Mike Penberthy

Player information
Mike Penberthy
birthday	November 29, 1974
place of birth	Los Gatos , United States
size	191 cm
position	Shooting Guard
college	The Masters (NAIA)
Clubs as active
1993–1997 The Master's Mustangs ( NAIA ) 1997–1998 Hamburg Tigers 1998–1999 Quad City Thunder ( CBA ) 1999–2000 Hamburg Tigers 2000–2001 Los Angeles Lakers ( NBA ) 2002–2005 Basket Napoli 2005–2006 Alba Berlin 2006 –2007 Pallacanestro Reggiana 2007–2008 Snaidero Cucine UdineUnited States Germany United States Germany United States Italy Germany Italy Italy

Mike Penberthy (* 29. November 1974 in Los Gatos , California ) is a retired American basketball player who succeed in the NBA and in the German Basketball League and the Italian Lega Basket Serie A has played.

Penberthy studied at the Baptist The Master's College in Santa Clarita in his native US state. With the university team he took part in NAIA games. At Masters College, he is considered one of the best basketball players the college has ever produced, and headed the team's eternal basketball list. In addition, he was also in the categories of successful three-point throws and accuracy in free throws at the top of the Masters' list of best when he left university. In recognition of his services, he was made a member of the sports hall of fame at this university. He is married to Wendy, née Jones, who successfully played volleyball for this college.

In December 1997 he moved to the German 2nd basketball league for BCJ Hamburg and initially returned to his home country after the end of the season to play in the CBA . In the course of the 1998/99 season, however, he only played four appearances for the Quad City Thunder team. In 1999, however, he returned to Hamburg for BCJ Tigers, who had been promoted to BBL. In the 2000/01 season he made it to the Los Angeles Lakers squad via the NBA Summer League . His debut was not very spectacular: once the police did not let Penberthy into the Lakers training hall because the officers simply did not believe that he was a Lakers player. Penberthy was not used this season, but became NBA champions with no shares. In his second season he came to three missions. In January 2002 he moved back to Europe and rose to Serie A with the Baskets from Naples . After two more seasons for Pompea Napoli he returned to the BBL and played in the basketball Bundesliga season 2005/06 for Alba Berlin; with the team he was German cup winner . After a season he returned to Italy and played first in Reggio nell'Emilia and then in Udine before retiring in 2008.

After his playing career, Penberthy built a basketball training center in Valencia, California, and worked as a coach. From the 2014/15 season he worked for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA and took care of improving the throw of Minnesota's players. In the same role he worked for the New Orleans Pelicans in the 2018/19 season and for the Los Angeles Lakers from 2019 .

successes

2001 Master of the NBA with the Los Angeles Lakers (without commitment)
2002 promotion to the first Italian league with Pompea Napoli
2004/2005 best free-throw shooter and fourth-best basket shooter of the Lega A with Pompea Napoli
2005 Italian All Star, second best ULEB Cup scorer with Pompea Napoli
2006 German cup winner with ALBA Berlin

Web links

Mike Penberthy (Italian) - player profile on the statistics pages of Lega Basket Serie A
Mike Penberthy (Alba Berlin) - player profile on the statistics pages of the BBL
Mike Penberthy (English) - player profile on nba.com
Mike Penberthy - player profile on basketball-reference.com

Individual evidence

↑ Masters.edu: 2003-04 Charter Members - Mike Penberthy ´97 ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed August 29, 2010 @1@ 2

↑ "Rough, but cordial". Basketball: How Johanneum won in Weissenfels. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. December 15, 1997, accessed September 6, 2019 .

↑ 1998 Quad City Thunder Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .

↑ Identity Crisis ( Memento from July 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Sports Illustrated

↑ Mike Penberthy. In: Starting5. Retrieved September 6, 2019 (American English).

^ Former TMU guard Mike Penberthy hired as Lakers shooting coach. In: Santa Clarita Valley Signal. August 2, 2019, Retrieved September 6, 2019 (American English).

personal data
SURNAME	Penberthy, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Los Gatos , California, USA

[1] Masters.edu: 2003-04 Charter Members - Mike Penberthy ´97 ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed August 29, 2010 @1@ 2

[2] "Rough, but cordial". Basketball: How Johanneum won in Weissenfels. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. December 15, 1997, accessed September 6, 2019 .

[3] 1998 Quad City Thunder Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .

[security-4] Identity Crisis ( Memento from July 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Sports Illustrated

[5] Mike Penberthy. In: Starting5. Retrieved September 6, 2019 (American English).

[6] Former TMU guard Mike Penberthy hired as Lakers shooting coach. In: Santa Clarita Valley Signal. August 2, 2019, Retrieved September 6, 2019 (American English).