height_ft statvalue nationality birth_date cyears career_start years cteam draft_year team draft_pick image college statlabel name career_position caption high_school weight_lb birth_place draft_team career_end draft_round letter career_number height_in bbr article_title
7 16,006 -rrb- 1,460 -lrb- 1.3 bpg -rrb- -lrb- 14.4 ppg -rrb- 7,404 -lrb- 6.7 rpg american 17 september 1974 2013 start -- 2013 end 1995 1995 2003 end -- 2008 end 2009 y 2012 y y 1996 start -- 2003 end 2003 end detroit pistons -lrb- assistant -rrb- 1995 washington boston celtics new york knicks bullets portland trail blazers atlanta hawks detroit pistons 4 rasheed wallace 2.jpg north carolina -lrb- 1993 -- 1995 -rrb- points rebounds blocks rasheed wallace power forward / center wallace with the pistons in 2008 simon gratz -lrb- philadelphia , pennsylvania -rrb- 230 philadelphia , pennsylvania washington bullets 2013 1 w 30 , 36 0 wallara01 rasheed wallace

rasheed wallace

rasheed abdul `` sheed '' wallace -lrb- born september 17 , 1974 -rrb- is a retired american professional basketball forward who played 16 seasons in the national basketball association -lrb- nba -rrb- .
a native of philadelphia , pennsylvania , wallace played college basketball at the university of north carolina before moving on to the nba in 1995 .
originally selected by the washington bullets -lrb- now known as the washington wizards -rrb- as the fourth pick in the 1995 nba draft , wallace was named to the all-rookie second team following his first season .
he was then traded to the portland trail blazers after the season .
with portland he was a key member of the trail blazers team that made it to the western conference finals in 1999 and 2000 , and was an nba all-star in 2000 and 2001 .
wallace averaged a career best 19.4 points per game in 2002 for the trail blazers .
during the 2003 -- 04 season portland traded him to the atlanta hawks where he played one game before he was traded to the detroit pistons .
with the pistons , wallace won the nba championship in 2004 , but lost the nba finals in the following season .
individually , wallace was an nba all-star in 2006 and 2008 .
after the 2008 -- 09 season , wallace left the pistons as a free agent and signed with the boston celtics , where he played until retiring in 2010 .
he returned to sign a one-year deal to play for the new york knicks in 2012 .
wallace is currently the nba 's all-time leaders in player technical fouls , with 317 .
wallace also holds the single-season record for technical fouls .
in the 2000 -- 01 season , wallace received 41 technical fouls over a span of 80 games , about one technical foul for every two games .
on april 17 , 2013 , wallace announced his second retirement .
