Charlie Ward, Heisman Trophy Winner - Former NBA Guard
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Episode 176
Charlie Ward played 11 seasons in the NBA with the Knicks, Spurs and Rockets. He was selected in the first round of the 1994 NBA Draft by New York (26th overall) after a stellar college career that saw him shine as a football player.
In 1993, Charlie won the Heisman Trophy as college football's most outstanding player. He would lead the Seminoles to the National Championship and 13 years later, would be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
Ward is the only Heisman Trophy winner to ever play in the NBA and he was a member of the Knicks team in 1999 that made it all the way to the NBA Finals before losing to San Antonio.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Charlie Ward about the 25th anniversary of that 1993 college football season, deciding to play pro basketball instead of football, what Florida State coach Bobby Bowden taught him about faith, how he lived his life in the NBA as an outspoken follower of Christ and why he decided to start the Charlie Ward Family Foundation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.9 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with former Heisman trophy winner, an MBA 11-year veteran Charlie Ward, is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 1:21.4 | Today's guest on the podcast, former Heisman Trophy winner 11-year NBA veteran. |
| 1:27.2 | Charlie Ward joins us on the podcast. Charlie won the 1993 Heisman Trophy winner, 11-year NBA veteran. Charlie Ward joins us on the podcast. |
| 1:29.6 | Charlie won the 1993 Heisman Trophy with the Florida State Seminoles in football, two-time |
| 1:35.7 | ACC athlete of the year. |
| 1:38.6 | And in 1993, he not only won the Heisman, he led his Seminoles to the National Championship in college football. |
| 1:46.4 | He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006, and if you don't know the name Charlie Ward, you're probably thinking, oh, he went on to a great NFL career. |
| 1:55.6 | Actually, Charlie was a two-sport athlete in college, and when it was time to make a decision to go pro, he made |
| 2:02.7 | that decision to turn pro in basketball. |
| 2:06.2 | And it was a right decision. |
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