Sidney Lowe

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Sidney Lowe

| image = Sidney_Lowe_Wizards.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption = Lowe at Washington Wizards training camp in 2017

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lb = 195

| league = NBA

| team = Detroit Pistons

| position = Assistant coach

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|1|21|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.

| high_school = DeMatha (Hyattsville, Maryland)

| college = NC State (1979–1983)

| draft_year = 1983

| draft_round = 2

| draft_pick = 25

| draft_team = Chicago Bulls

| career_start = 1983

| career_end = 1990

| career_position = Point guard

| career_number = 35, 34, 43

| coach_start = 1991

| coach_end =

| years1 = {{nbay|1983|full=y}}

| team1 = Indiana Pacers

| years2 = {{nbay|1984|start}}

| team2 = Detroit Pistons

| years3 = {{nbay|1984|full=y}}

| team3 = Atlanta Hawks

| years4 = 1985–1986

| team4 = Tampa Bay Thrillers

| years5 = 1987–1988

| team5 = Albany Patroons

| years6 = 1988

| team6 = Calgary 88's

| years7 = {{nbay|1988|end}}

| team7 = Charlotte Hornets

| years8 = 1989

| team8 = Rapid City Thrillers

| years9 = {{nbay|1989|full=y}}

| team9 = Minnesota Timberwolves

| cyears1 = {{nbay|1991|start}}–{{nbay|1992|end}}

| cteam1 = Minnesota Timberwolves (assistant)

| cyears2 = {{nbay|1992|end}}–{{nbay|1993|end}}

| cteam2 = Minnesota Timberwolves

| cyears3 = {{nbay|1994|start}}–{{nbay|1998|end}}

| cteam3 = Cleveland Cavaliers (assistant)

| cyears4 = {{nbay|1999|full=y}}

| cteam4 = Minnesota Timberwolves (assistant)

| cyears5 = {{nbay|2000|start}}–{{nbay|2002|start}}

| cteam5 = Vancouver / Memphis Grizzlies

| cyears6 = {{nbay|2004|full=y}}

| cteam6 = Minnesota Timberwolves (assistant)

| cyears7 = {{nbay|2005|full=y}}

| cteam7 = Detroit Pistons (assistant)

| cyears8 = 2006–2011

| cteam8 = NC State

| cyears9 = {{nbay|2011|start}}–{{nbay|2013|end}}

| cteam9 = Utah Jazz (assistant)

| cyears10 = {{nbay|2014|start}}–{{nbay|2015|end}}

| cteam10 = Minnesota Timberwolves (assistant)

| cyears11 = {{nbay|2016|start}}–{{nbay|2017|end}}

| cteam11 = Washington Wizards (assistant)

| cyears12 = {{nbay|2018|start}}–{{nbay|2020|end}}

| cteam12 = Detroit Pistons (assistant)

| cyears13 = {{nbay|2021|start}}–{{nbay|2023|end}}

| cteam13 = Cleveland Cavaliers (assistant)

| cyears14 = {{nbay|2024|start}}–present

| cteam14 = Detroit Pistons (assistant)

| highlights =

3× CBA champion (1985, 1986, 1988)
CBA All-Star (1988)
All-CBA First Team (1988)
CBA All-Defensive Team (1988)
CBA All-Defensive First Team (1986)
CBA steals leader (1988)
NCAA champion (1983)
First-team All-ACC (1983)
Second-team All-ACC (1981)
No. 35 jersey honored by NC State Wolfpack

}}

Sidney Rochell Lowe (born January 21, 1960) is an American former basketball player and current assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Lowe played college basketball and served as the head coach at North Carolina State University (NC State).

Biography

File:Sidney Lowe (Duke Chronicle 1983-03-14).jpg

Lowe began his career at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland. He played collegiate basketball at NC State. He was the point guard for the Wolfpack's 1983 NCAA National Championship. Lowe was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 1st pick of the second round in the 1983 NBA draft. He played a total of four seasons in the NBA, for five different teams. Lowe played in the Continental Basketball Association for the Tampa Bay / Rapid City Thrillers and Albany Patroons from 1984 to 1989.{{cite web |title=Sidney Lowe minor league basketball statistics |url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbasketball/stats/p-lowesid001 |website=Stats Crew |access-date=February 22, 2025}} He won CBA championships with the Thrillers in 1985{{cite web |title=1984-85 Tampa Bay Thrillers Statistics |url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbasketball/stats/t-CBATBT/y-1984 |website=Stats Crew |access-date=March 9, 2025}} and 1986,{{cite web |title=1985-86 Tampa Bay Thrillers Statistics |url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbasketball/stats/t-CBATBT/y-1985 |website=Stats Crew |access-date=March 9, 2025}} and the Patroons in 1988.{{cite web |title=1987-88 Albany Patroons Statistics |url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbasketball/stats/t-CBAALP/y-1987 |website=Stats Crew |access-date=March 9, 2025}} He was selected to the All-CBA First Team in 1988, All-Defensive Team in 1988 and All-Defensive First Team in 1986. He was a CBA All-Star in 1988.{{cite web|url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&t=&sort=YMD_date%3AA&page=4&fld-base-0=alltext&maxresults=20&val-base-0=%22Ray%20Hall%22%20basketball&docref=news/0ED02A4331CA4199|title=CBA all-stars|accessdate=April 4, 2023|date=January 22, 1988|work=USA Today|page=5C}}

After retiring from basketball in 1991, Lowe took a job as an assistant coach with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Halfway through the 1992–93 season he took over as head coach of the struggling Timberwolves and remained in that position until the end of the 1993–94 season. From 1994 to 1999, Lowe served as an assistant coach to Mike Fratello with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Lowe returned to the Timberwolves organization in 1999 for one season as assistant coach.

The 2000–01 NBA season became Lowe's second stint as a head coach when he assumed the role for the Vancouver Grizzlies. He was the fifth head coach in the team's short history and led them to a franchise-best record of 23–59 in his first season and again the following season in 2001–02, when the Grizzlies relocated to Memphis. Sidney Lowe resigned from his coaching duties early in the 2002–03 season after starting 0–8, leaving his head coaching record at 79 wins against 228 losses (.257 winning percentage). In 2003, he returned to Minnesota once again to take an assistant position under then head coach Flip Saunders. Lowe followed Saunders to the Detroit Pistons in 2005 and remained an assistant coach there through the 2006 season.

To become eligible for employment as an NCAA head coach, he completed the final nine hours of his business administration degree online via St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Virginia.{{Cite news |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/news/story?id=2433439 |work=ESPN.com |title=Sources: Pistons' Lowe agrees to coach NC State |date=May 5, 2006 |first=Andy |last=Katz }} On May 6, 2006, Lowe was named the new head basketball coach of North Carolina State University, replacing Herb Sendek. Lowe was the first African American named head coach of the Wolfpack.{{cite web | url=http://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/2006-2011-03-first-african-american-head-basketball-coach | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514032610/http://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/2006-2011-03-first-african-american-head-basketball-coach | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 14, 2012 | title=First African American head basketball coach (2006 - 3/2011) | work=Historical State | access-date=April 13, 2012 }} One of Lowe's trademarks as a coach was a red blazer he wore to significant games in honor of his former NC State coach, Jim Valvano.

In his first season at the helm of the NC State program, Lowe became just the third Wolfpack coach, after Everett Case and Press Maravich, to win 20 games and defeat the other three North Carolina institutions in the ACC (Duke, North Carolina and Wake Forest). He is one of only four NC State coaches to have coached in the ACC Championship game in their first year.

In spite of the early success, Lowe failed to lead NC State to the NCAA tournament, and his teams only made two appearances in the NIT. He had an overall winning record (86–78) after five years but only a 25–55 conference record. Lowe resigned as head coach of NC State, accepting a buyout of the last two years of his contract, on March 15, 2011.{{cite news | url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/03/15/2142962/sidney-lowe-resigns-as-nc-state.html | title=Sidney Lowe resigns as N.C. State coach | first=J.P. | last=Giglio | newspaper=Charlotte Observer | date=March 15, 2011 | access-date=March 15, 2011 }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Later that year, he joined the Utah Jazz as an assistant.

At the beginning of the 2014–15 season, Lowe rejoined the Minnesota Timberwolves as an assistant coach.{{cite web |title=Wolves Name Sidney Lowe Assistant Coach |url=https://www.nba.com/timberwolves/news/wolves-name-sidney-lowe-assistant-coach |website=NBA.com |date=June 13, 2014}} On July 5, 2016, the Washington Wizards announced that Lowe had been hired as an assistant coach.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/16796942/sidney-lowe-tony-brown-join-scott-brooks-washington-wizards-staff|title=Lowe, Brown join Wizards staff as assistants|date=5 July 2016}} Lowe was hired by the Detroit Pistons beginning the 2018–19 season.{{cite web |title=Detroit Pistons Name Sidney Lowe and Sean Sweeney Assistant Coaches |url=https://www.nba.com/pistons/news/detroit-pistons-name-sidney-lowe-and-sean-sweeney-assistant-coaches |website=NBA.com |date=June 29, 2018}}

On August 26, 2021, Lowe was hired by the Cleveland Cavaliers as an assistant coach.{{cite web |title=Cavaliers Hire Sidney Lowe as Assistant Coach |url=https://www.nba.com/cavaliers/releases/lowe-hiring-210826 |website=NBA.com |date=August 26, 2021}}

Personal life

In 1984, Lowe married Melonie Moultry in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He had 20 groomsmen including Lorenzo Charles, Thurl Bailey, Dereck Whittenburg, Cozell McQueen and Clyde Austin.{{cite news |last1=Hobbs |first1=Chris |title=The Lowe Down |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113752838/the-lowe-down/ |access-date=28 November 2022 |work=The Charlotte Observer |date=1 July 1984 |page=11C}}

NBA playing career

=Regular season=

| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1983}}

| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana

| 78 || 2 || 15.9 || .413 || .111 || .777 || 1.6 || 3.4 || 1.2 || .1 || 4.2

| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1984}}

| style="text-align:left;"|Detroit

| 6 || 0 || 5.2 || .286 || {{sort|-|—}} || {{sort|-|—}} || .2 || 1.3 || .0 || .0 || .7

| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1984|nolink=y}}

| style="text-align:left;"|Atlanta

| 15 || 0 || 10.6 || .400 || .000 || 1.000 || 1.0 || 2.8 || .7 || .0 || 1.6

| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1988}}

| style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte

| 14 || 0 || 17.9 || .320 || .000 || .636 || 2.4 || 6.6 || 1.0 || .0 || 1.6

| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1989}}

| style="text-align:left;"|Minnesota

| 80 || 38 || 21.8 || .319 || .222 || .722 || 2.0 || 4.2 || .9 || .1 || 2.3

|- class="sortbottom"

| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career

| 193 || 40 || 17.7|| .367 || .133 || .764 || 1.7 || 3.9 || 1.0 || .0 || 2.9

Head coaching record

=NBA=

| style="text-align:left;"|Minnesota

| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1992}}

|53||13||40||{{Winning percentage|13|40}}|| align="center"|5th in Midwest|||—||—||—||—

| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs

| style="text-align:left;"|Minnesota

| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1993}}

|82||20||62||{{Winning percentage|20|62}}|| align="center"|5th in Midwest|||—||—||—||—

| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs

| style="text-align:left;"|Vancouver

| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|2000}}

|82||23||59||{{Winning percentage|23|59}}|| align="center"|7th in Midwest|||—||—||—||—

| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs

| style="text-align:left;"|Memphis

| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|2001}}

|82||23||59||{{Winning percentage|23|59}}|| align="center"|7th in Midwest|||—||—||—||—

| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs

| style="text-align:left;"|Memphis

| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|2002}}

|8||0||8||{{Winning percentage|0|8}}|| align="center"|(resigned)|||—||—||—||—

| style="text-align:center;"|—

|- class="sortbottom"

| style="text-align:left;"|Career

| ||307||79||228||{{Winning percentage|79|228}}|| ||—||—||—||—||

=College=

{{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = | conference = | postseason = | poll = }}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = NC State Wolfpack

| conference = Atlantic Coast Conference

| startyear = 2006

| endyear = 2011

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2006–07

| name = NC State

| overall = 20–16{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/152/year/2007/north-carolina-state-wolfpack|title=NC State Wolfpack 2023-24 Postseason NCAAM Schedule|website=ESPN|accessdate=June 17, 2024}}

| conference = 5–11

| confstanding = T–10th{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/standings|title=Men's College Basketball Standings, 2023-24 season|website=ESPN|accessdate=June 17, 2024}}

| postseason = NIT Quarterfinals{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap/_/gameId/270790277|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407153220/https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap/_/gameId/270790277|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 7, 2022|title=West Virginia 71-66 NC State (Mar 20, 2007) Game Recap|website=ESPN|accessdate=June 17, 2024}}

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2007–08

| name = NC State

| overall = 15–16{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/152/year/2008/north-carolina-state-wolfpack|title=NC State Wolfpack 2023-24 Postseason NCAAM Schedule|website=ESPN|accessdate=June 17, 2024}}

| conference = 4–12

| confstanding = T–11th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2008–09

| name = NC State

| overall = 16–14{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/152/year/2009/north-carolina-state-wolfpack|title=NC State Wolfpack 2023-24 Postseason NCAAM Schedule|website=ESPN|accessdate=June 17, 2024}}

| conference = 6–10

| confstanding = 10th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2009–10

| name = NC State

| overall = 20–16{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/152/year/2010/north-carolina-state-wolfpack|title=NC State Wolfpack 2023-24 Postseason NCAAM Schedule|website=ESPN|accessdate=June 17, 2024}}

| conference = 5–11

| confstanding = T–9th

| postseason = NIT 2nd Round

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2010–11

| name = NC State

| overall = 15–16{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/152/year/2011/north-carolina-state-wolfpack|title=NC State Wolfpack 2023-24 Postseason NCAAM Schedule|website=ESPN|accessdate=June 17, 2024}}

| conference = 5–11

| confstanding = T–10th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = NC State

| overall = 86–78 ({{Winning percentage|86|78}})

| confrecord = 25–55 ({{Winning percentage|25|55}})

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record End

| overall = 86–78 ({{Winning percentage|86|78}})

| legend = no

}}

References

External links

[https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/lowesi01c.html Coaching statistics] at Basketball-Reference.com
[http://www.sidneylowe.com SidneyLowe.com: Sidney Lowe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217105826/http://sidneylowe.com/ |date=2007-12-17 }}

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