Danny Manning

**Daniel Ricardo Manning** (born May 17, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and retired NBA player. He is the current men's head coach at Wake Forest. Manning played high school basketball at Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas, college basketball at The University of Kansas, and played in the NBA for 14 years. After he retired from professional basketball, Manning became an assistant coach at the University of Kansas. He won the national championship with the Jayhawks in 1988 as a player. He won it again as an assistant in 2008. He is the all-time leading scorer in Kansas basketball history with 2,951 points. The next closest player to his point total is Nick Collison, who is 854 points behind Manning.

## Early life

Manning is the son of Ed Manning, who was a longtime NBA and ABA player and professional and college coach.

When he was a junior at Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina, Manning averaged 18.8 points and nine rebounds per game. He led the Pirates to a 26–0 record and the state title.

When Ed Manning became an assistant coach at the University of Kansas before Manning's senior year, the family moved to Lawrence, Kansas. Manning went to Lawrence High School. While he was there as a senior, he was named Kansas Player of the Year. While in Lawrence High, Manning played along future United States federal judge Sri Srinivasan.

### Wake Forest

On April 4, 2014, Manning agreed to become the head coach at Wake Forest University.

## Personal life

Manning is the son of former NBA player, Ed Manning. Manning's own son, Evan, accepted a walk-on invitation for the men's basketball team at Kansas for the 2012–13 season. His daughter, Taylor, is a member of the Kansas volleyball team.

## NBA career statistics

|SEASON|TEAM|GP|MPG|SPG|BPG|RPG|APG|PPG|Hi|40+|50+|TD|DD|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1988–89|LA Clippers|26|36.5|1.7|1.0|6.6|3.1|16.7|29|0|0|0|4|
|1989–90|LA Clippers|71|32.0|1.3|0.5|5.9|2.6|16.3|39|0|0|0|4|
|1990–91|LA Clippers|73|30.1|1.6|0.8|5.8|2.7|15.9|31|0|0|0|6|
|1991–92|LA Clippers|82|35.4|1.6|1.5|6.9|3.5|19.3|34|0|0|0|13|
|1992–93|LA Clippers|79|34.9|1.4|1.3|6.6|2.6|22.8|36|0|0|0|16|
|1993–94|LA Clippers/ Atlanta|42 26|38.0 35.6|1.3 1.8|1.4 1.0|7.0 6.5|4.2 3.3|23.7 15.7|43 24|1 0|0 0|1 0|9 5|
|1994–95|Phoenix|46|32.8|0.9|1.2|6.0|3.3|17.9|33|0|0|0|7|
|1995–96|Phoenix|33|24.7|1.2|0.7|4.3|2.0|13.4|32|0|0|0|0|
|1996–97|Phoenix|77|27.7|1.1|1.0|6.1|2.2|13.5|26|0|0|0|12|
|1997–98|Phoenix|70|25.6|1.0|0.7|5.6|2.0|13.5|35|0|0|0|6|
|1998–99|Phoenix|50|23.7|0.7|0.8|4.4|2.3|9.1|19|0|0|0|1|
|1999–00|Milwaukee|72|16.9|0.9|0.4|2.9|1.0|4.6|19|0|0|0|0|
|2000–01|Utah|82|15.9|0.6|0.4|2.6|1.1|7.4|25|0|0|0|0|
|2001–02|Dallas|41|13.5|0.5|0.5|2.6|0.7|4.0|13|0|0|0|0|
|2002–03|Detroit|13|6.8|0.7|0.2|1.4|0.5|2.6|18|0|0|0|0|

## Other websites

- Wake Forest profile

## Infobox (basketball biography)

- **name**: Danny Manning
- **image**: Coach Danny Manning Wake Forest University (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Manning in 2015
- **birth place**: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- **nationality**: American
- **height ft**: 6
- **height in**: 10
- **weight lbs**: 275
- **high school**: *
* Lawrence High School (Kansas), Lawrence (Lawrence, Kansas)
- **college**: Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball, Kansas (1984–1988)
- **draft year**: 1988
- **draft round**: 1
- **draft pick**: 1
- **draft team**: Los Angeles Clippers
- **career start**: 1988
- **career end**: 2003
- **career number**: 25, 5, 15, 6
- **career position**: Power Forward (basketball), Power forward
- **coach start**: 2003
- **years1**: –
- **team1**: Los Angeles Clippers
- **team2**: Atlanta Hawks
- **years3**: –
- **team3**: Phoenix Suns
- **team4**: Milwaukee Bucks
- **team5**: Utah Jazz
- **team6**: Dallas Mavericks
- **team7**: Detroit Pistons
- **cyears1**: 2003–04 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, 2003–2005–06 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, 2006
- **cteam1**: Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball, Kansas (team manager)
- **cyears2**: 2006–07 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, 2006–2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, 2012
- **cteam2**: Kansas (assistant)
- **cyears3**: 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, 2012–2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, 2014
- **cteam3**: Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball, Tulsa
- **cyears4**: 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, 2014–2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, 2020
- **cteam4**: Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball, Wake Forest
- **highlights**: **As player:**
* 2× NBA All-Star (1993 NBA All-Star Game, 1993, 1994 NBA All-Star Game, 1994)
* NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award, NBA Sixth Man of the Year ()
* List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball champions, NCAA champion (1988 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, 1988)
* NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player, NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player (1988)
* Naismith College Player of the Year (1988)
* John R. Wooden Award (1988)
* NABC Player of the Year (1988)
* 2× Consensus first-team NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, All-American (1987 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, 1987, 1988 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, 1988)
* Consensus second-team All-American (1986 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, 1986)
* 3× Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year, Big Eight Player of the Year (1986–1988)
* No. 25 jersey Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball#Retired jerseys, retired by Kansas Jayhawks
* USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year (1987)
* First-team Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team, _Parade_ All-American (1984)
* McDonalds All American (1984 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, 1984)
**As head coach:**
* Conference USA, C-USA regular season champion (2014)
* Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament, C-USA Tournament champion (2014 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament, 2014)
* C-USA Coach of the Year (2014)
* Skip Prosser Award (2017)
**As assistant coach:**
* List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball champions, NCAA champion (2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, 2008)
- **cbbaskhof year**: 2008
- **stats league**: NBA
- **stat1label**: Point (basketball), Points
- **stat1value**: 12,367 (14.0 ppg)
- **stat2label**: Rebound (basketball), Rebounds
- **stat2value**: 4,615 (5.2 rpg)
- **stat3label**: Assist (basketball), Assists
- **stat3value**: 2,063 (2.3 apg)
- **bbr**: mannida01