Mike O'Koren
O'Koren in 2006 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | February 7, 1958 Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 207 lb (94 kg) | ||||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||||
| High school | Hudson Catholic (Jersey City, New Jersey) | ||||||||||||||
| College | North Carolina (1976–1980) | ||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 1980: 1st round, 6th overall pick | ||||||||||||||
| Drafted by | New Jersey Nets | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1980–1988 | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Small forward | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 31, 25 | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1999–2016 | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
Playing | |||||||||||||||
| 1980–1986 | New Jersey Nets | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1987 | Washington Bullets | ||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | New Jersey Nets | ||||||||||||||
Coaching | |||||||||||||||
| 1999–2003 | New Jersey Nets (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2009 | Washington Wizards (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Philadelphia 76ers (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Rutgers (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
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| Career NBA statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Points | 3,355 (8.2 ppg) | ||||||||||||||
| Rebounds | 1,391 (3.4 rpg) | ||||||||||||||
| Assists | 856 (2.1 apg) | ||||||||||||||
| Stats at NBA.com | |||||||||||||||
| Stats at Basketball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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Michael F. O'Koren (born February 7, 1958) is an American former basketball player, coach and broadcaster originally from Jersey City, New Jersey. O'Koren was last an assistant coach at Rutgers University, serving under head coach Eddie Jordan.
A graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he played under Dean Smith, O'Koren was a first round draft pick of the New Jersey Nets in 1980 and played for the Nets and Washington Bullets in a career that ended in 1988.
After his retirement, O'Koren joined the Nets' broadcast team and remained there until 1999, when he joined Don Casey's staff as an assistant coach. He returned to Washington in 2003 when Eddie Jordan, with whom he had served in New Jersey, hired him to be the associate head coach of the Wizards. O'Koren also served as an assistant under Jordan with the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2009–10 season.
After he was let go by the 76ers, O'Koren returned to broadcasting and called high school games for FiOS1 New Jersey before Jordan hired him to serve on his staff at Rutgers in 2014.