Chris Jent
Shooting guard, Basketball Player
1970 –
Who is Chris Jent?
Chris Jent is an American retired professional basketball player and an assistant coach with the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association.
Jent was born in Orange, California and grew up in Sparta, New Jersey. After attending high school at Sparta High School, he played college basketball for the Ohio State Buckeyes, leaving in 1992 after four seasons. He had a brief career in the NBA, playing three games each for the Houston Rockets and New York Knicks. He played in 11 playoff games in 1994, thus giving him the rare distinction of having played in more career playoff-games than regular-season games in the NBA. In between his stints with the Rockets and the Knicks, he played with the Australian NBL's North Melbourne Giants in 1995 and also played in Italy, Spain and Greece.
Jent was an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2003-04 season. The next season he worked in the same capacity with the Orlando Magic, and was appointed interim head coach for the final 18 games of the 2004-2005 season, after Johnny Davis was fired. At the start of the next season he was replaced by Brian Hill. Beginning in November 2006, Jent took on the role of Assistant Coach/Director of Player Development with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He served as LeBron James' personal shooting coach while James was on the team.
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