John Pinone

John Pinone

Personal information
Born	(1961-02-19) February 19, 1961 Hartford, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight	230 lb (104 kg)
Career information
High school	South Catholic (Hartford, Connecticut)
College	Villanova (1979–1983)
NBA draft	1983: 3rd round, 58th overall pick
Selected by the Atlanta Hawks
Playing career	1983–1993
Position	Power forward
Number	33
Career history
1983	Atlanta Hawks
1983–1984	Ohio Mixers (CBA)
1984–1993	Estudiantes (Spain)
Career highlights and awards
Spanish King's Cup MVP (1992) 3× Robert V. Geasey Trophy winner (1981–1983)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference
Medals Representing United States World Championships 1982 Colombia National team

John Gabriel Pinone Jr. (born February 19, 1961, in Hartford, Connecticut) is a retired American professional basketball player. Pinone played competitively at South Catholic High School in Hartford, leading the team to the Class L state championship in 1977 and 1979. Early in the 1978-79 season, Pinone and South Catholic defeated Middletown, ending their 80-game winning streak, longest in state history.

Pinone played collegiately for the Villanova Wildcats from 1979 to 1983. He was named a third-team All-American as a senior. Pinone earned first-team All-Big East honors three times, and was a first-team All-Philadelphia Big 5 selection four times. Pinone was the only freshman in Villanova history to lead the team in scoring, and Villanova retired his number 45 in 1995.

He played for the US national team in the 1982 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal.

A third-round draftee in 1983, Pinone played seven games in the NBA for the Atlanta Hawks in 1983-84. After spending the rest of the season in the Ohio Mixers of the CBA, earning a place in the '84 CBA All-Star Game, he joined CB Estudiantes in the Spanish Liga ACB in 1984-85, playing there until 1992-93. He won the Spanish Cup in 1991-92, and contributed to Estudiantes reaching the Final Four of Euroleague in 1992. In his Liga ACB tenure with Estudiantes Pinone played 12,306 minutes (ranked 26th), played 332 games, scored 6,175 points (ranked 14th), grabbed 2,193 rebounds (ranked 22nd), averaging 18.6 points per game (ranks as of March 2013). He was two times selected for the ACB All-Star Game in 1989 and 1991. During the eight seasons played with Estudiantes Pinone left a durable mark in the history of the club because of his solid team basketball and his competitive character.

Pinone later became the Cromwell High School boys' basketball team coach, and coached them to a class S state championship in the 2009 season. Pinone pleaded guilty in October 2010 to a misdemeanor of filing a false tax return and in December 2010 was sentenced to six months of home confinement, six months probation and a $10,000 fine.

External links

• Career statistics from NBA.com  and Basketball Reference