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Ken Norman

Forward  at Atlanta Hawks
Age61
NationalityUSA
Height203 cm (6'8")
Weight98 kg
BornSep 5, 1964
CollegeIllinois
Career
13.5PPG
6.1RPG
2.1APG
646 games · 10 seasons

Career snapshot

10seasons
646games
8,715career pts
13.3PER (avg)
Most-played franchise: Los Angeles Clippers · 439 games · 1987-88–1992-93

Position rank · 1994-95

#39PPG rank
#32PER rank
#43WS rank
Among 97 Forward players (min. 41 games)

Career highs (single season)

PPG 18.1 1988-89 · LAC
RPG 8.3 1988-89 · LAC
APG 3.5 1988-89 · LAC
PER 16.4 1990-91 · LAC
WS 5.2 1992-93 · LAC

Draft

1987
Round 1 · Pick 19
from Illinois

Stats by season

SeasonTeamGGSMIN PTSREBASTSTLBLK FG%3P%FT%PERWS
1987-88 LAC 66 28 21.7 8.6 4.0 1.2 0.7 0.5 48.2 0.0 51.2 11.2 0.6
1988-89 LAC 80 79 37.8 18.1 8.3 3.5 1.3 0.8 50.2 19.0 63.0 15.4 4.0
1989-90 LAC 70 64 33.3 16.1 6.7 2.3 1.1 0.8 51.0 43.8 63.2 14.6 2.9
1990-91 LAC 70 45 33.0 17.4 7.1 2.3 0.9 0.9 50.1 18.8 62.9 16.4 4.8
1991-92 LAC 77 24 26.1 12.1 5.8 1.6 0.7 0.9 49.0 14.3 53.5 15.3 4.0
1992-93 LAC 76 71 32.6 15.0 7.5 2.2 0.8 0.8 51.1 26.3 59.5 15.7 5.2
1993-94 MIL 82 75 31.0 11.9 6.1 2.7 0.7 0.6 44.8 33.3 50.3 12.6 1.9
1994-95 ATL 74 27 25.4 12.7 4.9 1.3 0.5 0.3 45.3 34.4 45.7 14.8 3.2
1995-96 ATL 34 28 22.6 8.9 3.9 1.9 0.4 0.5 46.5 39.3 35.4 13.4 1.1
1996-97 ATL 17 0 12.9 3.8 2.3 0.7 0.4 0.2 28.7 15.8 33.3 3.1 -0.6

Transfers & team changes

Derived from season-by-season team membership.

All entries are season change.

About Ken Norman

Kenneth Darnel Norman is an American former professional basketball player. After graduating from Crane High School in Chicago, Kenny was an outstanding forward for the Illinois Fighting Illini who was selected 19th overall by the Los Angeles Clippers of the 1987 NBA draft. Norman was elected to the "Illinois Men's Basketball All-Century Team" in 2004. He earned the nickname, "Snake", that he kept throughout his college and professional careers, as a youth playing basketball at Touhy-Herbert Park, on Chicago's West Side.