By mid-season he took over point guard duties from Skiles. He started out the season at the shooting guard position while he learned the point guard position from veteran Scott Skiles. Two days before the draft, Hardaway participated in a pick-up basketball game with several Magic players and local talent and impressed the organization enough to make the draft day trade. The Magic's intent was to draft Webber and pair him with Shaquille O'Neal until Hardaway – whose desire was to play alongside O'Neal – requested a second workout to show why he should be their pick. Hardaway was selected by the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the 1993 NBA draft (third pick overall), but was traded along with three future first-round picks to the Orlando Magic for the rights to first overall pick Chris Webber.
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Professional career Orlando Magic (1993–1999) 1993–94 season: All-Rookie honors Additionally, he was a leading vote getter on ESPN Conference USA Silver Anniversary Team. Hardaway was named #5 on the list of top 100 modern college point guards by. He returned to the University of Memphis in May 2003 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in professional studies, ten years after leaving school early to turn pro. In 1994, Memphis State retired his jersey number, 25, Hardaway's number while playing for the Tigers. Hardaway achieved a 3.4 cumulative GPA, but passed up his senior season to enter the 1993 NBA Draft.
Wooden Award that are annually given the most outstanding player in college basketball. He also was a finalist for the Naismith College Player of the Year and the John R. Hardaway returned for his junior season (1992–93) and bettered his numbers from the previous season. Hardaway was teammates with Chris Webber, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Rodney Rogers, Eric Montross, Grant Hill, and Allan Houston. In the summer of 1992 Hardaway was selected to the 1992 USA Basketball Developmental Team that scrimmaged daily against the 1992 Olympic Team. He returned to school while rehabbing his foot when the bullet was removed that year, he made the Dean's List. While he was sitting out, Hardaway was robbed at gunpoint outside his cousin LaMarcus Golden's house and was shot in his foot by a stray bullet, putting his career in jeopardy. He took the ACT five times with a maximum score of 17.2, with 17.5 being required to be eligible to play in college. His grades were so low that he was admitted to the University on a special exemption from University President Thomas G. He finished his high school career with 3,039 points.Īt Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis), Hardaway had to sit out the 1990–91 season with the Memphis State Tigers due to being academically ineligible according to the Proposition 48 regulation. Hardaway grew up playing basketball in Memphis for Treadwell High School where he averaged 36.6 points, 10.1 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 3.9 steals, and 2.8 blocks as a senior and was named Parade Magazine National High School player of the year. As a teenager, Hardaway refereed youth sports at the Memphis YMCA and played on its Jr.
He was raised in the Binghampton neighborhood of shotgun houses in Memphis. Hardaway's first love was football, but his grandmother did not want him to get hurt. His nickname came as a result of his grandmother's calling him "Pretty" with a southern drawl, thus sounding like "Penny".
When she left Memphis to work in Oakland in 1974, she left her son with her mother, Louise. The name Anfernee ( / ˈ æ n f ər n iː/) was that of a schoolmate of his mother. Hardaway is the son of Fae Hardaway (born 1951) and Eddie Golden. Hardaway played college basketball at Memphis and 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he was a four-time NBA All-Star and a two-time All-NBA First Team member. 2× Great Midwest Player of the Year (1992, 1993)Īnfernee Deon " Penny" Hardaway (born July 18, 1971) is an American college basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the Memphis Tigers men's team in the American Athletic Conference (AAC).Consensus first-team All-American ( 1993).
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