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Bill Sharman
William Walton Sharman (May 25, 1926 – October 25, 2013) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is mostly known for his time with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s, partnering with Bob Cousy in what was then considered the greatest backcourt duo of all time. As a coach, Sharman won titles in the ABL, ABA, and NBA, and is credited with introducing the now-ubiquitous morning shootaround.
Sharman was the first North American sports figure to win a championship as a player, coach, and executive. He was a 15-time NBA champion (having won four titles as a player with the Celtics, one as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, and ten as a Lakers executive), and a 17-time champion in basketball overall counting his ABL and ABA titles. Sharman is also a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, having been inducted in 1976 as a player, and in 2004 as a coach. Only John Wooden, Lenny Wilkens, Tommy Heinsohn and Bill Russell share this double honor.
Sharman is also notable for coaching the 1971–72 Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA record 33-game win streak, a then-record regular season 69–13 win–loss mark, and the first Lakers championship in Los Angeles.
Sharman was born on May 25, 1926, in Abilene, Texas. The family moved to California when he was a child, and he grew up in Lomita, California. He originally attended Narbonne High School where he was on a championship basketball team in ninth grade. As a sophomore, he began attending Porterville High School (PHS), a high school in the Central California city of Porterville, California, after his father obtained a newspaper dealership there. Narbonne's season had ended, and he joined PHS's basketball team and won another championship in the same year. This enabled Sharman to win five high school basketball championships in four years.
He was a 15-letter athlete at PHS, excelling in basketball and baseball, competing in track, and winning the state amateur tennis title. He graduated in 1944, and was named California's Outstanding Athlete. He gave credit to PHS for its contributing to his later success in life.
Sharman died one day before his induction into the inaugural class of the Porterville High Athletic Hall of Fame.
Sharman served during World War II from 1944 to 1946 in the US Navy, and was a graduate of the University of Southern California. He started on both the baseball and basketball teams. USC records describe him as playing on the school's baseball team for two years, in 1949 and 1950, and not as a member the 1948 USC Trojans baseball team.
Sharman played basketball for four years at USC (1946–1950). He averaged 15.9 points per game as a junior (1948–1949), and 18.6 as a senior (1949–1950). Sharman was twice selected All-Pacific Coast Conference and twice as the Conference's MVP. Following his senior year, Sharman was selected as a member of the 1950 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, first team, along with his future Boston Celtic teammate Bob Cousy.
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Bill Sharman
William Walton Sharman (May 25, 1926 – October 25, 2013) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is mostly known for his time with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s, partnering with Bob Cousy in what was then considered the greatest backcourt duo of all time. As a coach, Sharman won titles in the ABL, ABA, and NBA, and is credited with introducing the now-ubiquitous morning shootaround.
Sharman was the first North American sports figure to win a championship as a player, coach, and executive. He was a 15-time NBA champion (having won four titles as a player with the Celtics, one as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, and ten as a Lakers executive), and a 17-time champion in basketball overall counting his ABL and ABA titles. Sharman is also a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, having been inducted in 1976 as a player, and in 2004 as a coach. Only John Wooden, Lenny Wilkens, Tommy Heinsohn and Bill Russell share this double honor.
Sharman is also notable for coaching the 1971–72 Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA record 33-game win streak, a then-record regular season 69–13 win–loss mark, and the first Lakers championship in Los Angeles.
Sharman was born on May 25, 1926, in Abilene, Texas. The family moved to California when he was a child, and he grew up in Lomita, California. He originally attended Narbonne High School where he was on a championship basketball team in ninth grade. As a sophomore, he began attending Porterville High School (PHS), a high school in the Central California city of Porterville, California, after his father obtained a newspaper dealership there. Narbonne's season had ended, and he joined PHS's basketball team and won another championship in the same year. This enabled Sharman to win five high school basketball championships in four years.
He was a 15-letter athlete at PHS, excelling in basketball and baseball, competing in track, and winning the state amateur tennis title. He graduated in 1944, and was named California's Outstanding Athlete. He gave credit to PHS for its contributing to his later success in life.
Sharman died one day before his induction into the inaugural class of the Porterville High Athletic Hall of Fame.
Sharman served during World War II from 1944 to 1946 in the US Navy, and was a graduate of the University of Southern California. He started on both the baseball and basketball teams. USC records describe him as playing on the school's baseball team for two years, in 1949 and 1950, and not as a member the 1948 USC Trojans baseball team.
Sharman played basketball for four years at USC (1946–1950). He averaged 15.9 points per game as a junior (1948–1949), and 18.6 as a senior (1949–1950). Sharman was twice selected All-Pacific Coast Conference and twice as the Conference's MVP. Following his senior year, Sharman was selected as a member of the 1950 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, first team, along with his future Boston Celtic teammate Bob Cousy.
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