Nickey (Nick) Maxwell Van Exel (born the November 27th 1971 with Kenosha, Wisconsin) is a former professional American player of Basket-ball of the National Basketball Association. Van Exel, leader of left-handed play of 1m85 was famous for its style of spectacular play and its capacity to register the decisive shootings at the end of the match.

University career

The trainer Bob Huggins gradually incorporated Van Exel in the Université of Cincinnati, conferring to him a statute of holder at the time of the 20 last meetings of the season. At the time of this amount of time, Van Exel led Bearcats to an assessment of 18 victories - 2 defeats punctuated of an appearance to the Final Furnace NCAA.

At the time of its year senior, Van Exel was leader of Bearcats in terms of points (18,3 by match) and of decisive master keys (4,5 per match). It led the team to the Elite Eight of tournament NCAA. It gained the distinction All-America and was finalist of the Wooden Award as a senior. In only two seasons, he became the recordman of the history of Cincinnati to the number of shootings at registered 3-points (147), tried (411) and with the percentage (35,8%). These records were beaten since.

Career NBA

In 14 years in NBA, Van Exel played for the San Antonio Spurs, the Portland Trail Blazers, the Golden State Warriors, the Dallas Mavericks, the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Lakers.

The career of Van Exel started when it was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the second turn with the 37e row at the time of the Draft NBA 1993. Van Exel and Eddie Jones were the showpieces in the rebuilding of Lakers at the beginning of the Années 1990. Carried out by the spectacular play of Van Exel, the two leaders helped the team to take part in the playoffs 1995 after Lakers missed the playoffs for the first time in 1994. He was member of the All-Rookie Second TEAM . He registered at the time of the fifth sleeve of confrontation vis-a-vis Spurs in playoffs the decisive shooting for the prolongation, then the victorious shooting.

At the time of its career with Lakers, Van Exel carries out 14,9 points per match and 7,3 decisive master keys, finishing in Signal 10 of the NBA in these two categories. Van Exel had tensions with some of its fellow-members, whose drafté new whole of 1996 Derek Fisher, like with Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, which joined Lakers in 1996, this transfer is regarded as Al causes conflict with the trainer LED Harris. It was selected with NBA All-Star Range 1998 in company of three of its fellow-members.

The June 24th 1998, after five seasons as a titular leader of play, Van Exel was transferred to the Denver Nuggets against Tony Battie and the rights of draft of Tyronn Lue.

Playing in a team of Nuggets which was one of worst league at that time, Van Exel carried out its average highest statistics then. In four seasons, it signed averages of 17,9 points and 8,3 master keys decisive per match, including 21,4 points in 27 matches at the time of the Saison NBA 2001-2002.

The February 21st 2002, it was transferred by Nuggets in company of Raef LaFrentz, Avery Johnson and Tariq Abdul-Wahad in Dallas Mavericks against Juwan Howard, Donnell Harvey, Tim Hardaway and a first tower of the draft 2002.

In Dallas, Van Exel had a small role, but had a contribution in the creation of points, in particular at 3-points. It carried out 15,5 points per match at the time of the Saison NBA 2002-2003 and nearly 20 points at the time of the playoffs 2003.

Van Exel was transferred the August 18th 2003 to the Golden State Warriors in company of Evan Eschmeyer, Avery Johnson, Popeye Jones and Antoine Rigaudeau against Antawn Jamison, Chris Mills, Danny Fortson and Jiri Welsch. At the time of the Season NBA 2003-2004, it played only 39 meetings, with averages of 12,6 points and 5,3 decisive master keys.

The July 20th 2004, it was transferred by Golden State to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange from Dale Davis and daN Dickau. With the Blazers, it registered 11 points per match in 53 matches.

Portland cement évinça Van Exel the August 3rd 2005, and then signed with the San Antonio Spurs the August 29th. After this signature, Van Exel declared that it would be its last season in NBA. Spurs aligned it at the time of 65 meetings during the Saison NBA 2005-2006. It carried out its weaker statistical averages in career (5,5 points), (15 minutes). At the time of the playoffs 2006, San Antonio was eliminated by the Dallas Mavericks. Two days later, the May 24th 2006, ESPN announced that Van Exel took its retirement.

Nick Van Exel is known like one of the most decisive players of its time, raising considerably its level of play at the time of the playoffs and transforming the victorious shootings for its team. It is classified with the 6th rank of the history of the league to the number of shootings at registered 3-points (1473) and to the second rank of that of Lakers (750).

Anecdotes

• During its period with Los Angeles Lakers, Van Exel was indicated by the nickname " Nick the Quick."

• Its technique of throw-franc was not very orthodoxe by the fact that it had a foot behind the line. It developed this style after its passage in Lakers because it felt that it drew better when it was not on the line. It drew to 79,6% bore with the throw-francs in career.
• It had various nicknames in addition to " Nick the Quick" , " Van Smack" and Nick " Van Excellent". With the college, its nickname was " Pearl"
• One could discover his house at the time of the first season of the emission MTV Cribs on MTV.
• It has a scar on its right eyebrow following an traffic accident when it was adolescent.
• It carried number 31 when it played university in Cincinnati, number 9 with Los Angeles Lakers, number 37 with the Goldens delicious State Warriors, number 19 with Portland cement Trail Blazers and number 31 with Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs.
• In the song Crazy in Coils Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Van Exel is mentioned by Jay-Z: " Soprano the rock handle like Van Exel".

External bonds

• Profile NBA of Nick Van Exel
• HoopsHype' S Scouting Carryforward

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