Seven years later, at the1992 Olympics, he represented the team for his last international tournament.[14]
Schrempf established theDetlef Schrempf Foundation in 1996 to benefit local charities. In January 2012, he won thePaul Allen Award for Citizenship (formerly theSeattle Sports Commission Sports Citizen of the Year) at the 77th annual Sports Star of the Year banquet in Seattle.[15] His foundation hosts the Detlef Schrempf Celebrity Golf Classic atMcCormick Woods Golf Course inPort Orchard, Washington, each summer and has raised about $10 million for children's charities in the Pacific Northwest.[16]
Schrempf is married to Mari Schrempf. They have two sons, Alex and Michael.[17] Since 2010, Schrempf has been the Business Development Officer at Coldstream Capital, a wealth management firm in Seattle.[18]
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| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
| * | Led the league |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985–86 | Dallas | 64 | 12 | 15.1 | .451 | .429 | .724 | 3.1 | 1.4 | .4 | .2 | 6.2 |
| 1986–87 | Dallas | 81 | 5 | 21.1 | .472 | .478 | .742 | 3.7 | 2.0 | .6 | .2 | 9.3 |
| 1987–88 | Dallas | 82 | 4 | 19.4 | .456 | .156 | .756 | 3.4 | 1.9 | .5 | .4 | 8.5 |
| 1988–89 | Dallas | 37 | 1 | 22.8 | .426 | .125 | .789 | 4.5 | 2.3 | .6 | .2 | 9.5 |
| 1988–89 | Indiana | 32 | 12 | 31.4 | .514 | .263 | .772 | 7.2 | 2.9 | .9 | .3 | 14.8 |
| 1989–90 | Indiana | 78 | 18 | 33.0 | .516 | .354 | .820 | 7.9 | 3.2 | .8 | .2 | 16.2 |
| 1990–91 | Indiana | 82 | 3 | 32.1 | .520 | .375 | .818 | 8.0 | 3.7 | .7 | .3 | 16.1 |
| 1991–92 | Indiana | 80 | 4 | 32.6 | .536 | .324 | .828 | 9.6 | 3.9 | .8 | .5 | 17.3 |
| 1992–93 | Indiana | 82 | 60 | 37.8 | .476 | .154 | .804 | 9.5 | 6.0 | 1.0 | .3 | 19.1 |
| 1993–94 | Seattle | 81 | 80 | 33.7 | .493 | .324 | .769 | 5.6 | 3.4 | .9 | .1 | 15.0 |
| 1994–95 | Seattle | 82* | 82* | 35.2 | .523 | .514 | .839 | 6.2 | 3.8 | 1.1 | .4 | 19.2 |
| 1995–96 | Seattle | 63 | 60 | 34.9 | .486 | .408 | .776 | 5.2 | 4.4 | .9 | .1 | 17.1 |
| 1996–97 | Seattle | 61 | 60 | 35.9 | .492 | .354 | .801 | 6.5 | 4.4 | 1.0 | .3 | 16.8 |
| 1997–98 | Seattle | 78 | 78 | 35.2 | .487 | .415 | .844 | 7.1 | 4.4 | .8 | .2 | 15.8 |
| 1998–99 | Seattle | 50* | 39 | 35.3 | .472 | .395 | .823 | 7.4 | 3.7 | .8 | .5 | 15.0 |
| 1999–00 | Portland | 77 | 6 | 21.6 | .432 | .404 | .833 | 4.3 | 2.6 | .5 | .2 | 7.5 |
| 2000–01 | Portland | 26 | 0 | 15.3 | .411 | .375 | .852 | 3.0 | 1.7 | .3 | .1 | 4.0 |
| Career | 1,136 | 524 | 29.6 | .491 | .384 | .803 | 6.2 | 3.4 | .8 | .3 | 13.9 | |
| All-Star | 3 | 0 | 17.0 | .455 | .250 | .333 | 3.7 | 2.3 | .0 | .3 | 7.7 | |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Dallas | 10 | 0 | 12.0 | .464 | .000 | .647 | 2.3 | 1.4 | .2 | .1 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | Dallas | 4 | 0 | 24.3 | .371 | .000 | .455 | 3.0 | 1.5 | .8 | .5 | 7.8 |
| 1988 | Dallas | 15 | 0 | 18.3 | .465 | .333 | .706 | 3.7 | 1.6 | .5 | .5 | 7.8 |
| 1990 | Indiana | 3 | 3 | 41.7 | .489 | .000 | .938 | 7.3 | 1.7 | .7 | .3 | 20.3 |
| 1991 | Indiana | 5 | 0 | 35.8 | .474 | .000 | .833 | 7.2 | 2.2 | .4 | .0 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | Indiana | 3 | 0 | 40.0 | .383 | .500 | .893 | 13.0 | 2.3 | .7 | .3 | 21.0 |
| 1993 | Indiana | 4 | 4 | 41.3 | .463 | .000 | .778 | 5.8 | 7.3 | .3 | .5 | 19.5 |
| 1994 | Seattle | 5 | 5 | 34.8 | .520 | .333 | .867 | 5.4 | 2.0 | .2 | .6 | 18.6 |
| 1995 | Seattle | 4 | 4 | 38.3 | .404 | .556 | .792 | 4.8 | 3.0 | .8 | .5 | 18.8 |
| 1996 | Seattle | 21 | 21 | 37.6 | .475 | .368 | .750 | 5.0 | 3.2 | .7 | .2 | 16.0 |
| 1997 | Seattle | 12 | 12 | 38.3 | .472 | .552 | .815 | 5.8 | 3.4 | 1.1 | .1 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | Seattle | 10 | 10 | 37.5 | .512 | .143 | .816 | 7.7 | 3.9 | .7 | .1 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | Portland | 15 | 0 | 18.4 | .393 | .167 | .830 | 3.5 | 2.0 | .3 | .0 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | Portland | 3 | 0 | 10.7 | .667 | .667 | .667 | 1.7 | .3 | .0 | .0 | 4.7 |
| Career | 114 | 59 | 29.3 | .465 | .373 | .789 | 5.0 | 2.6 | .5 | .2 | 12.6 | |
| Year | Competition | GP | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | EuroBasket | ||||||||||
| 1984 | Olympic Games | ||||||||||
| 1985 | EuroBasket | ||||||||||
| 1992 | Olympic Games | ||||||||||
| Career | 71 |
