Jeff Mullins (basketball)

Jeff Mullins

Mullins (right) guarding Jerry West in 1971
Personal information
Born	(1942-03-18) March 18, 1942 Queens, New York
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight	190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High school	Lafayette (Lexington, Kentucky)
College	Duke (1961–1964)
NBA draft	1964 / Round: 1 / Pick: 5th overall
Selected by the St. Louis Hawks
Playing career	1964–1976
Position	Guard / Forward
Number	44, 23
Coaching career	1985–1996
Career history
As player:
1964–1966	St. Louis Hawks
1966–1976	San Francisco / Golden State Warriors
As coach:
1985–1996	Charlotte 49ers
Career highlights and awards
NBA champion (1975) 3× NBA All-Star (1969–1971) Consensus second-team All-American (1964) ACC Player of the Year (1964) ACC Athlete of the Year (1964) 3× First-team All-ACC (1962–1964) Kentucky Mr. Basketball (1960)
Career statistics
Points	13,017 (16.2 ppg)
Rebounds	3,427 (4.3 rpg)
Assists	3,023 (3.8 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals Men's basketball Representing the  United States Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Team competition

Jeffrey Vincent "Jeff" Mullins (born March 18, 1942) is an American retired basketball player and coach. He played college basketball with the Duke Blue Devils and in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the St. Louis Hawks and Golden State Warriors. Mullins served as the head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 1985 to 1996.

Playing career

Mullins, a native of Lexington, Kentucky, was a very talented 6'4" (1.93 m) forward in high school. After graduation he attended Duke University from 1960 through 1964, where he averaged 21.9 points per game for his career. His #44 Duke jersey was retired in 1994. In 2002, Mullins was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team as one of the fifty greatest players in Atlantic Coast Conference history.

Mullins was a member of the United States Olympic basketball team that won the gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Mullins was taken by the St. Louis Hawks in the first round (6th pick overall) of the 1964 NBA draft. After two lackluster seasons with the Hawks he moved to the Golden State Warriors where he enjoyed the best seasons of his career and was selected as an NBA All-Star three times – in 1969, 1970, and 1971. He helped the Warriors to the 1967 Western Conference title and the 1975 NBA championship. Upon his retirement in 1976 he had amassed a total of 13,017 points for a twelve-year career average of 16.2 points per game.

Coaching career

In 1985, Mullins was hired as the head men's basketball coach and athletic director at UNC Charlotte. The program had struggled since making the NCAA Final Four in 1977, and in three years Mullins took the 49ers back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since their 1977 run. His 182 victories over eleven seasons stood as a school record until Bobby Lutz, Mullins' former assistant coach, surpassed that total in 2008.

During Mullins' tenure, the 49ers played in three conferences: the Sun Belt (1985–1991), the Metro Conference (1991–1995), and Conference USA (1995–1996).

Head coaching record

External links

• Jeff Mullins' statistics at Duke
• NBA Statistics for Jeff Mullins