Nationality American Weight 98 kg Listed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) Name Steve Mix Career start 1969 | Listed weight 215 lb (98 kg) Role Basketball Player Career end 1984 Height 2.01 m | |
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NBA draft 1969 / Round: 5 / Pick: 61st overall Similar People Caldwell Jones, George McGinnis, Harvey Catchings, Joe Bryant | ||
Where are they now former nba all star steve mix
Steven Charles Mix (born December 30, 1947), nicknamed The Mayor, is an American usher and former professional basketball player and coach.
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- Where are they now former nba all star steve mix
- Steve mix basketball legend at the ig center
- Basketball career
- Ushering career
- Personal life
- References
Steve mix basketball legend at the ig center
Basketball career
Mix attended Rogers High School in Toledo, Ohio, and the University of Toledo.
Mix was a forward with a 13-year career from 1969–1972 and from 1973–1983. He played for the Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers all of the NBA and the Denver Rockets of the ABA. Mix represented the 76ers in the 1975 NBA All-Star Game. Mix made it to the NBA Finals four times overall, three times with the 76ers (1977, 1980, 1982), but never won an NBA title. In 1983, when the 76ers did win the NBA title, Mix was a bench player for the Los Angeles Lakers, who were swept by the 76ers.
Following his retirement as a player, became basketball head coach at his alma mater, the University of Toledo. In his one year in the position during the 1984-1985 season, the team went 6-20. Afterwards, Mix spent 22 years as a color commentator on the 76ers' television broadcasts. In 2011, he worked a basketball analyst for SportsTime Ohio. In 2012, Mix was named head women's coach at Trine University. Mix left his position at Trine in 2014.
Since moving to Florida after his retirement at Trine, Mix has coached at basketball camps at Indian River State College.
Ushering career
After his retirement from basketball, Mix and his wife moved to Vero Beach, Florida. After calling Detroit Tigers clubhouse manager Jim Schmakel, Mix found a job as an usher for the New York Mets at First Data Field in nearby Port St. Lucie, where the Mets hold Spring Training and where two of the Mets' minor-league affiliates, the St. Lucie Mets and the rookie-league Gulf Coast League Mets, play. Regarding why he took up work as an usher, Mix said: "I heard somebody say sometime, when you retire and you do nothing, how do you know when you are done? I need that place where I can hang my hat. I just need a place where I can do something." Mix has received some recognition from fans who know him from his basketball days, including Mets Special Assistant to the General Manager J. P. Ricciardi, who himself coached high school basketball teams at Holy Name High School in Worcester, Massachusetts. Besides Ricciardi, Mix said that a few people recognize him each day: "I have a couple people bring cards up ... probably a couple times a day somebody will say something."
Personal life
Mix married his wife, Maryalice, in 1970. They have four children together and reside in Vero Beach, Florida.
During and since their playing days, when they were teammates and roommates, Mix and Julius Erving have been close friends, calling each other for their birthdays to the present day. Mix was nicknamed "Sky" by Erving; according to Mix, "Julius and [Mix] would talk hoops, [they] would talk life [and] family. Every night [Irving] would have a candy bar before he would go to bed. He used to say, 'I'm calling you [Mix] Sky because you can't.'"