Reggie Geary
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| Personal information | |
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| Born | August 31, 1973 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Listed weight | 187 lb (85 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Mater Dei (Santa Ana, California) |
| College | Arizona (1992–1996) |
| NBA draft | 1996: 2nd round, 56th overall pick |
| Drafted by | Cleveland Cavaliers |
| Playing career | 1996–2004 |
| Position | Point guard |
| Number | 2, 4 |
| Coaching career | 2007–present |
| Career history | |
Playing | |
| 1996–1997 | Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 1997–1998 | San Antonio Spurs |
| 1998–1999 | Quad City Thunder |
| 1999–2000 | Idaho Stampede |
| 2000–2001 | Bnei Herzliya |
| 2001–2002 | Porto |
| 2002–2003 | JL Bourg-en-Bresse |
| 2003–2004 | BC Kyiv |
Coaching | |
| 2007–2008 | Anaheim Arsenal |
| 2008–2009 | Arizona Wildcats (assistant) |
| 2009–2011 | SMU Mustangs (assistant) |
| 2011–2013 | Yokohama B-Corsairs |
| 2013–2015 | Chiba Jets |
| 2015–2017 | Mitsubishi Diamond Dolphins Nagoya |
| Career highlights | |
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| Career NBA statistics | |
| Points | 209 (2.1 ppg) |
| Assists | 110 (1.1 apg) |
| Stats at NBA.com | |
| Stats at Basketball Reference | |
Reggie Elliot Geary (born August 31, 1973) is an American former professional basketball guard[1] for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers (1996–97) and San Antonio Spurs (1997–98). Since 2011 he has coached several teams in Japan's professional basketball leagues.[2][3]
Geary played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats under head coach Lute Olson. As a player at Arizona, the Wildcats had a 104–23 (.819) record, two Pac-10 Conference championships, and an appearance in the 1994 Final Four. He remains Arizona's fourth all-time steals leader (208) and sixth all-time leader in assists (560). Aside from his NBA career, Geary played two seasons in the Continental Basketball Association (1998 to 2000), and in Israel, Portugal, France and Ukraine.[4] He played with the jersey number 2 or 4.
In 2005, Geary became recruiting and basketball operations coordinator at Arizona, working under Lute Olson.[4] He then became head coach of the NBA D-League's Anaheim Arsenal for 18 months, before returning to Olson's staff as an assistant coach in 2008.[5][6] From 2009 to 2011, Geary was an assistant coach at Southern Methodist University under head coach Matt Doherty.[7]
In 2012, Geary was named coach of the year while at the helm for the Japanese professional basketball league's Yokohama B-Corsairs.[3] The following season, Geary led the B-Corsairs to the league title, becoming the league's first foreign-born coach to win the championship.[8]
He left the B-Corsairs at the end of the 2012–13 season due to the club's financial difficulties. In July 2013 he signed to coach the Chiba Jets, a team which was moving from the bj-league to the National Basketball League during the same off-season.[9] After an 18–36 record in 2013–14, Geary led the Jets to the NBL playoffs in 2014–15 with a 34–20 record.[10]
Geary's contract with the Jets was not renewed at the end of the 2014–15 season.[10] He signed with the Mitsubishi Diamond Dolphins Nagoya of the NBL in June 2015 and led the team to a seventh-place 27–28 record in the 2015–16 season, losing in the first round of the playoffs to Link Tochigi Brex.[11][12]