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Los Angeles-born Michael Cooper is a former basketball player and coach who is the varsity coach for boys at Culver City High School.
Michael Cooper won five NBA championships while playing for the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association during their Showtime era. Cooper was selected to be a member of the NBA All-Defensive Team eight times.
His career as a coach included jobs like leading the Women's National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Sparks to two championships. He also led the Albuquerque Thunderbirds to one NBA G League title. He has also worked as a coach in the NBA Development League.
Owing to his defensive skills, Cooper's name became synonymous with the LA Lakers' Showtime teams in the '80s. After his playing career, he has become one of the richest and most influential basketball coaches in the past few decades.
The renowned American basketball coach has an estimated net worth of $6 million. His net worth has been contributed to by his career as a successful basketball player and a coach for various teams.
Though not officially confirmed, he has earnings of around $400,000 per year.
The Los Angeles-born basketball player is 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) tall.
The famous basketball player is 66 years old as of 2022.
Michael Cooper's birthplace is Los Angeles, California, and he was born on April 15, 1956. His parents, Marshall and Jean, divorced when he was a child.
His mother was a nurse and worked double shifts to make ends meet, so Michael Cooper had to be left in the care of his grandmother, Ardessie Butler. He used to be left in the care of his uncles, who spotted his athletic talent and encouraged him to pursue it.
Michael Cooper attended Pasadena High School and graduated in 1974. He attended Pasadena City College before transferring to the University of New Mexico, where he graduated in 1978. Before basketball, he tried other sports as a student at Pasadena High School.
While at Pasadena High School, he excelled in track and field. He was most adept as a high jumper. During his years before basketball, a track coach in Los Angeles tried to convince him to focus on the high jump and thought Cooper might also have Olympic-level abilities for it. Finally, he settled for basketball, but his college career did not begin in a high-profile division but at Pasadena City College.
Michael Cooper is married to Yvonne Cooper.
He and Yvonne Cooper have two children, Simone Cooper and Michael Cooper Jr.
Early in his career, the Los Angeles Lakers selected Michael Cooper as their 60th overall selection in the 1978 NBA draft, in the third round. They were impressed with his all-rounder abilities and defensive skills.
Once he completed his career as a basketball player, Michael Cooper did equally well in a coaching career. He was appointed as special assistant to Jerry West, general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers, for three years. Later, he joined the coaching staff of the Lakers in 1994, first under Magic Johnson and then from 1994 to 1997 under Del Harris.
In 1999, Michael Cooper was appointed an assistant coach of the Los Angeles Sparks of WNA. Cooper contributed to the team's reaching the playoffs for the first time in the franchise's history with a record of 20-12. In November of the same year, Michael Cooper became the head coach for the Sparks, and the team showed exceptional quick improvement. For his hard work, Cooper earned the WNBA Coach Of The Year title. The Sparks continued their WNBA Championship winning streak in 2001 and 2002, but lost the third one to the Detriot Shock.
In 2004, Michael Cooper moved on to the Denver Nuggets as an assistant coach under Bzdelik. Bzedlik was fired after 24 games, and Copper was named the interim head coach. Cooper remained as the coach until George Karl joined in after a month and served as a scout for the remaining season.
His coaching career involved his appointment as head coach of the Albuquerque Thunderbirds for three years between 2005 and 2007. He returned to the Los Angeles Sparks to work as head coach for WNBA.
He was named head coach of the Women of Troy Basketball Team at the University of Southern California in May 2009. In 2013, the Atlanta Dream hired him as head coach. The same year, he was named boys' varsity coach at Chadwick School in the Palos Verdes Peninsula of Los Angeles County.
The thin Michael Cooper, with 5 ft. 5 in height and 77 kg, was known for his knee-high socks, and he played shooting guard, point guard, and small forward. According to Larry Bird, Cooper was the best defender he ever faced.
Cooper has an active presence on social media sites and has over 17000 followers on Twitter.
In his twelve-year career, Michael Cooper has been named to the NBA All-Defensive Team a total of eight times, including five first-time selections. He and Norm Van Lier have the misfortune of not being included in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame despite the fact that Cooper has the most defensive selections of any player.
In 2022, Michael Cooper was named a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame finalist. Michael Cooper won the NBA Defensive Player Of The Year Award in 1987. He was also the Walter J. Kennedy Award Winner in 1987.
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