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Arizona basketball: 30 Greatest Wildcats of all time

By Shereen Rayan

TUCSON, AZ - SEPTEMBER 22: Former Arizona Wildcats basketball coach Lute Olson waves to fans as he walks with wife Kelly Pugnea during the first half of the college football game against the Utah Utes at Arizona Stadium on September 22, 2017 in Tucson, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
TUCSON, AZ - SEPTEMBER 22: Former Arizona Wildcats basketball coach Lute Olson waves to fans as he walks with wife Kelly Pugnea during the first half of the college football game against the Utah Utes at Arizona Stadium on September 22, 2017 in Tucson, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) /
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Arizona Basketball Greatest Player No. 27 – Jud Buechler

Position: Shooting Guard

Years at Arizona: 1986-1990

College Stats: 8.7 pts, 4.9 reb, 2.0 Ast, 0.3 stl, .1 blk

College Awards: 1990 First-team All-Pac-10

NBA Draft: 1990 / Round: 2 / Pick: 38th overall Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics
Years in the NBA: 12

NBA Awards:

NBA champion 1996, 1997
1998 NBA champion NBA Asst. Coach (Lakers)
2017 NBA Vegas Summer League Champion – Head Coach Lakers
2018-Present NBA Asst. Coach (Knicks)

Jud Buechler is currently the Knicks Assistant Coach which may be why Allonzo Trier and Kadeem Allen are getting attention in New York. As the head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers Summer League team in 2017, he coached the team to the Championship and fostered a lot of team chemistry that carried on through the season. Jud had to deal with Lonzo Ball and his dad Lavar as the Big Baller Brand hype was swirling around his young crew.

Buechler is an NBA Champion who won the title with the Chicago Bulls in 1996 and ironically the team beat the Seattle SuperSonics (in six games) who drafted Buechler. There are two Wildcats with Bulls contracts in 2019, Lauri Markkenan and Rawle Alkins. Let’s hope the good luck rubs off on them.

Buechler retired from the NBA as a player in 2002 after having scored a total of 2,385 total points, dishing 560 assists, and grabbing 1,266 rebounds. He was a two-sport athlete in Tucson earning the nickname Buechler was also an All-American volleyball player at Arizona, earning the nickname “The Judge.”

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