Darvin Ham Sr: Basketball Career and Personal Life

 

Darvin Ham Sr., an American professional basketball coach and a former player, was born on July 23, 1973. He now serves as the head coach of the National Basketball Association’s Los Angeles Lakers (NBA). He competed for Texas Tech Red Raiders in college basketball before playing eight seasons in the NBA between 1996 and 2005. He won the NBA title in 2004 while playing for the Detroit Pistons. Before coming to the Philippines, Ham had a brief overseas experience in Spain and played in the NBA Development League in 2007 and 2008.

 

 

College Career

 

Before enrolling at Texas Tech in 1993, Ham attended Saginaw High School. While a Red Raider, he garnered national news for smashing the backboard on a dunk against UNC in the 1996 NCAA Tournament. Texas Tech’s momentum had altered with the dunk, and they advanced to the first Sweet 16 in school history. The slam was depicted on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

 

 

Lance Hughes, a former college classmate, won the NCAA slam dunk contest in 1995 before Ham did it in 1996. In 90 college games, he scored 8.1 points, 5.1 rebounds, 1.5 turnovers, and 1.0 assists while shooting.498 from the charity stripe and.597 from the field in 22.9 minutes per game.

 

Professional Playing Career

 

The Denver Nuggets acquired Ham on October 1 of that same year. Denver traded him to the Indiana Pacers for Jerome Allen in February 1997. The Detroit Pistons (2002), Atlanta Hawks (2002), Washington Wizards (1997), and Milwaukee Bucks all later signed Ham to free agency (1999). (2003). Throughout his eight-season, 417-game NBA career, he scored 2.7 points, 1.8 fouls, and 2.3 rebounds in 12.4 minutes of playing time per game. Despite having a field goal percentage of.518 and only four career 3-pointers made, he wasn’t much of a threat from outside.

 

Ham took part in the 1997 NBA Slam Dunk Contest and played for the 2004 NBA champion Detroit Pistons. His powerful slams became a crowd favorite with the Milwaukee Bucks, earning him the nn “Dunkin Darvin” and “Ham Slamwich,” which he stayed for the rest of his career. In his first postseason in Milwaukee, Ham scored 5 points, 1.6 blocks, and 5.8 rebounds per contest in the Bucks’ 3-2 loss to the eventual Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers in the first round. Ham developed the “Hammer play,” which has become a well-known NBA offensive tactic, during his time in Milwaukee.

Ham participated in the Dominican Republic program in 2015 and the Johannesburg, South Africa-based Basketball Without Borders program in 2005.

 

On January 17, 2006, the Talk ‘N Text Phone Pals of the Philippine Basketball Association signed Ham as a substitute import for Damian Cantrell. He played in just three games of the 2006 PBA Fiesta Conference Playoffs, averaging 16.7 points as the Phone Pals lost to Air21 Express in the series, 2-3.

 

Ham worked as a studio analyst for the Dallas Mavericks’ postseason run on Fox Sports Southwest in 2006. He later joined the Orlando Magic summer league club, competing in the Pepsi Pro Summer League from July 10 to July 14, 2006. Later, Ham made an appearance with the New Jersey Nets during the 2006 preseason.

 

In 2007, Ham spent the preseason with the Mavericks before being released on October 24. The Albuquerque Thunderbirds picked him third overall in the 2007 NBA D-League draft. The Thunderbirds moved Ham to the Austin Toros on April 4, 2008.

 

Coaching Career

 

Ham was named the Thunderbirds’ assistant coach in October 2008. Later, he led them as their coach. He joined Mike Brown’s Los Angeles Lakers team as an assistant coach in October 2011 and collaborates on player development with Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, and Dwight Howard.

 

Ham visited Venezuela in June 2011 as a SportsUnited Sports Envoy for the United States. Division of State. In this position, he worked with Kayte Christensen to plan basketball clinics for 300 young people from underprivileged neighborhoods and to meet with Venezuelan sports figures. Ham helped SportsUnited achieve its objective of fostering international inclusion and understanding via sports by doing this. Following these initiatives, he ran a second round of clinics for more than 200 young people in Myanmar. This was the first sporting event that the State Department sponsored with Myanmar.

 

In 2013, he became a member of the Atlanta Hawks coaching staff. In four consecutive postseason games, including their run to the Eastern Conference finals in 2015, he assisted the Hawks. In 2014 and 2015, Ham served as a member of the coaching persons that led the Hawks to a divisional title and the top seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs. He helped Atlanta go to the playoffs, and four of its starting five players got selections to the 2015 NBA All-Star team.

 

He moved to Milwaukee in 2018, where Mike Budenholzer triumphed in the NBA Coach of the Year title for the 2018–19 season. The team’s finest performance since 1972 was made possible by Ham. Ham assisted Milwaukee’s head coach in leading the team to its second NBA championship in 2020–21. Milwaukee defeated the Phoenix Suns in the 2021 NBA Finals in six games to win their first championship since 1971.

 

On June 3, 2022, Ham was chosen to lead the Los Angeles Lakers.

 

 

Personal Life

 

Ham is Wilmer Jones-Ham’s son, the city of Saginaw’s first female mayor who presided between 2001 to 2005.

 

Deneitra Ham is the wife of Darvin Ham. Both of them attended Texas Tech.

 

Through the 2021–22 season, Darvin Ham Jr., who played for Northwood University, served as an assistant coach for four years. Ham Jr. has joined the Cleveland Charge of the NBA G League as being an assistant coach as of the 2022–23 season.

 

Ham is a believer. “First, I would like to thank God, Ham remarked. I want to begin by stating that I was raised in a home with a strong spiritual faith and trust in God and his Son, Jesus Christ, because of where I came from. That spirit put in me as a child has helped me conquer everything in my life and the people around me.”

 

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