Allan Houston, Former NBA All-Star
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Episode 153
Allan Houston played 13 seasons in the NBA with the Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks. He was selected in the first round of the 1993 NBA Draft by Detroit (11th overall) out of the University of Tennessee.
During his playing career, Allan was a member of 2 NBA All-Star teams as well playing on the 2000 USA Basketball Gold Medal winning team in Sidney, Australia. His number 20 is retired by Tennessee.
Upon retirement, Allan is still involved in the NBA working with the Knicks in their front office as an Assistant General Manager as well as the GM of their NBA G-League team, the Westchester Knicks.
A husband and father to seven children, Allan is heavily involved in his Allan Houston Legacy Foundation, FISLL, a legacy-building platform that teaches & ingrains the core fundamentals of life: FAITH, INTEGRITY, SACRIFICE, LEADERSHIP & LEGACY in daily living.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Allan about the changing landscape of the NBA, the dangers of social media, spiritual battles he faced during his playing career and why his faith fuels him to give back through his foundation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with two-time NBA All-Star and New York Knicks Assistant General Manager, former NBA player Alan Houston, is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 0:53.3 | Today's guest on the podcast, former NBA player Alan Houston joins the program. |
| 0:59.6 | He played in the NBA from 1993 to 2005. |
| 1:03.5 | He was selected in the first round, 11th pick overall, in the 93 draft by the Detroit Pistons. |
| 1:09.9 | He played his college basketball at the University of Tennessee, |
| 1:13.2 | playing under his dad as the head coach there. |
| 1:16.0 | And then it went on to play 13 seasons in the NBA, a two-time All-Star. |
| 1:21.0 | He played with the Pistons from 1993 to 1996, |
| 1:24.5 | and then was a free agent and signed a deal with the New York Knicks, where he finished out |
| 1:28.9 | his career in New York from 1996 to 2005. He was an Olympic gold medalist for Team USA at the Sydney |
| 1:36.6 | Olympics in the year 2000, and he's now the GM of the Westchester Knicks, the NBA G League team, |
| 1:43.6 | along with being the New York Knicks, |
| 1:45.6 | his former team, along with being their assistant general manager. |
| 1:50.3 | And Alan was really good on this podcast because we talk about his faith, but we talk about |
| 1:54.8 | fatherhood and the void that is so prevalent, I think, out there in society with fathers and the father void that so many of us have. |
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