Pack’s career highlights included dishing a career-high 22 assists in a game, dunking on Michael Jordan, playing on the Nuggets team that upset the top-seeded Seattle SuperSonics in the 1994 playoffs, and averaging a career-high 18.1 points for Washington during the 1995-96 season. That sparked an NBA playing career with the Blazers, Denver Nuggets, Washington Bullets, New Jersey Nets, Dallas Mavericks, New Orleans Hornets and Minnesota Timberwolves from 1991 to 2004. Pack was invited to the Portland Trail Blazers’ training camp in 1991 and beat out veteran Walter Davis for the last roster spot. Pack, however, went undrafted by the NBA in 1991. Next, the point guard landed a scholarship at USC for Hall of Fame coach George Raveling, where he averaged 13.4 points and 5.6 assists from 1989 to 1991. Pack wasn’t a McDonald’s All American or heralded recruit when he played basketball in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward at Alfred Lawless High School before going to Tyler Junior College in Texas. Robert Pack (right) went undrafted out of USC but went on to play 13 years in the NBA. “So, I thought it was a chance for me to grow as a coach and get an opportunity to be a head coach.”
“I’m always in the mode of teaching, especially people that really want to learn the game and then at the same time compete,” Pack said. Pack joins Al Harrington, who is an assistant coach with the South Africa Cape Town Tigers, as the only two former NBA players coaching in the 12-team league. Related Story Everything you need to know about the BAL 2022 Read now The BAL head-coaching opportunity is the first for Pack, who has been an NBA assistant for 12 seasons - most recently with the Washington Wizards from 2018 to 2021. REG opens play in the second season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) on Sunday here against Morocco’s AS Sale.
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Pack was named the head coach of the Rwandan professional basketball club Rwanda Energy Group (REG) on Feb. I’m thinking about right now and trying to have fun, enjoy this experience and have success.” I’m not thinking about anything in the past, what’s ahead. So right now, I’m fully locked into helping these guys reach the highest level, both individually and as a unit. They can’t get the best from me if my mind is elsewhere.
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“I don’t want to think about something else because then I can’t give all of myself to these young guys and take in the full experience of me being a head coach. “I’m here, and I want to take full advantage,” Pack told Andscape.
But as he gazed from his hotel balcony in the city of Kigali, Rwanda, the former NBA player and assistant coach said all he was focused on was the opportunity the Basketball Africa League gave him to finally be a head coach. DAKAR, Senegal – Perhaps one day Robert Pack will get his opportunity to be a head coach in the NBA or at an American college.
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