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Guard · 1993–94

Dave Jamerson

Before the three-pointer ruled basketball, Dave Jamerson showed what it could do. On December 21, 1989, the Ohio University guard became the first Division I player to hit 14 threes in a game, scoring 60 points against Charleston. He finished third in the nation in scoring at 31.2 a game, won MAC Player of the Year, and went 15th overall to Miami in the 1990 draft. His three NBA seasons ran through Houston, Utah and New Jersey.

A First Team Academic All-American who graduated ranked among the classroom's best as well, Jamerson still holds MAC records for threes in a season and points in a single game more than three decades on.

HOW HE CAME & WENTUtah signed him on November 13, 1993 to cover for the injured David Benoit, then decided it needed a big man instead and waived him on November 26 — a Jazz career of under two weeks.

Full name
John David Jamerson
Utah Jazz tenure
1993–94
Position
Guard
Born
1967, Streetsboro, Ohio
Height
6′5″ (196 cm)
Weight
190 lb (86 kg)
College
Ohio University
Drafted
1990, 1st round (No. 15), Miami
Signature in the archive 1991-92 Upper Deck #296 ROCKETS w Magic Johnson

No photograph of this signature is online yet.

With the Jazz

DAVE JAMERSON · 1993–94 · PER GAME
SEASONTEAMGMPGPPGRPGAPGSPGBPGFG%3P%FT%
1993–94UTA14.01.01.00.00.00.0.0001.000
JAZZ TOTAL1 SEASON14.01.01.00.00.00.0.0001.000

Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗  ·  Wikipedia ↗

Did you know

DAVE JAMERSON · 6 NOTES
  • Once beat Toledo by connecting from 61 feet with one second left in overtime.
  • After basketball he became a pastor, first at a church in Indianapolis and later leading a congregation in Cedar Park, Texas.
  • The Jazz signed him in November 1993 when David Benoit pulled a hamstring and waived him thirteen days later.
  • A knee injury cost him the exact season the NCAA introduced the three-point line, and few players ever used that line better.
  • His father John was an All-American at Fairmont State, drafted by the Pacers in 1970 but played instead for the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots.
  • Was the first Ohio Bobcat ever taken in the first round, from a school that had not produced an NBA player since the early 1960s.