Doug Collins News
Paul Douglas Collins (Doug)
Position: Guard-Forward ▪ Shoots: RightHeight: 6-6 ▪ Weight: 180 lbs.
Born: July 28 , 1951 in Christopher, Illinois
High School: Benton in Benton, Illinois
College: Illinois State University
Draft: Philadelphia 76ers , 1st round (1st pick, 1st overall), 1973 NBA Draft
NBA Debut: October 10, 1973
As Coach: 11 Yrs, 442-407, .521 W-L% (Full Record )
As Executive: DET franchise, 1995-1998 (Full Record )
Other SR Links: Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
News -- June 2013
6/17 The High Phive: Looking ahead to the 76ers 2013 NBA Draft : It’s one week until the NBA holds the 2013 Draft and the Philadelphia 76ers have a new GM, Sam Hinkie, but they don’t have ...
News -- May 2013
5/29 HoopsHabit: Dallas Mavericks: Ranking the Best Players by Position in Team History : The Dallas Mavericks joined the NBA as an expansion clu [...]The post Dallas Mavericks: Ranking the Best Players by Position in ...
5/27 NBA Jerks: Understanding The NBA Head Coach Hire Potpourri : Jeff Hornacek is now in charge of leading the Phoenix Suns organization out of no man’s land. The former shooting guard, ...
5/16 HoopsHabit: Philadelphia 76ers: Players Want Michael Curry As Coach, Should Management Listen? : There are many head coaching vacancies in the NBA this [...]The post Philadelphia 76ers: Players Want Michael Curry As Coach, ...
5/12 HoopsHabit: Philadelphia 76ers: Who Should They Be Targeting in the NBA Draft? : A team that is going through the ‘rebuilding proc [...]The post Philadelphia 76ers: Who Should They Be Targeting in the ...
5/9 FanSided: Philadelphia 76ers’ Evan Turner Clashed With Coach Doug Collins : As a collegiate basketball player, you can’t exactly help where you were drafted and for the Philadelphia 76ers’ Evan ...
5/4 HoopsHabit: Philadelphia 76ers: 5 Best and Worst Draft Picks In Team History : The NBA Draft: Where busts happen. When picking a playe [...]The post Philadelphia 76ers: 5 Best and Worst Draft Picks In Team ...
News -- April 2013
4/30 The High Phive: 76ers Need Substance This Offseason & Forget Doug Collins : It’s been a couple of weeks since the Philadelphia 76ers (34-48) ended their season with a 105-95 victory over the Indiana Pacers. ...
4/29 NBA Injury News: 76ers rumors: Sixers reach out to Brian Shaw : The Philadelphia 76ers have contacted Indiana Pacers associate head coach Brian Shaw about their vacant head coaching position, ...
4/25 NBA Injury News: 76ers rumors: Philly eyeing Mike Malone, Brian Shaw : The Philadelphia 76ers parted ways with head coach Doug Collins following a disappointing season. Now, the Sixers are targeting ...
4/19 HoopsHabit: Philadelphia 76ers: Reflecting On Doug Collins’ Tenure As Coach : Despite having one year left on his contract, Philadelp [...]The post Philadelphia 76ers: Reflecting On Doug Collins’ Tenure ...
4/18 The High Phive: 76ers Officially Say Goodbye to Doug Collins : The Doug Collins as Philadelphia 76ers Head Coach era has now officially been closed with Collins resigning to take a consultant ...
4/16 The High Phive: Is Anyone at Fault for Andrew Bynum Disaster? : As the season is coming to a close, the news of Doug Collins inevitable departure from the Philadelphia 76ers is not surprising. ...
4/15 The High Phive: Doug Collins Steps Down, Finally Shows the Right Way to Lead : The Philadelphia 76ers started this season with a lot of promise and a huge question mark. The promise came from last seasons ...
4/15 The High Phive: 76ers Final Weekend Is a Winning One over Wizards & Cavaliers : With the NBA regular season coming to an end the Philadelphia 76ers (33-47) have nothing but pride to play for. They’re playing ...
4/11 The High Phive: 76ers Lack of Power Does Them In a Nets Win 104-83 : It’s the story we’ve come to know all too well this year as the opposing teams big men overpower what the 76ers put on the ...
4/10 HoopsHabit: Philadelphia 76ers: Will Evan Turner Ever Be An All-Star Caliber Player? : Good news for the fans of the Philadelphia 76ers: The 2 [...]The post Philadelphia 76ers: Will Evan Turner Ever Be An All-Star ...
4/9 The High Phive: 76ers Preview for the week of April 8th : This is it folks. The last two weeks of the NBA regular season and the 76ers have nothing to play for now. Officially eliminated ...
4/7 Dancing With Noah: The Ascension of Nikola Vucevic : As we wind down this 2012-13 season, Dancing with Noah has just a few planned posts remaining. Like the entire “Guess I’m Strange” ...
4/4 The High Phive: Holiday Can’t Hit the Ocean from a Boat as 76ers lose to Bobcats, 88-83 : The Charlotte Bobcats (18-57) are statistically the worst team in the league. The Philadelphia 76ers (30-44) are not that much ...
4/4 HoopsHabit: Philadelphia 76ers: Analyzing The NBA’s Worst Offense : The Philadelphia 76ers (30-44), Chicago Bulls (40-33) a [...]The post Philadelphia 76ers: Analyzing The NBA’s Worst Offense ...
News -- March 2013
3/25 The High Phive: 76ers End Road Losing Streak in Royal Fashion, Beating the Kings 117-103 : When you’re the lowest scoring team in the league, chances are that you’re going to have a tough time winning basketball games. ...
3/24 The High Phive: 76ers Fail to Close Out the Nuggets and Lose 101-100 : It happened quickly. In less than 10 seconds, actually. Corey Brewer scored 6 points in the final 10 seconds of the game and brought ...
3/21 The High Phive: 76ers fall hard to Chris Paul & the Clippers 101-72 : Sometimes courage and guts aren’t enough. Sometimes, it comes down to talent. Last night, in Los Angeles, the 76ers (26-41) ...
3/13 Dancing With Noah: Can I have a talk with you? alternately, The Lost Season: A Tragedy featuring Andrew & Doug : I think it was a couple weeks ago after yet another hopeless Andrew Bynum update that I started ideating about a post chronicling ...
3/12 HoopsHabit: Philadelphia 76ers: The 5 Best Coaches to Replace Doug Collins : The Philadelphia 76ers have lost 10 of their last 13 ga [...]The post Philadelphia 76ers: The 5 Best Coaches to Replace Doug Collins ...
3/11 HoopsHabit: Philadelphia 76ers: Why Doug Collins Is Not The Man To Take The Franchise Forward : After a playing career spent in Philadelphia, Doug Coll [...]The post Philadelphia 76ers: Why Doug Collins Is Not The Man To Take ...
3/7 The High Phive: 76ers Trends Continue as they Fall to the Hawks 107-96 : It’s come down to excuses with the 76ers. That’s how bad it’s become for the team that had high hopes when the season started. ...
3/5 The High Phive: Philadelphia 76ers Preview for March 4-10 : The 76ers have had a rough go of late. Since February 9th they’re 1-8 with a 7 game losing streak, one lucky win over the Golden ...
3/3 The High Phive: Evan Turner leads the 76ers to a 104-97 victory over the Warriors : Maybe this was the eye opener that Doug Collins needed or maybe this will cloud his vision even more. Last night in Philadelphia ...
3/1 The High Phive: 76ers are “Competitive” but Fall to the Bulls 93-82 : You know that you’ve reached the end of the line when the coach is using the word “competitive”. It’s over for the 76ers ...
News -- February 2013
2/25 The High Phive: 76ers Get Knocked Upside the Head in 99-93 Loss to the Knicks : Painful. That could be the word used to describe what it feels like to watch the 76ers play lately or it could be what you would ...
2/25 The High Phive: Shouldn’t Believe Anything You Hear About Andrew Bynum : He is practicing, he has been cleared to do this and that, he should be ready to play after the All-Star break and he is doing ...
2/22 The High Phive: 76ers Start Their Playoff Push with 94-87 loss to the Timberwolves : It’s the start of the “second half” of the NBA season, with 31 games to go, and the 76ers were looking to kick it off with ...
2/15 HoopsHabit: Philadelphia 76ers: Should They Trade Evan Turner? : It has been made no secret that the Philadelphia 76ers [...]The post Philadelphia 76ers: Should They Trade Evan Turner? appeared ...
2/14 The High Phive: 76ers stumble in to the All-Star break losing 94-92 to the Bucks : The 76ers season, hopefully, can be rescued with some rest and time away. In what has become an all too familiar story, the team ...
2/14 HoopsHabit: 2010 NBA Draft: Re-Drafting The Top 10 Picks : Going into the 2010 NBA draft, the consensus was that i [...]The post 2010 NBA Draft: Re-Drafting The Top 10 Picks appeared first ...
2/7 The High Phive: Things ARE worse as the 76ers lose to Indiana 88-69 : Someone needs to knock some sense in to Doug Collins.
It’s obvious that something has to change or else the 76ers need to get ...
2/5 NBA Jerks: Week 15 NBA Injury Report: Magic Meltdown : Injuries seem to come in bulk this season. The Magic are without their entire backcourt as well as Aaron Afflalo, the Clippers ...
2/4 Miami Heat Index: Week 15 NBA Fanalyst Rankings: Everybody Makes a Run :
No lead is safe in the NBA because every team makes a run during the game. This week’s Fanalyst Rankings analyze which ...
News -- January 2013
1/31 The High Phive: Philadelphia 76ers able to hold off Wizards 92-84 : Take out Jason Richardson (injury) and Lavoy Allen (not good) and the 76ers are playing like a different team. Mix that in with ...
1/30 The High Phive: 76ers Struggles too Much for Bynum to Save : Andrew Bynum is back! After all of the ups and downs, he is dunking in practice and reports say we should see him back in a 76ers ...
1/22 The High Phive: Losing a late lead the 76ers fall to the Spurs : What can the 76ers do besides wait for Andrew Bynum to get healthy?
Can they rely on Lavoy Allen and Spencer Hawes to be the center ...
1/17 The High Phive: 76ers: Bynum Shoots, Mack Signed, Wayns Released : The Philadelphia 76ers are coming off a very embarrassing loss at home to the New Orleans Hornets 111-99 in which the team was ...
1/15 The High Phive: 76ers Host 11-26 Hornets Tonight : Tonight the 16-22 Philadelphia 76ers take on the 11-26 New Orleans Hornets. The 76ers are coming off their 107-100 win over the ...
1/11 The High Phive: Could Laviolette and Collins both be on the hot seat this year? : Philadelphia is a very passionate town, especially when it comes to its sports teams. The sometimes blind following, though, ...
1/8 Nets Take Over: Nets vs 76ers Recap:Streak Continues : The Nets opened up with 4 turnovers but that didn't seem to be detrimental. Deron Williams started off hot, hittng two three ...
1/8 Dancing With Noah: Pain: Defining our Future one Injury at a Time : I definitely have multiple fascinations and mini obsessions in my life. In this space here and in the space residing in the smooth ...
1/6 The High Phive: 76ers end Road Trip with 3 Straight Losses : The Philadelphia 76ers were riding high coming off a big victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on New Year’s Day at the Staples ...
News -- December 2012
12/23 Nets Take Over: Nets vs 76ers Recap : The game kicked off with Keith Bogans taking the place of Kris Humphries which was due to match up problems. Thaddeus ...
12/20 The High Phive: Why the 76ers NEED Jrue Holiday : The last few 76ers games have showed us that the absence of Andrew Bynum isn’t necessarily the difference-maker this season; ...
12/18 HoopsHabit: Philadelphia 76ers: Andrew Bynum Making The Wrong Kind of Headlines : Let’s get this out of the way first. Andrew Bynum was correct on Sunday when he told reporters that playing for seven years ...
12/10 The High Phive: Big Week for the Sixers Ahead : The 11-9 Philadelphia 76ers have a big week ahead with three conference games and will be very telling on how they compare to ...
12/3 The Basketball Champs Belt: 1952: The Best Center of All Time is Born : As TBCB begins to prepare our 1952-53 NBA season summary, we set the stage by sharing with you related facts, stories, and highlights. ...
12/1 The High Phive: 76ers Week-in-Review: OKC, Suns, Rockets, and Bobcats : Four games down, three wins, and only one loss; this last week has been one of solid success for the 76ers. Their scoring is ...
News -- November 2012
11/26 The High Phive: The Lyin’ in Winter…Tough Selling for Philly Sports : For the first time in quite a few years, the Philadelphia sports scene is poised to enter the winter season without the warmth ...
11/24 The High Phive: 76ers Week-in-Review: 11/18-11/21 : The past week for the Philadelphia 76ers has been an interesting one: three games, two wins, and one loss. With their record ...
11/19 The High Phive: Andrew Bynum Injury Woes Continue : Around and around we go on the Andrew Bynum wheel of fortune. The fortune the Philadelphia 76ers are paying him to ride the bench ...
11/12 Miami Heat Index: Week 3 NBA Fanalyst Rankings: Coaching Edition :
Which coaches will do the best job of getting their teams to successfully execute their philosophies in the third week ...
News -- October 2012
10/24 The High Phive: A Tale of Two Coaches : As the city stands on the precipice of another NBA season, and reaches the half way point of football season, it is hard to imagine ...
10/12 Z krainy NBA: Iggy nie był szczęśliwy w Sixers : Andre Iguodala jest przeszczęśliwy, że nie ma go już w Philadelphii, bo źle się tam czuł. Doug Collins, jego były już ...
10/8 Z krainy NBA: Na co stać Bynuma? : Przeprowadzka do Philadelphii jest tym, czego Andrew Bynum nie dostałby w Los Angeles przez najbliższe kilka sezonów. Jako ...
News -- May 2012
5/7 Miami Heat Index: Week 2 NBA Playoffs Fanalyst Rankings: Respond-React :
With the first week of the playoffs in the books, the second week of the NBA Playoffs Fanalyst Rankings analyzes the adjustments ...
News -- April 2012
4/3 Miami Heat Index: LeBron James and Mario Chalmers Are Keys to Beating 76ers After Sunday's Loss to Celtics :
LeBron James and Mario Chalmers' games are the two biggest things the Miami HEAT will fix in practice to beat the Philadelphia ...
News -- March 2012
3/13 Z krainy NBA: Knicks zatoczyli koło..76ers górą! :
Powrót do hali Madison Square Garden i podjęcie w niej przeciętnie grających na wyjeździe 76ers nie poprawiło niestety ...
News -- January 2012
1/30 Z krainy NBA: Sixers pytają o Stoudemire’a :
Pamiętacie jak na początku zeszłego sezonu Amare Stoudemire pobił rekord Knicks zdobywając 30 i więcej punktów w 9 meczach ...
1/29 Miami Heat Index: Week 6 Eastern Conference Fanalyst Rankings: Swagger :
Teams can't just talk about being the best in the East, they have to act like the best team in the East. Acting like the best ...
1/21 Z krainy NBA: Pojedynek gigantów na Florydzie :
Dzisiejsza noc w NBA zapowiada się bardzo interesująco. Rozegranych zostanie aż 11 spotkań, z czego największych emocji ...
1/8 Miami Heat Index: NBA Fanalyst Rankings: Eastern Conference, Week 3 :
There are plenty of surprises in the third week of Fanalyst Rankings, including a new team in every spot and plenty of offbeat ...
News -- September 2011
9/24 Z krainy NBA: Podsumowanie 2010-11: Philadelphia 76ers :
Kolejną drużyną w naszym podsumowanie jest Philadelphia 76ers, drużyna która po roku przerwy wróciła do fazy playoffs, ...
News -- August 2011
8/29 Miami Heat Index: Erik Spoelstra Earned an Extension, Not a Pink Slip : The "Fire Spo" crowd does not understand the masterful job Miami HEAT head coach Erik Spoelstra performed during the regular ...
News -- July 2011
7/29 Miami Heat Index: Heat Check: Best NBA Players, Coaches and Basketball Wives : Some people were really impressed by LaMarcus Aldridge in this loss.The most overrated player, coach and basketball wife on HeatFreak.com's ...
7/21 The Wages of Wins Journal: The Coach is Wrong! Arturo takes on the value of a coach and finds out some surprising truths about playing time in the NBA....
News -- May 2011
5/10 Z krainy NBA: Koniec kariery Phila Jacksona : Piotr Zarychta
Phil Jackson wczoraj rozegrał swój ostatni mecz jako trener na parkietach NBA. Zapowiedział na konferencji ...
5/3 Load O' Bull: Thibs Coach of the Year Honor is Well Deserved (Video) : Tom Thibodeau was named NBA Coach of the Year on Sunday with Doug Collins finishing in a distant second (K.C. Johnson, Chicago ...
News -- April 2011
4/30 Miami Heat Index: Heat Produced: Miami Finishes Sixers in Breakfast by the Bay : Before Game 5 against the Philadelphia 76ers, LeBron James said it was time for the Miami Heat to "finish their breakfast" ...
4/23 Chasing 23: Brown Mamba’s 2011 NBA Playoff Predictions : Ok — it’s my favorite time of the sports year, the NBA Playoffs. And there is no greater armchair sport than making ...
4/16 Chasing 23: Brown Mamba’s 2011 NBA Playoff Predictions : Ok — it’s my favorite time of the sports year, the NBA Playoffs. And there is no greater armchair sport than making ...