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David Harrison (basketball)
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David Joshua Harrison is an American
professional basketball
player. A former NBA player, he was a member of the Beijing Ducks
for the 2008-09 season and played with the Guangdong Southern Tigers
for the next two years. He is now a member of Tianjin Ronggang
. At Brentwood Academy
, Harrison received TSSAA Division 2 Mr. Basketball
in 2000 and 2001. He was drafted by the Indiana Pacers
out of the University of Colorado at Boulder
with the 29th pick of the 2004 NBA Draft
. He is 7 feet (2.1 m) tall and weighs 280 pounds (127 kg).
as a junior. He finished his college career as Colorado's all-time leading shot-blocker with 225 blocks.
, behind Jeff Foster and Scot Pollard
. However, due to injuries to Pollard and the suspensions of Jermaine O'Neal
, Stephen Jackson
and Ron Artest
, he became a starter at a much earlier part of his career than most people anticipated. He ended up starting 14 of the 43 games he played in his rookie season, before missing the final two months due to injury.
Harrison was charged with one count of assault
and battery
for his involvement in the Pacers–Pistons brawl at The Palace of Auburn Hills
on November 19, 2004, though he was not penalized by the league for the incident.
In his sophomore season of 2005-06 with the Pacers, Harrison played in 67 games, starting 17 of them, playing an average of 15.4 minutes and contributing 5.7 points and 3.8 rebounds per game.
In 2008, the Pacers suspended Harrison for one game following an incident in which Harrison expressed his frustration inside the San Antonio Spurs
' locker room after Spurs forward Matt Bonner
hit him in the face (Bonner was called for an offensive foul). In Harrison's first game back from the suspension he had 4 points, 6 rebounds and a career high 6 blocks in just 20 minutes of play.
The Indiana Pacers chose not to re-sign Harrison after his contract expired at the end of the 2007-08 season. The Minnesota Timberwolves
signed him to their practice squad for the preseason, but he was waived before the 2008-09 regular season began.
's The Real World: Philadelphia
as he and cast member MJ Garrett were buddies from back home.
On January 11, 2008, Harrison received a five-game suspension for violating the league's anti-drug policy.
The Indianapolis Star
reported that Harrison was sorry for the way the suspension made the team look bad.
"I didn't like seeing that," Harrison said. "I want to apologize to Larry (Bird), Donnie Walsh
, my teammates and the fans for letting them down."
Harrison reportedly stated that he did not feel that the NBA should be able to look into his off-the-court behavior except in the case of performance-enhancing drugs
.
| align="left" | 2004–05
| align="left" | Indiana
| 43 || 14 || 17.7 || .576 || .000 || .571 || 3.1 || .3 || .4 || 1.3 || 6.1
|-
| align="left" | 2005–06
| align="left" | Indiana
| 67 || 17 || 15.4 || .503 || .000 || .511 || 3.8 || .2 || .3 || .9 || 5.7
|-
| align="left" | 2006–07
| align="left" | Indiana
| 24 || 2 || 7.9 || .517 || .000 || .500 || 1.8 || .3 || .2 || .5 || 3.0
|-
| align="left" | 2007–08
| align="left" | Indiana
| 55 || 0 || 12.8 || .529 || .000 || .510 || 2.1 || .3 || .4 || 1.1 || 4.2
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" |
| 189 || 33 || 14.2 || .530 || .000 || .525 || 2.9 || .2 || .3 || .9 || 5.0
| align="left" | 2005–06
| align="left" | Indiana
| 6 || 0 || 5.2 || .333 || .000 || .583 || .8 || .0 || .2 || .2 || 2.2
|-
| align="left" | Career
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| 6 || 0 || 5.2 || .333 || .000 || .583 || .8 || .0 || .2 || .2 || 2.2
| align="left" | 2008–09
| align="left" | Beijing
| 45 || N/A || 42.3 || .632 || .000 || .578 || 11.2 || 1.2 || 1.3 || 2.4 || 22.0
|-
| align="left" | 2009–10
| align="left" | Guangdong
| 41 || N/A || 26.3 || .705 || .000 || .532 || 8.8 || .7 || .6 || 1.2 || 16.7
|-
| align="left" | 2010–11
| align="left" | Guangdong
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| align="left" | Career
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United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
professional basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
player. A former NBA player, he was a member of the Beijing Ducks
Beijing Ducks
Beijing Jinyu Ducks or Beijing Ducks or Beijing Jinyu is a basketball team in the North Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Beijing. They were formerly known as the Beijing Shougang Ducks or Beijing Shougang; the name change was likely due to a change of corporate sponsorship...
for the 2008-09 season and played with the Guangdong Southern Tigers
Guangdong Southern Tigers
Guangdong Winnerway Southern Tigers or Guangdong Southern Tigers or Guangdong Winnerway is a basketball team owned by the Guangdong Winnerway Group. The team is one of the best-performing teams in the Chinese Basketball Association, or CBA...
for the next two years. He is now a member of Tianjin Ronggang
Tianjin Ronggang
The Tianjin Ronggang Golden Lions are a basketball team in the North Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Tianjin....
. At Brentwood Academy
Brentwood Academy
Brentwood Academy is a college preparatory school with a campus located in Brentwood, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. Brentwood Academy is a coeducational, independent, college-preparatory school....
, Harrison received TSSAA Division 2 Mr. Basketball
Tennessee Mr. Basketball Award
Each year the Tennessee Mr. Basketball award is given to the person chosen as the best high school boys basketball player in the U.S. state of Tennessee by the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association. A Mr. Basketball is named for each of five divisions competing in Tennessee boy's...
in 2000 and 2001. He was drafted by the Indiana Pacers
Indiana Pacers
The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They are members of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association...
out of the University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
with the 29th pick of the 2004 NBA Draft
2004 NBA Draft
The 2004 NBA Draft was held on June 24, 2004 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York and was broadcast live on ESPN at 7:00 pm . In this draft, National Basketball Association teams took turns selecting amateur college basketball players and other first-time eligible...
. He is 7 feet (2.1 m) tall and weighs 280 pounds (127 kg).
College career
In college he was named First Team All-Big 12 and earned Honorable Mention All-America honors by the Associated PressAssociated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
as a junior. He finished his college career as Colorado's all-time leading shot-blocker with 225 blocks.
Professional career
Harrison was expected to be the #2 or maybe even #3 center in the Pacers' depth chart for his rookie year of 2004-052004-05 NBA season
The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association . It began on November 2, 2004 and ended June 23, 2005. The season ended with the San Antonio Spurs defeating defending champion Detroit Pistons 4–3 in the NBA Finals....
, behind Jeff Foster and Scot Pollard
Scot Pollard
Scot L. Pollard is a retired American professional basketball player. In an eleven-year NBA career, he played for five teams, spending the bulk of his career with the Sacramento Kings and the Indiana Pacers...
. However, due to injuries to Pollard and the suspensions of Jermaine O'Neal
Jermaine O'Neal
Jermaine Lee O'Neal is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics. The 6 ft 11 in , 255 lb forward-center had a successful high school career and declared his eligibility for the 1996 NBA Draft straight out of high school...
, Stephen Jackson
Stephen Jackson
Stephen Jesse Jackson is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks. Jackson is a 6'8" guard-forward.-Early life, high school, and college:Jackson was born in Houston and grew up in Port Arthur, Texas...
and Ron Artest
Ron Artest
Metta World Peace is an American professional basketball player and rapper who is currently with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA. World Peace gained a reputation as one of the league's premier defenders as he won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2004...
, he became a starter at a much earlier part of his career than most people anticipated. He ended up starting 14 of the 43 games he played in his rookie season, before missing the final two months due to injury.
Harrison was charged with one count of assault
Assault
In law, assault is a crime causing a victim to fear violence. The term is often confused with battery, which involves physical contact. The specific meaning of assault varies between countries, but can refer to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more...
and battery
Battery (crime)
Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault which is the fear of such contact.In the United States, criminal battery, or simply battery, is the use of force against another, resulting in harmful or offensive contact...
for his involvement in the Pacers–Pistons brawl at The Palace of Auburn Hills
The Palace of Auburn Hills
The Palace of Auburn Hills, often referred to simply as The Palace, is a sports and entertainment venue in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a suburb on the northern outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1988, it is the home of the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association...
on November 19, 2004, though he was not penalized by the league for the incident.
In his sophomore season of 2005-06 with the Pacers, Harrison played in 67 games, starting 17 of them, playing an average of 15.4 minutes and contributing 5.7 points and 3.8 rebounds per game.
In 2008, the Pacers suspended Harrison for one game following an incident in which Harrison expressed his frustration inside the San Antonio Spurs
San Antonio Spurs
The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
' locker room after Spurs forward Matt Bonner
Matt Bonner
Matthew Robert "Matt" Bonner is an American professional basketball player who is currently a member of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association . Bonner played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the second round of the...
hit him in the face (Bonner was called for an offensive foul). In Harrison's first game back from the suspension he had 4 points, 6 rebounds and a career high 6 blocks in just 20 minutes of play.
The Indiana Pacers chose not to re-sign Harrison after his contract expired at the end of the 2007-08 season. The Minnesota Timberwolves
Minnesota Timberwolves
The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . Founded in 1989, the team is currently owned by Glen Taylor...
signed him to their practice squad for the preseason, but he was waived before the 2008-09 regular season began.
Personal life
Harrison made an appearance on MTVMTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's The Real World: Philadelphia
The Real World: Philadelphia
The Real World: Philadelphia is the fifteenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. The Philadelphia...
as he and cast member MJ Garrett were buddies from back home.
On January 11, 2008, Harrison received a five-game suspension for violating the league's anti-drug policy.
The Indianapolis Star
The Indianapolis Star
The Indianapolis Star is a morning daily newspaper that began publishing on June 6, 1903. It has won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting twice, in 1975 and 1991. It is currently owned by the Gannett Company.-History:...
reported that Harrison was sorry for the way the suspension made the team look bad.
"I didn't like seeing that," Harrison said. "I want to apologize to Larry (Bird), Donnie Walsh
Donnie Walsh
Joseph Donald Walsh Jr., better known as Donnie Walsh is a former professional basketball coach, and former president of basketball operations for the New York Knicks.-Biography:...
, my teammates and the fans for letting them down."
Harrison reportedly stated that he did not feel that the NBA should be able to look into his off-the-court behavior except in the case of performance-enhancing drugs
Performance-enhancing drugs
Performance-enhancing drugs are substances used by athletes to improve their performances in the sports in which they engage.- Types of performance-enhancing drugs :...
.
Regular season
|-| align="left" | 2004–05
| align="left" | Indiana
Indiana Pacers
The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They are members of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association...
| 43 || 14 || 17.7 || .576 || .000 || .571 || 3.1 || .3 || .4 || 1.3 || 6.1
|-
| align="left" | 2005–06
| align="left" | Indiana
| 67 || 17 || 15.4 || .503 || .000 || .511 || 3.8 || .2 || .3 || .9 || 5.7
|-
| align="left" | 2006–07
| align="left" | Indiana
| 24 || 2 || 7.9 || .517 || .000 || .500 || 1.8 || .3 || .2 || .5 || 3.0
|-
| align="left" | 2007–08
| align="left" | Indiana
| 55 || 0 || 12.8 || .529 || .000 || .510 || 2.1 || .3 || .4 || 1.1 || 4.2
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" |
| 189 || 33 || 14.2 || .530 || .000 || .525 || 2.9 || .2 || .3 || .9 || 5.0
Playoffs
|-| align="left" | 2005–06
2006 NBA Playoffs
The 2006 NBA Playoffs was the postseason of the National Basketball Association's 2005–06 season. The Miami Heat won the first championship in the history of the franchise by defeating the Dallas Mavericks 4-2 in the 2006 NBA Finals...
| align="left" | Indiana
Indiana Pacers
The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They are members of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association...
| 6 || 0 || 5.2 || .333 || .000 || .583 || .8 || .0 || .2 || .2 || 2.2
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| align="left" | Career
| align="left" |
| 6 || 0 || 5.2 || .333 || .000 || .583 || .8 || .0 || .2 || .2 || 2.2
CBA career statistics
|-| align="left" | 2008–09
| align="left" | Beijing
Beijing Ducks
Beijing Jinyu Ducks or Beijing Ducks or Beijing Jinyu is a basketball team in the North Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Beijing. They were formerly known as the Beijing Shougang Ducks or Beijing Shougang; the name change was likely due to a change of corporate sponsorship...
| 45 || N/A || 42.3 || .632 || .000 || .578 || 11.2 || 1.2 || 1.3 || 2.4 || 22.0
|-
| align="left" | 2009–10
2009–10 CBA season
-All-star game:-Slam Dunk Contest:-Three-Point Shootout:-Skills Challenge:-Playoffs:Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in regular season, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round...
| align="left" | Guangdong
Guangdong Southern Tigers
Guangdong Winnerway Southern Tigers or Guangdong Southern Tigers or Guangdong Winnerway is a basketball team owned by the Guangdong Winnerway Group. The team is one of the best-performing teams in the Chinese Basketball Association, or CBA...
| 41 || N/A || 26.3 || .705 || .000 || .532 || 8.8 || .7 || .6 || 1.2 || 16.7
|-
| align="left" | 2010–11
2010–11 CBA season
-All-star game:-Slam Dunk Contest:-Three-Point Shootout:-Skills Challenge:-Playoffs:Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in regular season, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round...
| align="left" | Guangdong
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External links
- David Harrison at NBA.com