Vinny Del Negro

Vincent " Vinny " Joseph Del Negro ( born August 9, 1966 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. Among other things, the shooting guard for the San Antonio Spurs played in the American professional basketball league NBA. From 2008 to 2010 he was head coach of the Chicago Bulls. By the summer of 2013 he worked as head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Playing career

Vinny Del Negro was drafted in the NBA Draft in 1988 by the Sacramento Kings in 29th place. After just two seasons, he moved to Italy to Benetton Treviso.

In 1993 he went back to the NBA. He signed a contract as a free agent with the San Antonio Spurs, for whom he played for six years.

In February 1999 he was given as a free agent contract with the Milwaukee Bucks, but the charges him in June 2000 to the Golden State Warriors. But in January 2001 he was sent on. This time Vinny was traded to the Phoenix Suns.

The Suns gave Del Negro mid-November 2001 from the Los Angeles Clippers. However, he never played for the Clippers.

In a total of 771 regular season games in the NBA Del Negro scored on average 9.1 points and 3.2 assists per game. He led the Spurs in three seasons as the best free-throw shooter at: 1992 /93 ( 86.3 % ), 1995 /96 ( 83.2 %) and 1996/ 97 ( 86.8 %). The 1995/96 season was the best in his NBA career. Del Negro made ​​an average of 14.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.04 steals per game. In each of the 82 games he was in the starting lineup the Spurs.

After Vinny Del Negro finished his basketball career, he worked as a radio commentator for the Phoenix Suns. In July 2006 he was appointed by the team from Phoenix to Director of Player Personnel. On 28 August 2007, he was promoted from the Suns to the Assistant General Manager. The Chicago Bulls announced on June 11, surprisingly known to have Del Negro as their new head coach after he had indeed led the Bulls twice in the playoffs, but was there a failure in each case in the first round, he was in early May released 2010 of these.

For the 2010/2011 season Del Negro was introduced as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers. With the Clippers reached Del Negro both in 2012 as well as 2013, the playoffs, but could not as they had hoped lead the team into the area of ​​winning the title. After completion of the 2012/2013 season Del Negro was fired as head coach of the Clippers.