Grant Henry Hill (born October 5, 1972) is a former American basketball player. She is currently hosting NBA TV NBA Inside Stuff . Hill played for four teams in his professional career at the National Basketball Association (NBA); Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns, and Los Angeles Clippers.
Parents Hill is a retired NFL Pro Bowl who ran back to Calvin Hill and Janet Hill. He and his father are Rookies of the Year in their respective sports; Hill in the NBA in 1995 (shared with Jason Kidd), and his father in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys in 1969.
While playing college basketball at Duke, he was an ACC Player of 1994, two NCAA All-American, and two-time NCAA champion. As a professional he was the 1995 NBA Rookie of the Year, and was a NBA All-Star player, five-time All-NBA, and three-time winner of the NBA Sportsmanship Award.
Throughout his college career and at the beginning of his years with the Detroit Pistons, Hill is widely regarded as one of the best players in the game, often leading his team in points, rebounds, and assists. Touted as one of the best players in Duke history, many say he is one of the greatest college basketball players of his day. After his first six seasons with the Pistons, where he averaged 21.6 points, 7.9 rebounds and 6.3 assists, the next twelve seasons were mostly injured, when he averaged just 13.1 points, 4 , 7 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game. On June 1, 2013, after 19 years in the league, Hill announced his retirement from the NBA. Hill and Tony Ressler officially bought the Atlanta Hawks on June 24, 2015 with an estimated $ 730 million - $ 850 million.
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Higher Education
When the time came to choose college, Hill's mother told Fox Sports Beyond the Glory that she wanted her to attend Georgetown, while her father preferred the University of North Carolina. Hill decided to attend Duke University, playing four years with Blue Devils, winning national titles in 1991 and 1992. Duke became the first Division I program to win consecutive titles since UCLA in 1973. Despite losing the two biggest contributors to the Blue Devils, Christian Laettner (in 1992) and Bobby Hurley (who both played in the NBA with Hill and Laettner later became teammates at the Detroit Pistons), Hill led the Duke to the championship game once again in 1994, but lost to Razorback Arkansas. Hill won the Henry Iba Corinthian Award as the nation's top defensive player in 1993, and in 1994 he was the ACC Player of the Year. During his college career, Hill became the first player in ACC's history to garner more than 1,900 points, 700 rebounds, 400 assists, 200 steals, and 100 blocked shots. As a result of his successful academic career, he became the eighth player in Duke's history to have his back number (33) retired. After his first season at Duke, Hill played in the US bronze medal team at the 1991 Pan American Games, held in Havana, Cuba.
Hill was also widely known for his role in a desperate game in the NCAA regional tournament finals against Kentucky in 1992, regarded by many as one of the greatest college basketball games of all time. With the Duke down 103-102 in extra time and 2.1 seconds left after Kentucky's Sean Woods hit a buoy, an Unguarded Hill circled the ball over 75 feet on the field into Laettner's hand, which dribbled once and spun before pulling up to make the match-winning jumper from outside the free throw line when the time expires.
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NBA Career and Team USA (1994-2013)
Detroit Pistons (1994-2000)Grant Hill was composed by the Detroit Pistons with the third pick in the NBA draft after graduating from Duke in 1994. In his first season, he averaged 19.9 points, 6.4 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 1.77 steals per game, and became the first Pistons rookie since Isiah Thomas in 1981-82 to score 1000 points. Hill eventually shared the NBA Rookie of the Year award with Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks, becoming the first Piston since Dave Bing in 1966-67 to win the award. Hill also won the Rookie of the Year Award. He was named for the NBA First Team in 1997, and all of the NBA Second Team in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Hill also regularly plays in the NBA All-Star Game, where he made history by becoming the first rookie to lead voting NBA All-Star fans in (1994-1995) with 1,289,585 votes, narrowly defeating Shaquille O'Neal. In addition, he became the first rookie in one of four major professional sports leagues to lead all-star fan voting.
In his second season (1995-96), he once again leads an All-Star fan vote, this time beating Michael Jordan (Jordan's first All-Star game after returning since retiring in 1993). During the 1995-96 season, Hill showed off his abilities by leading the NBA in a triple-double (10). She also won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta as a member of the US men's basketball team, where she has the highest average score of the team (9.7) and leads the team in stealing (18). In the 1996-97 season, Hill averaged 21.4 points, 9.0 rebounds, 7.3 assists, and 1.8 steals per game. He became the first player since Larry Bird in 1989-90 to average 20 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists in a single season, an achievement that has not been duplicated until Russell Westbrook averaged a triple-double in the 2016-17 NBA season. Once again, Hill leads the league in a triple-double, where his triple-triple trip represents 35 percent of the total triple-double league of the season. He is the Player of the Month league for January and also awarded the NBA's IBM Award, awarded to players with the largest statistical contribution to his team. He finished third in the MVP voting, behind Karl Malone and Michael Jordan.
Just like Scottie Pippen with the Bulls, Hill assumes the role of a "point forward" in Detroit, running the Pistons offense. As a result, between the 1995-96 and 1998-99 NBA seasons, Hill is the league leader in assists per game among non-keepers throughout the four seasons. In the short 1999 season, as he led his team in points, rebounds and assists for the third time, Hill joined Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor as the only players in NBA history to lead their teams in goals, rebounds and help over once. Hill and Chamberlain are the only two players in league history to lead their teams in points, rebounds and assists per game three times. Hill was elected to play at the FIBA ​​World Championship in 1998, but ultimately no NBA players were playing in this tournament because of the lockout.
In the 1999-2000 season, Hill averaged 25.8 points, while snapping 49% of the field, the third highest average of the season, behind MVP Shaquille O'Neal and Allen Iverson. He averaged 6.6 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game. However, despite Hill's individual achievements in Detroit, the Pistons never made it far in the playoffs, lost in the first half (1996, 1997 and 1999), or missed the playoffs entirely in the 1994-95 and 1997-98 seasons. The playoff of 2000 will not be different. On April 15, 2000, 7 days before the start of the playoffs, Hill dislocated his left ankle in a match against the Philadelphia 76ers. He continued playing until the first round of playoffs against the Miami Heat, where his injured ankle worsened and Hill was forced to leave halfway through game 2. Finally, the Heat swept the Pistons 3-0. Hill was originally chosen for the 2000 US Olympic team, but could not play because of an ankle injury, which proved to be a major responsibility for years to come.
After the first six seasons of his career, before his ankle injury, Hill had a total of 9,393 points, 3,417 rebounds, and 2,720 assists. Oscar Robertson, Bird, and LeBron James are the only three players in league history to eclipse these numbers after their first six seasons.
Orlando Magic (2000-2007)
As an unlimited free agent, Hill has plans to sign with Orlando Magic. On August 3, 2000, however, a sign-and-trade agreement allowed Hill to accept a slightly more profitable contract while Detroit received at least some compensation for losing him. The Pistons signed Hill to a seven-year contract, $ 92.8 million and traded it to Orlando for Chucky Atkins and Ben Wallace. Magic hopes he will work with the novice superstar Tracy McGrady, who was out of the Toronto Raptors at the time, to restore Orlando among the NBA elite. But Hill was hampered by an ankle injury, playing in just four games in his first season with Magic, 14 games in second and 29 in third. He was forced to sit in his fourth year with Orlando (2003-04). Meanwhile, the Pistons, who had beaten the Magic in the 2003 playoffs, but eventually lost to the New Jersey Nets in the Eastern Conference Final, won the championship the following year in 2004.
In March 2003, Hill underwent a major surgical procedure in which the doctor broke his ankle back and rearranged his leg bone. Five days after the surgery, Hill experienced a fever and a seizure of 104.5 ° C (40.3 ° C), and was rushed to the hospital. The doctor raised the splint around his ankles and discovered that Hill had a potentially deadly infection of methicillin Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). She was hospitalized for a week and had to take intravenous antibiotics for six months.
The 2004-05 season saw the return of the "old" Grant Hill, who was very popular early in his career. Hill, though hampered by a bruised left shin that caused him to lose some games, started and played 67 games for Magic, more than the combined number of games he played for the Magic four seasons earlier. He was crowned Eastern Conference player this week for the week between November 15-21, 2004. During the season, Hill scored an average of 19.7 points per game in the 0.550 area percentage. Fans picked him an All-Star starter again, and he led the Eastern All-Star Team to victory over the West. In addition, at the end of the season, Hill was awarded the Joe Dumars Cup awarded to the NBA Sportsmanship Award Winner.
During the 2005-06 season, Hill was once again frequently injured with a groin injury that kept him out during the first half of the season, confining him to 21 games. He got a sports hernia caused by uneven pressure on Hill's feet when he ran, due to fears that he could aggravate the wound on his left ankle if it gets too much pressure. Hill underwent surgery for a hernia and stated that he would consider retiring if he had to undergo surgery again.
In the 2006-07 season, Hill returned from injury despite rumors surrounding his retirement. Hill received ankle rotation therapy from a specialist in Vancouver, BC during off-season and stated that he had gained a lot of movement in his left ankle. Hill returned to the Magic lineup, starting from the position of the shooting guard. Despite having a problem with injuries to his left knee and a tendon in his left ankle, Hill managed to play 65 games, two shorter than the number of games he played during a season as a member of the Magic. He finished the season with an average of 14.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game. This season will see Hill return to the playoffs for the first time since 2000, his first playoff appearance with the Magic. Seed 8 Magic will meet Hill's old team, the Detroit Pistons, in the first round. The vast Pistons playoff experience will prevail over inexperienced Magic, who has not seen significant post-season action for several years, and despite having some close games, the series will end with a 4-0 sweep of the Pistons, leaving Hill decide whether to return for the 2007-08 season with Magic, enter with another team, or retire.
Phoenix Suns (2007-2012)
>Hill became an unlimited free agent on July 1, 2007. On July 5, Hill's agent, Lon Babby, said Hill intends to sign a contract with the Phoenix Suns on July 11 (first day free agents can officially sign the contract). Hill earned $ 1.83 million for 2007-08 with a player option of $ 1.97 million for the following year. Hill was named captain along with Steve Nash. Hill was granted permission by the Suns Ring of Honor member, Alvan Adams, to wear the number 33 that he knew the Suns. Hill adapts well to the Sun's up-tempo style, averaging a double figure in points as a major role player for Phoenix in the early months of the 2007-08 season. He played in the team's first 34 games before an emergency appendage on January 9, 2008, keeping him out for two weeks. Despite being distracted by several injuries throughout the season, Hill has had his first 70 season games since leaving Detroit, averaging 13.1 ppg, 5.0 rpg and 2.9 apg in the process.
Playing for the Phoenix Suns in the 2008-2009 season, Hill appeared in all 82 games for the first time in his career and averaged 12.0 ppg, 4.90 rpg and 2.3 apg, scored 27 points and 10 rebounds in the season's end. Suns.
On July 10, 2009, the Associated Press reported that Hill decided to re-sign with the Phoenix Suns for a 2-year contract, despite an offer from the New York Knicks for a full mid-sized exclusion and the Boston Celtics offering Hill a two-year Exclusion. The first year of the contract is believed to be worth about $ 3 million with a second year in Hill option.
In 2010 the Phoenix Suns advanced to the Western Conference Semifinals, marking Hill's first playoff victory, and making it the first NBA player in history to win its first playoff series after 15 years in the league. After sweeping the San Antonio Spurs 4-0, the Suns then moved into the Western Conference Finals to face the Los Angeles Lakers, but lost six games (4-2).
In 2010, he was voted the brightest athlete in sports by Sports News .
On 8 June Hill exercised his choice for the 2010-11 season. The Suns underwent two major changes in 2010-11. During the pre-season team, Amar'e Stoudemire left for New York while Hedo TÃÆ'¼rko? Lu, Josh Childress and Judge Warrick join the Suns; within a year they are also traded for three other players. Hill became one of the seven NBA players of all time with an average of 13 points or more at the age of 38 years or more. On January 15, 2011, Hill went through 16,000 career points in a win over the Portland Trail Blazers.
On December 9, 2011, Hill decided to stay with the Phoenix Suns for one year, receiving a contract worth $ 6.5 million. At the end of the 2011-12 season, Hill has reached 17,000 career points, ending the 78th season on the all-time NBA scorers list (82 NBA/ABA), 79 in career assistances (83), and 66 in stealing career (71).
Los Angeles Clippers (2012-2013) Retirement (2013)
On June 1, 2013, Hill announced his retirement from professional basketball after 19 seasons in the NBA. Hill later joined NBA TV to become an analyst.
Post-NBA careers
On June 24, 2015, a deal was approved by the NBA Board of Governors to sell the Hawks Atlanta franchise to a group led by Tony Ressler, which included Hill, for $ 850 million. On March 31, 2018, Hill will be named as a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Sponsorship and paid support
- In the 1990s, one of Sprite's longest running sprite ads was "Grant Hill Drinks Sprite" (overlapping your "Obey Your Thirst" campaign), where Hill's ability, and the importance of Sprite in giving it his ability, which is exaggerated.
- Hill is a spokesperson for McDonald's restaurants, watchmaker TAG Heuer and sporting company Fila, and then Adidas and Nike.
- Beginning 2014, Hill also appeared in an ad for AT & T along with his wife, Tamia.
On television and movies
- In 1995, Hill appeared in an episode of the FOX sitcom Living Single . In the episode, Hill (pictured herself) has a whirlwind romance with the owner of magazine/publisher Khadijah James (Queen Latifah).
- In 1998, she was in the Home Improvement episode at the event in Tool Tools event.
- Grant Hill is featured in the song video "Rockstar" by Nickelback.
- Hill presents the award at the MTV Video Music Awards 1995 with talk show host Ricki Lake.
- March 13, 2011, the filming of ESPN 30 to 30 The Fab Five documentary sparked national outrage, leading to a series of media exchanges between members of the press and NCAA players in such forums The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post .
- In 2015, Hill was appointed head of the preliminary team for joint coverage of CBS and Turner Sports at the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, along with supporters of March Madness Jim Nantz and Bill Raftery.
Personal life
In Detroit, Michigan, he was introduced to Canadian singer Tamia by Anita Baker. Hill and Tamia married on July 24, 1999. Her daughter, Myla Grace Hill, was born on January 23, 2002. On August 9, 2007, Tamia gave birth to their second daughter, Lael Rose Hill.
In 2003, Hill developed a life-threatening methicillin-staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection, which took him six months to recover. Since then he has been an advocate for the awareness and prevention of MRSA and has appeared in public service announcements for Stop MRSA Now !, a nonprofit organization.
Grant Hill holds a bachelor's degree from Duke University with a double major in history and political science.
Charity
- Hill has been Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Special Olympic Summer Games in 1999 held in Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
- Grant Hill, her mother Janet Hill and grandmother Vivian McDonald set up a scholarship at Dillard University in New Orleans. The scholarship is to commemorate Hill's grandfather, who supports this University consistently.
- Hill is displayed on the "READ" posters that support library, literacy, and recommended reading.
- Hill contributed to the nursery center founded by his father, Calvin Hill, in New Haven, Connecticut in 1972, by donating funds. This day care center was established after Calvin graduated from Yale University and his goal is to help children and families in the local community.
- Hill is funding an organization in her hometown of Reston, Virginia, which helps needy students of all ages to pursue education.
Other interests
- Hill has a large collection of African-American art, centered on Romare Bearden and Elizabeth Catlett. Selection of 46 works from the collection was featured in a traveling exhibition at a number of American museums from 2003 to 2006. The exhibit was last shown at the Nasher Museum of Art at alma mater Hill, Duke University.
- Hill has been in a relationship with the Democrats. On the night Hill was designed in the NBA, he received a congratulatory phone call from US President Bill Clinton. Hill openly supported John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 and President Barack Obama's bid in 2008.
NBA career statistics
Regular season
Playoffs
See also
- List of National Basketball Association career matches played
- List of the oldest and youngest National Basketball Association players
References
External links
- Career statistics and player information from NBA.com, or Basketball-Reference.com
- GrantHill.com - Official Site
- Grant Hill YouTube Flood Channel
- An interview with Michael Tillery from The Starting Five
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