Jo Jo English

Jo Jo English
Stephen "Jo Jo" English (born February 4, 1970) is an American basketball coach and former professional player who starred at the University of South Carolina in the early 1990s and later played parts of three seasons for the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls. English made his NBA debut on December 2, 1992. He was the top scorer in the 1999–2000 Israel Basketball Premier League.
English has served as a high school basketball coach after his retirement.
Playing career
A 6'4" guard, English is perhaps best remembered for being involved in a bench-clearing brawl with Derek Harper of the New York Knicks during a 1994 NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals playoff game at Chicago Stadium. With NBA Commissioner David Stern in attendance, English and Harper carried their fight into the stands and were subsequently punished with one and two-game suspensions, respectively.
English played just eight games in the following season and later joined the minor-league Continental Basketball Association. He also played for the Adelaide 36ers in the Australian National Basketball League during 1995, averaging 14.8 points in 21 games. English played one game with the Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs in the 1996 PBA Governors' Cup but was hobbled by an old injury. He later played in Turkey for two seasons, and in Israel for one season. He was the top scorer in the 1999–2000 Israel Basketball Premier League.
Coaching career
English spent three seasons as the head coach of the boys basketball team at Sumter High School in Sumter, South Carolina, until his resignation on September 19, 2015. On March 16, 2018, he was hired as the head coach at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia, South Carolina. On June 3, 2021, English was appointed as the head coach at his alma mater, Lower Richland High School.
References
External links
Career stats at https://www.basketball-reference.com
1970 births
Living people
Adelaide 36ers players
African-American basketball coaches
African-American basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Australia
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in the Philippines
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from South Carolina
Basketball players from South Carolina
Besançon BCD players
Beşiktaş men's basketball players
Chicago Bulls players
Israeli Basketball Premier League players
La Crosse Bobcats players
La Crosse Catbirds players
Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin basketball players
Magnolia Hotshots players
National Basketball Association players from Germany
German men's basketball players
High school basketball coaches in South Carolina
Rockford Lightning players
Shooting guards
SIG Strasbourg players
South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball players
Sportspeople from Frankfurt
Tri-City Chinook players
Undrafted National Basketball Association players
Yakima Sun Kings players
Philippine Basketball Association imports
Sta. Lucia Realtors players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American sportspeople