Doug West, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Doug West

American basketball player

Date of Birth: 27-May-1967

Place of Birth: Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Doug West

  • Jeffery Douglas West (born May 27, 1967) is a retired American professional basketball player.
  • A 6'6" (198 cm) shooting guard/small forward from Villanova University, West was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round of the 1989 NBA Draft.
  • An athletic, well-rounded player who could score as well as defend, West was an "original" Timberwolf, being drafted by the team in its first year of existence.
  • He was the last of the original roster to remain on the team. West became a regular starter for the Timberwolves during the 1991-92 NBA season, in which he averaged 14.0 points per game, appeared in the Gatorade Slam Dunk Championship, and earned Timberwolves' Defensive Player of the Year Honors.
  • The following season, he averaged a career high 19.3 points per game. During the 1993 offseason, the Timberwolves made shooting guard Isaiah Rider their first round draft pick and made him the starter at the position.
  • West was moved to small forward, where his numbers declined significantly.
  • In 1995, he broke Tony Campbell's team-record 4,888 points to become the Timberwolves' all-time leading scorer (a distinction now held by Kevin Garnett).
  • The following offseason, the team drafted Garnett, and West was moved to the bench, starting just 16 games.
  • He returned to the starting lineup for the 1996-97 season when Rider was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers, which would be his last season as a starter. By the mid-1990s, injuries had begun to take their toll on West, and he was traded to the Vancouver Grizzlies in exchange for Anthony Peeler after the 1997-98 NBA season.
  • West provided a veteran presence for the struggling young Grizzlies, but he saw very limited playing time, and he finally retired from the NBA in 2001.
  • He had tallied career totals of 6,477 points, 1,670 rebounds, and 1,292 assists.
  • In the late 1990s, West suffered from depression and alcoholism, for which he sought treatment.After the NBA, West spent two years coaching at a high school in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and two years as an athletic director at a high school in Wheeling, West Virginia.
  • West was an assistant coach for the Duquesne University women's basketball team for one season.
  • West was named an assistant coach for the Villanova Wildcats, replacing Ed Pinckney on October 5, 2007.
  • In 2012, West joined the coaching staff of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA D-League.On July 9, 2015, West was announced as the men's basketball head coach at Penn State Altoona.
  • On May 20, 2016, West was announced as the boys basketball coach at his alma mater, Altoona Area High School.

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