Rusty LaRue ( born Rusty LaRue ; born December 10, 1973 in Winston-Salem , North Carolina , USA ) is an American professional basketball player and coach who also played baseball and soccer at the student level.
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| Position | Point guard |
| Growth | 188 cm |
| Weight | 95 kg |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Date of Birth | December 10, 1973 (aged 45) |
| Place of Birth | Winston-Salem , state North Carolina , USA |
| College | Wake Forest (1992-1996) |
| Statistics | |
| Games | 98 |
| Glasses | 486 ( 5 on average per game) |
| Rebounds | 126 ( 1.3 on average per game) |
| Gears | 152 ( 1.6 on average per game) |
| Intercepts | 62 ( 0.6 on average per game) |
| Block shots | 11 ( 0.1 on average per game) |
School years
Larue was born in Winston-Salem ( North Carolina ), studied at Northwest Guilford and Greensbor High Schools, where, in addition to being an excellent student, he collected all the awards in basketball, baseball and football. In 1991, he was named the North Carolina Athlete of the Year among high school students, after which he attracted the attention of many student teams. Rusty opted for Wake Forest University , where he planned to play basketball and football for Wake Forest Demon Deacon , speaking at the Atlantic Coast Conference (CAP) , but also played one season with the baseball team, thus becoming just the second player in the history of KAP, who played for one team in three sports.
Student career
Laryu achieved his first great success in college sports on the football field in his first year. In 1992, the Wake Forest Demon Deacon team, in which Rusty played as a quarterback , won the Independence Bowl , the NCAA's top football prize, outplaying the Oregon Ducks club 39-35 in the final. In his fourth year of study, he rewrote eight NCAA records for assists, and also co-wrote the record for the total number of points scored in one game (55). However, Larue was a very reliable basketball player, played as a point guard and, together with his teammates, led his club into the playoffs of the NCAA tournament for four seasons in a row. He took second place in the history of the university in the number of accurate three-pointer in his student career, and also finished first in the percentage of hits of three-point shots [1] . January 19, 2008 inducted into the Wake Forest University Sports Hall of Fame.
In 1997, Larue became a member of the US national basketball champion in Montevideo .
NBA Career
General Information
After university, Larue decided to focus exclusively on basketball, because there were more opportunities to play on a professional level. In 1996, he was not selected by the NBA draft of any of the teams, but the next year he signed a contract with the Chicago Bulls club, having previously spent the 1996/1997 season at the Continental Basketball Association (KBA) for Connecticut Pride , where he honed your skill. He later played for the teams Idaho Stampid (KBA), Asheville Altitude ( LR NBA ), Utah Jazz and Golden State Warriors . In total, the NBA spent 5 incomplete seasons. In the 1997/1998 season, Larue became the NBA champion in the Bulls. During his career in the NBA, he played 98 games in which he scored 486 points (an average of 5.0 per game), made 126 rebounds , 152 assists , 62 interceptions and 11 block shots .
Chicago Bulls
Before the start of the 1997/1998 season, Larue signed the Chicago Bulls agreement, where at that time Michael Jordan , Scotty Pippen , Dennis Rodman and Tony Kukoch shone , so he didn’t appear too often on the court, playing only fourteen games, and in the play off did not play at all, which did not stop him from getting his champion ring. After the lockout that took place before the start of the next season , he was one of the few players who stayed in the Bulls, in addition, after the leaders of the team left, he began to receive more playing time on the court (he played in 43 matches out of 50), but anyway mostly sat on the bench. At the beginning of the 1999/2000 season, Rusty spent only four games with the Bulls, after which he decided to return to the KBA, where he played for Idaho Stampid .
Jazz and Warriors
On January 28, 2002, Larue signed a contract with the Utah Jazz team, which included in the playoffs for the first time, but left the team at the end of the season. In 2003, he signed an agreement with the Boston Celtics , which was terminated before the start of the regular season, after which he moved to the Golden State Warriors , where he played only four matches and ended his sports career.
Before entering into agreements with Utah Jazz and Golden State Warriors clubs, Larue played in the NBA Development League for Asheville Altitude. In total, over the career in the NBA Republic of Lithuania, he played 53 games in which he scored 593 points (an average of 11.2 per game), made 126 rebounds, 132 assists, 60 interceptions and 6 block shots.
Foreign career
From October to November 1996 he played 6 matches for the Parisian Racing, who became the champion of France that season [2] . During the breaks of his performances in the NBA, Laryu twice went abroad, but in both cases he did not stay in the new teams for more than one season. First, he played in the championship of Russia , where he played for the club " CSKA (Moscow) ", which won the final fourth place. In 2002, he moved to the Apennine Peninsula , where he played in the Italian Championship for the Varese team, which finished twelfth.
Coaching career
After completing his professional career, he worked as the head coach of the basketball team at Greensboro College (2004-2005) and at the Forsyth Country Day High School in Winston-Salem's hometown (2005-2009). In May 2009, he got a job as an assistant Dino Gaudio in his native Wake Forest Dimon Dickons team, and in 2010 , after Gaudio left, he retained his position under the new head coach Jeff Bzdelike [3] . On June 30, 2015, Larue was appointed head coach of the West Forsyth school team, where Chris Paul , an NBA star on the Los Angeles Clippers team, studied at one time.
Notes
- ↑ Rusty LaRue . Wakeforestsports.com . CBS Interactive. Date of treatment September 1, 2013.
- ↑ [Playoffs LNB Le PSG Racing décroche son 1er titre de champion de France en 1997]
- ↑ LaRue joins Wake Forest basketball staff (inaccessible link) . Newsobserver.com . Triangle.com Date of treatment September 1, 2013. Archived May 15, 2009.