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Mikki Moore

Undrafted out of Nebraska — where he helped win the 1996 NIT, the school's first basketball championship of any kind — Moore ground through the CBA and D-League into a nine-team NBA journey that included the 2003–04 Jazz. The peak came in New Jersey in 2006–07: 9.8 points a game and a league-best .609 field goal percentage, the first undrafted player ever to lead the NBA in that category.

The resume tells the journeyman's story — D-League Defensive Player of the Year, All-CBA honors, final minutes with the Reno Bighorns in 2013. At Nebraska the 7-footer, whose name is pronounced 'MY-key,' was also famous for joining hacky-sack circles outside the dorms.

HOW HE CAME & WENTUndrafted, the journeyman big spent the 2003-04 season in Utah — one stop of nine in the NBA — and was with the Clippers the following year.

Full name
Clinton Renard Moore
Utah Jazz tenure
2003–04
Position
Center
Born
1975, Wilson, North Carolina
Height
6′11″ (211 cm)
Weight
223 lb (101 kg)
College
Nebraska
Drafted
undrafted
Signature in the archive 2004-05 Topps Total #271 signed Auto

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With the Jazz

MIKKI MOORE · 2003–04 · PER GAME
SEASONTEAMGMPGPPGRPGAPGSPGBPGFG%3P%FT%
2003–04UTA2813.84.62.90.70.30.5.521.857
JAZZ TOTAL1 SEASON2813.84.62.90.70.20.5.521.857

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

Did you know

MIKKI MOORE · 5 NOTES
  • Went undrafted and still played thirteen NBA seasons.
  • Went first overall in the 2002 D-League draft after the NBA had passed him by.
  • He suited up for nine different NBA franchises, from Detroit to Golden State, across thirteen seasons.
  • His breakthrough minutes in New Jersey opened up only after starting center Nenad Krstic went down with a season-ending knee injury.
  • Born Clinton Renard Moore in Orangeburg, South Carolina, he answered to Mikki, said MY-key.