Detlef Schrempf

Detlef Schrempf
Schrempf in 2016
Personal information
Born (1963-01-21) 21 January 1963
Leverkusen, West Germany
Nationality German
Listed height 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Listed weight 214 lb (97 kg)
Career information
High school Centralia (Centralia, Washington)
College Washington (1981–1985)
NBA draft 1985 / Round: 1 / Pick: 8th overall
Selected by the Dallas Mavericks
Playing career 1985–2001
Position Small forward / Power forward
Number 32, 11, 12
Coaching career 2005–2007
Career history
As player:
1985–1989 Dallas Mavericks
1989–1993 Indiana Pacers
1993–1999 Seattle SuperSonics
1999–2001 Portland Trail Blazers
As coach:
2005–2007 Seattle SuperSonics (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points 15,761 (13.9 ppg)
Rebounds 7,023 (6.2 rpg)
Assists 3,833 (3.4 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Detlef Schrempf (born 21 January 1963) is a German-American retired professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies from 1981 to 1985, and was drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) by the Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the 1985 NBA draft, with the eighth overall pick. He was an All-NBA Third Team member in 1995, a three-time NBA All-Star and the NBA Sixth Man of the Year twice.

Schrempf played in the NBA for sixteen seasons, including stints with the Indiana Pacers, the Seattle SuperSonics, and the Portland Trail Blazers.[1] In 1996, he reached the NBA Finals with the SuperSonics. He played for the West German, and later German, national team in the 1984 and 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1983 and 1985 EuroBasket championships.

High school and college career

Detlef Schrempf was born in Leverkusen, a city in then West Germany. He attended Centralia High School in Centralia, Washington, for one year, leading the Tigers to the Class 3A (then AA) state championship in 1981[2] in his senior year by defeating the Blazers of Timberline High School.[3] After graduating he enrolled at the University of Washington, where he played basketball for the Washington Huskies men's basketball team from 1981 to 1985 under coach Marv Harshman.[4] With Schrempf, the Huskies won Pac-10 regular-season titles in 1984 and 1985 and made three postseason appearances, reaching the Sweet 16 in 1984. In his career at Washington, he scored 1,449 total points.

Schrempf was named to the All-Pac-10 First Team and The Sporting News All-America Second Team. He was inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame in 1995, and was also named to the University of Washington All-Century Team. While attending UW, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and majored in International Business.[3]

NBA career

Originally selected eighth overall by the Dallas Mavericks in the 1985 NBA draft, Schrempf became a regular in NBA rotations after being traded to the Indiana Pacers in exchange for veteran center Herb Williams in February 1989.[5] Playing for the Pacers, he finished second in the NBA with a .478 three-point percentage in 1986-87, and eventually worked his way into the starting lineup. In 1991 and 1992, he won consecutive NBA Sixth Man Awards. In the 1992–93 season, he was the only player in the NBA to finish in the top 25 in scoring (19.1 ppg), rebounding (9.5 rpg) and assists (6.0 apg),[6] and was selected to play in the National Basketball Association All-Star Game, the first of his three appearances.

Following the 1992–93 NBA season, Schrempf was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics for forward Derrick McKey and guard/forward Gerald Paddio. He ranked second in the NBA in three-point accuracy during the 1994–95 season with a 51.4 three-point field goal percentage. On a Sonics team that also featured Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, Sam Perkins, and Hersey Hawkins, Schrempf reached the NBA Finals in 1996, where they lost to Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls in six games. Schrempf became the first (and one of only two, to date, along with Dirk Nowitzki) German-born NBA player to reach the NBA Finals. While with the Sonics, Schrempf played in the NBA All-Star game in both 1995 and 1997.

Schrempf was released by the Sonics in 1999 and signed the same day by the Portland Trail Blazers, with whom he played until his retirement from professional basketball in 2001, playing in a total of 1,136 regular season games and 114 playoff games.

On January 24, 2006, the Seattle SuperSonics hired Schrempf as an assistant coach under Bob Hill, who coached Schrempf with the Indiana Pacers.[7]

International career

Schrempf played for the West Germany national team in the 1984 Olympics and the 1983 and 1985 EuroBaskets. In 1992, he played for the German Olympic team.[8]

Charitable work

Schrempf established the Detlef Schrempf Foundation in 1996 to benefit local charities. In January 2012, he won the Paul Allen Award for Citizenship (formerly the Seattle Sports Commission Sports Citizen of the Year) at the 77th annual Sports Star of the Year banquet in Seattle.[9] His foundation hosts the Detlef Schrempf Celebrity Golf Classic at McCormick Woods Golf Course in Port Orchard, Washington, every summer and has raised about $10 million for children's charities in the Pacific Northwest.[10]

Personal life

Schrempf is married to Mari Schrempf. They have two sons, Alex and Michael.[11] As of 2010, Schrempf is Business Development Officer at Coldstream Capital, a wealth management firm in Seattle.[12][13][14]

  • In 2004, Schrempf appeared in a commercial for IBM.
  • Schrempf made appearances in two episodes of the German soap opera Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten.
  • Schrempf had a cameo appearance in the hit television show, Married… with Children.
  • "Detlef Schrempf" is the name of a song by the musical group Band of Horses from their 2007 album Cease to Begin.[15]
  • He was cited as the "minister of comedy" for Genetically Engineered Superhuman High in an episode of the short-lived MTV series Clone High.
  • Schrempf appeared as himself in the documentary "Mania" (2008).[16]
  • Schrempf has appeared as himself in three episodes of the sitcom Parks and Recreation, "Telethon" (2010), "Li'l Sebastian" (2011), and "Ron and Tammys" (2011).[16]
  • In the show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Kimmy states in the episode "Kimmy's Roommate Lemonades!" that she used to babysit a girl in Indiana who was named Detlef Schrempf.
  • In the 30 Rock episode "The Aftermath" (2006) Jack Donaghy speaks on the phone in German with Schrempf before he is interrupted by Liz Lemon.

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

NBA statistics

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1985–86 Dallas 641215.1.451.429.7243.11.4.4.26.2
1986–87 Dallas 81521.1.472.478.7423.72.0.6.29.3
1987–88 Dallas 82419.4.456.156.7563.41.9.5.48.5
1988–89 Dallas 37122.8.426.125.7894.52.3.6.29.5
1988–89 Indiana 321231.4.514.263.7727.22.9.9.314.8
1989–90 Indiana 781833.0.516.354.8207.93.2.8.216.2
1990–91 Indiana 82332.1.520.375.8188.03.7.7.316.1
1991–92 Indiana 80432.6.536.324.8289.63.9.8.517.3
1992–93 Indiana 826037.8.476.154.8049.56.01.0.319.1
1993–94 Seattle 818033.7.493.324.7695.63.4.9.115.0
1994–95 Seattle 828235.2.523.514.8396.23.81.1.419.2
1995–96 Seattle 636034.9.486.408.7765.24.4.9.117.1
1996–97 Seattle 616035.9.492.354.8016.54.41.0.316.8
1997–98 Seattle 787835.2.487.415.8447.14.4.8.215.8
1998–99 Seattle 503935.3.472.395.8237.43.7.8.515.0
1999–00 Portland 77621.6.432.404.8334.32.6.5.27.5
2000–01 Portland 26015.3.411.375.8523.01.7.3.14.0
Career 1,13652429.6.491.384.8036.23.4.8.313.9
All-Star 3017.0.455.250.3333.72.3.0.37.7

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1986 Dallas 10012.0.464.000.6472.31.4.2.13.7
1987 Dallas 4024.3.371.000.4553.01.5.8.57.8
1988 Dallas 15018.3.465.333.7063.71.6.5.57.8
1990 Indiana 3341.7.489.000.9387.31.7.7.320.3
1991 Indiana 5035.8.474.000.8337.22.2.4.015.8
1992 Indiana 3040.0.383.500.89313.02.3.7.321.0
1993 Indiana 4441.3.463.000.7785.87.3.3.519.5
1994 Seattle 5534.8.520.333.8675.42.0.2.618.6
1995 Seattle 4438.3.404.556.7924.83.0.8.518.8
1996 Seattle 131337.6.475.368.7505.03.2.7.216.0
1997 Seattle 121238.3.472.552.8155.83.41.1.116.9
1998 Seattle 101037.5.512.143.8167.73.9.7.116.1
2000 Portland 15018.4.393.167.8303.52.0.3.05.6
2001 Portland 3010.7.667.667.6671.7.3.0.04.7
Career 1065129.3.465.373.7895.02.6.5.212.6

International statistics

Year Competition GP MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1983 EuroBasket
1984 Olympic Games
1985 EuroBasket
1992 Olympic Games
Career 71

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/news/2000/10/02/monday_roundup_ap/
  2. ↑ http://www.centralia.k12.wa.us/domain/118
  3. 1 2 "Flashback: Centralia H.S. took magical ride with Schrempf in 1981" The Seattle Times (March 22, 2005).
  4. ↑ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/wash/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/RecordBook.pdf
  5. ↑ "MAVERICKS TRADE SCHREMPF TO PACERS". 22 February 1989. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "NBA Players - NBA.com". Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "SONICS: Schrempf Perfect Fit For Sonics". www.nba.com. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "BARCELONA '92 OLYMPICS : DAILY REPORT : MEN'S BASKETBALL : Germany Comes Back to Beat Spain, 83-74". 27 July 1992. Retrieved 7 October 2018 – via LA Times.
  9. ↑ "NBA.com - Detlef Schrempf: Paul Allen Award Recipient". www.nba.com. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  10. ↑ "Detlef Schrempf Celebrity Golf Classic & Gala Auction" (June 24, 2011).
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-24. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
  12. ↑ "Detlef Schrempf Director of Business Development - Coldstream Wealth Management". Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  13. ↑ Sports Illustrated, August 2, 2010, Inside the NHL by Sarah Kwak, p.43, Published by Time Inc.
  14. ↑ User, Super. "About the Foundation". www.detlef.com. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  15. ↑ The Detlef Schrempf Generation Archived 2012-08-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  16. 1 2 "Detlef Schrempf". IMDb. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
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