Career Highlights
- Member of the 1982 NCAA Champion North Carolina Tar Heels.
- Named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team as one of the fifty greatest players in Atlantic Coast Conference history
- Co-captain of the gold-medal winning 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball team.
- Named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 1984-85.
- Has appeared in 164 career playoff games averaging 11.3 ppg and 5.7 rpg.
- Recorded the first 30-20 game in Mavericks history, with 31 points and a career-high 20 rebounds, against the Houston Rockets on 12/12/86. (Dirk Nowitzki had 33 points and 23 rebounds on 2/21/02.)
- Scored a career-high 45 points, for the Mavericks, against the Golden State Warriors on 4/12/90.
- Appeared against the Chicago Bulls in the 1991 NBA Finals with the L.A. Lakers and again in 1996 with the Seattle SuperSonics.
- Tied an NBA record by hitting 8 three-pointers without a miss with the Seattle SuperSonics against the Toronto Raptors on 1/15/97.
- Participated in the AT&T Shootout during the 1997 NBA All-Star Weekend in Cleveland.
- Posted a 1997-98 season-high 21 points, on perfect shooting (5-5 FG, 4-4 3FG, 7-7 FT), and 3 steals against the L.A. Clippers on 12/14/97.
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