Richard Morton

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Richard Lee Morton (born February 2,  1966 in San Francisco ) is a retired American basketball player .

career

From 1984 to 1988, the 1.96 meter tall Morton was a player from California State University, Fullerton . In the playing years 1986/87 (18.4 points / game) and 1987/88 (22.0 points / game) he was the best goal scorer of the university team. With a total of 1705 points, he was at the end of his four years at California State University, Fullerton in second place on the college's all-time basket hunter list. He had hit 40.2 percent of his three-point throws between 1984 and 1988 and thus achieved a higher hit rate than any player from "Cal State Fullerton" before him. Morton reached his high point as a college player in January 1988 when he posted 38 points in one game.

In October 1988, Morton was signed by the Indiana Pacers NBA team  . He was used in two NBA games during the 1988/89 season and averaged three points per game. The breakthrough did not come in the NBA. In 1989 he was signed by another NBA team, the Golden State Warriors , but in late October 1989 removed from the roster. He was not used for the Californians. He gained his first experience abroad in 1989 as a player for Dow New Plymouth in New Zealand .

Morton played with various CBA teams with interruptions until 1994 . He delivered the strongest attack performances in the US league in the colors of the San Jose Jammers  : In the 1990/91 game year he led the Californians with an average of 27.0 points per match. 1991/92 he was in the service of the Belgian first division club Charleroi .

In 1994 he went to Steiner Bayreuth in the basketball league , where he was the first former NBA player in the ranks of Upper Franconia. For two years in Bayreuth, he and Derrick Taylor formed  an extremely dangerous basketball team in the "small positions". In the course of the 1994/95 season, Morton scored 21.6 and 1995/96 22.0 points per match and with these values ​​was among the top five basket shooters in the Bundesliga. From 1996 to 1998 Morton was also under contract with Rhöndorfer TV in the Bundesliga. Here Steven Key became his congenial partner, the two were referred to as the "supporting pillars" of the team from Bad Honnef . In the 1996/97 season, Morton and Key were significantly involved in Rhöndorf finishing the Bundesliga main round as runner-up, in the quarter-finals they were eliminated by Bonn  . Morton also competed in the European Cup with Bayreuth and Rhöndorf.

For the 1998/99 season Morton went back to the Belgian first division club Charleroi. He was Belgian champion and cup winner with the team in 1999. From the end of July 1999 to the end of October 1999 he was suspended for a doping offense. In the 1999/2000 season the winger was under contract with Athlon Ieper (also Belgium's first division). In his late 30s, Morton was playing in a basketball league in the greater San Francisco area.

As a coach, Morton supervised the San Francisco Pilots in the US league ABA in the 2005/06 season. He coached the student team at Deer Valley High School in Antioch, California , in the late 2000s . In 2010 he was temporarily assistant coach with the Reno Bighorns in the NBA D-League .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Summary for 1986-87. In: fullertontitans.com. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Statistics Summary for 1987-88. In: fullertontitans.com. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Cal State Fullerton Men's Basketball 2007-08 Media Guide. In: California State University, Fullerton. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  4. ^ The Colleges: Richard Morton Signs Contract With Pacers. October 6, 1988. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Richard Morton. In: NBA.COM. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ Richard Morton Player Profile, Golden State Warriors, NBA Stats, NCAA Stats, Game Logs, Bests, Awards - RealGM. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Area Roundup: 'Pro Stars' Game Set Aug. 18 at UCI. August 4, 1989, Retrieved May 26, 2020 (American English).
  8. ↑ Richard Morton Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ 1990 San Jose Jammers Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ A L'AFFICHE DE NOS SALLES: LE SILENCE DES ANNEAUX UNE LIGUE FORTE ET COHERENTE SVP. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (French).
  11. ^ Dino Reisner: Because for the first time former NBA players moved to Bayreuth . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 133, 134 .
  12. ↑ Ulrich Loke: Dragons that don't just burn for coal . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 5, 1997, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 12 ( taz.de [accessed on May 26, 2020]).
  13. ↑ history. In: Dragons Rhöndorf. Retrieved on May 26, 2020 (German).
  14. ^ Richard Lee Morton | European Cup Radivoj Korac (1996) | FIBA Europe. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Zware thuisnederlaag voor Huygen. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (Flemish).
  16. ↑ ATHLON IEPER. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (Flemish).
  17. ↑ Not ready to take final shot. In: East Bay Times. July 7, 2005, accessed May 26, 2020 (American English).
  18. ↑ Tom FitzGerald: Not exactly friendly skies for the pilots / Owner, paychecks vanish. February 1, 2006, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  19. ^ Will McCulloch: Hall of Fame adds classy class. April 8, 2008, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  20. ^ Two Former Gaels To Participate in Reno Bighorn's Tryout. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Morton, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morton, Richard Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco