Jan van Breda Kolff

Jan van Breda Kolff
Personal information
Born (1951-12-16) December 16, 1951 (age 72)
Palos Verdes, California, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
High schoolPalos Verdes
(Palos Verdes, California)
CollegeVanderbilt (1971–1974)
NBA draft1974: 2nd round, 20th overall pick
Selected by the Portland Trail Blazers
Playing career1974–1985
PositionSmall forward
Number32, 5, 20, 22
Career history
As player:
1974–1975Denver Nuggets
1975–1976Virginia Squires
1976Kentucky Colonels
19761983New York / New Jersey Nets
1983–1985Granarolo Bologna
As coach:
1983–1985Granarolo Bologna (player coach)
1985–1991Princeton (assistant)
1991–1993Cornell
1993–1999Vanderbilt
1999–2001Pepperdine
2001–2003St. Bonaventure
2003–2004New Orleans Hornets (assistant)
2008–2010Nashville Broncos / Music City Stars
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As coach:

  • WCC regular season champion (2000)
Career ABA and NBA statistics
Points3,696 (6.2 ppg)
Rebounds2,572 (4.3 rpg)
Assists1,178 (2.0 apg)
Stats at NBA.com Edit this at Wikidata
Stats at Basketball Reference

Jan van Breda Kolff (born December 16, 1951) is an American former college and professional basketball player and college basketball head coach. The son of coach Butch van Breda Kolff and grandson of Dutch soccer player Jan van Breda Kolff, he played from 1974 to 1976 for the Denver Nuggets, Kentucky Colonels, and Virginia Squires in the American Basketball Association, and the New York/New Jersey Nets in the National Basketball Association. From 1970 to 1974 he played for Vanderbilt University, and in 1974 he led the Commodores to a Southeastern Conference championship as SEC Player of the Year.[1]

He also spent two years in Italy, from 1983 to 1985, helping Italian team Virtus Bologna win a championship.

  1. ^ "About Coach Jan van Breda Kolff". Archived from the original on March 13, 2007. Retrieved November 27, 2006.