How tall is Bonzi Wells

Gawen DeAngelo “Bonzi” Wells (born September 28, 1976) is an American speculative basketball coach and former professional artist who is currently an assistant coach at Georgia Tech and back was head coach at LeMoyne-Owen. He played learned basketball at Ball State University and was drafted in the 1998 NBA draft. In the NBA, Wells played for five teams from 1998 to 2008: the Portland Trail Blazers, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets, and New Orleans Hornets.

Wells attended Muncie Central High School and next went on to show at Ball State University, also in Muncie. There he was named the Mid-American Conference Freshman Player of the Year in the 1995-96 season, while helping the Cardinals to the NCAA Tournament. Wells broke Ron Harper’s conference tape of 2,377 career points on a one-handed dunk adjacent to Northern Illinois on February 21, 1998. The dunk sent the sell-out crowd at University Arena into a frenzy. A timeout was suddenly called and Wells was awarded the game ball by Ball State president John Worthen. Wells then led the Mid-American Conference in steals in 1998 in the same way as 73, averaging 3.55 steals in 29 games. Wells led the conference in steals during everything four years at Ball State and finished his career as the Mid-American Conference all-time career chronicles in points (2,485) and steals (347). While at Ball State he averaged 21.4 PPG, 3 SPG, and 7.3 RPG. He was fixed eleventh overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 1998 NBA draft, but he never played for the Pistons as his draft rights were traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for the Blazers’ 1999 first round pick. Six years far ahead Ball State would retire his jersey number, 42, in greeting of his achievements.

As a swingman in Portland, Wells achieved career highs in scoring and bigger somewhat on defense, and picked in the works what some would call a bad-boy image, while sharing the role of co-captain past Rasheed Wallace. Bonzi, however, did have his allowance of on- and off-court incidents. During his tenure once the Blazers, Bonzi was suspended for two games for publicly cursing at his coach after swine taken out of a game. Bonzi was after that fined in a sever incident for making an obscene gesture to a follower in a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. When asked by a media reporter roughly the incident, he said, “I black out sometimes.” Wells was suspended one game without pay and fined $10,000 for with intent striking and verbally abusing an ascribed in 2000. Bonzi and teammate Erick Barkley in 2001 were cited for criminal trespass after they refused to follow the order of an proprietor to leave the scene of a battle near a downtown nightclub. This without help went to supplementary the team’s derisive nickname, The Jail Blazers. Trail Blazers government made an oath to the City of Portland to have a team of upstanding Portlanders,^{[citation needed]} and drastically restructured the team. In an dispute that emphasized the urgency to forgiveness Wells, he was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies for reserve protect Wesley Person.

Bonzi’s legacy in Portland was after that positive. On February 24, 2001, Wells recorded a next career tall 7 steals in one game, while furthermore scoring 21 points and recording 7 assists. He set the franchise CD for most points scored in a playoff game at 45 against the Dallas Mavericks in the first circular of the 2003 NBA Playoffs. The co-captains would carry the sixth-seeded Trail Blazers to a decisive Game 7 in contrast to the Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki led three-seeded Mavericks. The Mavericks won the series, and thirteen games into the later than season Wells was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies for Wesley Person and a 2004 first-round pick.

The option coaching methods of Hubie Brown and his strict 10-man rotation limited Wells to just under 25 minutes per game for the Grizzlies. This tactic helped them earn their first playoff manner in franchise history.