Wayman Tisdale

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Basketball player
Wayman Tisdale
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Wayman Tisdale, 2006
Player information
Full name Wayman Lawrence Tisdale
birthday June 9, 1964
place of birth Fort Worth (TX), United States
date of death May 15, 2009
Place of death Tulsa (OK), United States
size 205 cm
position Power forward
college Oklahoma
NBA draft 1985 , 2nd pick Indiana Pacers
Clubs as active
1982-1985 Oklahoma Sooners ( NCAA ) 1985-1989 Indiana Pacers 1989-1994 Sacramento Kings 1994-1997 Phoenix SunsUnited StatesUnited States
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National team
1983-1984 United States
Wayman Tisdale medal table

Basketball (men)

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Pan American Games
gold 1983 Caracas
Olympic games
gold 1984 Los Angeles

Wayman Lawrence Tisdale (born June 9, 1964 in Fort Worth , Texas , † May 15, 2009 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ) was an American basketball player and jazz musician . As a basketball player, Tisdale won a gold medal with the US Olympic selection at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . From 1985 to 1997 he played as a professional in the US professional league NBA . From 1995 the passionate bass guitar player released a total of eight albums by the time he died, which were able to place high in the Billboard jazz charts. In his death in 2009 he was in the Hall of Fame of the greatest basketball players of college sports organization NCAA added as well as a clinic of the University of Oklahoma named after him. Another album was released posthumously in 2010 and the United States Basketball Writers Association named their award for best female and male basketball freshman in the NCAA after Wayman Tisdale.

youth

Born in Texas, the Tisdales family later moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where his father served as a preacher for the Baptist Friendship Church . According to his own statements, his passion belonged initially to music and he only discovered the game of basketball relatively late. Even so, he developed into a talented basketball player in high school . In 1981 he met his future wife Regina, with whom he would later have four children.

college

To study Tisdale stayed in Oklahoma and studied at the University of Oklahoma, where he played for the college team Sooners in the Big Eight Conference, which later became part of the Big 12 Conference , the NCAA Division I. In all of his three seasons for the Sooners, Tisdale was named Conference Player of the Year and All-American . He was also able to lead the Sooners into the national finals every year , including in his last college season in 1985 to the quarter-finals Elite Eight , where you lost to the Tigers of the University of Memphis . A year later, the Tigers were withdrawn from the semi-finals due to violation of the NCAA regulations. Although Tisdale only completed three of the usual four college seasons, he belongs to an exclusive circle of 19 Division I basketball players who could collect more than 2,500 points and 1,000 rebounds simultaneously in their college career . He is considered the most important player in the history of the Sooners and holds the best of this college team with a total of 2,661 points (25.6 per game) and 1,048 rebounds (10.0 per game).

For the US national team, which until 1992 only competed with a selection of college players without professionals, he took part in the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela, and at the 1984 Olympics in his own country. In both events, the US selection was able to win the tournament and the gold medal. At the 1984 Olympics he played with Michael Jordan , Patrick Ewing and Sam Perkins , who would later be his best man.

Professional in the NBA

After Patrick Ewing, Tisdale was selected second in the 1985 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers. The franchise, which was very successful in the previous league ABA, was not very successful in the NBA and was only able to qualify for the play-offs once in 1987 with Tisdale in their team , in which they were eliminated in the first round. In February 1989 he was traded to the Sacramento Kings, where he initially had his most productive season in the NBA with 22.3 points and 7.7 rebounds per game in the 1989/90 season. Although from 1991 still reinforced with Mitch Richmond , the Kings were quite unsuccessful and did not achieve 30 wins in 82 season games per season until 1994 and were thus without a chance in achieving a play-off placement. In 1994 the contract was canceled and Tisdale was signed by the Phoenix Suns, who were 1993 NBA finalists. Although the Suns were each one of the best teams in the Western Conference , they were eliminated from 1995 to 1997 before reaching the NBA semifinals, the so-called Conference Finals . In 1997 Tisdale retired as a professional basketball player to devote himself entirely to music.

Musician

Tisdale was also active as a bassist in his Fifth Quarter Band . Back in 1995, Tisdale had received a record deal with MoJazz while he was still playing basketball and released his first album that year. From 1996 seven more albums followed until 2008 in the spectrum between contemporary and smooth jazz ; the album Presents 21 Days (2003) is rooted in gospel music . The 2006 album Way Up! featured prominent musicians such as Jeff Lorber , Bob James , Kirk Whalum , Dave Koz and George Duke . He was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame for his musical achievements .

Sickness and death

After a fall and broken leg, a bone tumor was discovered near Tisdale in early 2007 . After unsuccessful chemotherapy , it was decided in summer 2008 to amputate part of the right leg of the former professional athlete . Tisdale got along well with the prosthesis made afterwards . Based on this experience, Tisdale set up a foundation to support amputees with the fitting of prostheses, as the costs for this are not always covered by health insurance companies. Shortly before his death, he complained of esophagitis , which led to severe weight loss. He died on May 15, 2009 in a hospital in Tulsa, where he had previously been admitted with breathing problems. After he had previously been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame of the NCAA, his alma mater subsequently named a clinic after her former student. In addition, the American Basketball Sports Journalists Association named their awards for the best female and male college basketball newbie after Tisdale.

Discography

  • Power Forward (1995)
  • In The Zone (1996)
  • Decisions (1998)
  • Face to Face (2001)
  • Presents 21 Days (2003)
  • Hang Time (2004)
  • Way up! (2006)
  • Rebound (2008)
  • "Fonk Record: Featuring Tiz & Fonkie Planetarians" (2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Billboard. By : Wayman Tisdale Album & Song Chart History | Billboard.com , chronicle of chart positions on billboard.com, accessed on August 9, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c Sport.ESPN.Go.com: Tisdale reaches for his biggest rebound (English), article by Anna K. Clemmons on the ESPN website of December 3, 2008, accessed on August 9, 2011
  3. ↑ NCAA.org: 2010-11 NCAA Men's Basketball Division I Records , section '2,000 POINTS & 1,000 REBOUNDS', p. 18, PDF file (969 KB), accessed August 9, 2011
  4. ↑ 2010-11 Men's Basketball Guide (English), p. 118, accessed on August 9, 2011
  5. ↑ a b CBSSports.com: great former Sooners, NBA player Tisdale it after battle with cancer (English), articles of 15 May 2009 on the websites of CBS Sports, accessed 9 August 2011
  6. ↑ Thom Jurek emphasizes in his review of Allmusic Tisdale's fluid bass playing, which is almost reminiscent of a lead guitar. See discussion of Way Up! at Allmusic
  7. ↑ OKJazz.org: Hall of Fame Inductees - Wayman Tisdale (English), accessed 9 August 2011
  8. ↑ CollegeBasketballExperience.com: Inductees with last name beginning with 'T' listed by class year ( Memento of August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on August 9, 2011
  9. ↑ OU.edu: OU WAYMAN TISDALE SPECIALTY HEALTH CENTER GROUNDBREAKING SCHEDULED FOR JAN. 25 ( Memento of November 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the OU School of Medicine of January 25, 2010, PDF file (36 KB), accessed on August 9, 2011
  10. ↑ Sportswriters.net: USBWA'S FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD TO BE NAMED FOR WAYMAN TISDALE , USBWA press release of July 26, 2010, accessed on August 9, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Tisdale, Wayman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tisdale, Wayman Lawrence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Worth , Texas
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 2009
Place of death Tulsa , Oklahoma