Sleepy Floyd

Eric Augustus " Sleepy " Floyd ( born March 6, 1960 in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States ) is a former American professional basketball player for the New Jersey Nets, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. The 1.91 meter tall Floyd, due to its low-lying eyelids " Sleepy " ( dt: sleepy ) was called, played the positions of the point guard and shooting guard.

Career

Floyd was pulled in the NBA Draft in 1982 by the Nets to 13th position. There Floyd played only half a season before he was transferred to the Warriors. Floyd lived there four and a half years as a star border guard who possessed both the playmaker qualities of a point guard and a shooting guard union security. In those years, Floyd scored resistant 18 points per game and increased its original rate of 3.5 (1983 ) to 10.3 per game ( 1987). That year he also played for the first and only time in the All- Star game and led the then chronically unsuccessful Warriors for the first time in years in the playoffs.

Floyd was then transferred to the Rockets, and remained there five years, but could not quite match his Golden- State - times despite decent performances. In the autumn of his career, he was still playing at Spurs and the Nets again, before Floyd ceased at the age of 34.

Special performance

Floyd is known to NBA fans for an exceptional game in the 1987 playoffs against the eventual champions Los Angeles Lakers superstar Magic Johnson. Before Game 4 LA has already led 3-0 and was already in the 4th quarter 98-83 in front, and Floyd was until then the reigning " best defensive player in the NBA ," Michael Cooper, well cared for. But then scored against Floyd Cooper 29 points in just 11 minutes and led Golden State to a 128-121 victory. This is still the NBA playoff record.