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Mario Antoine Elie (born November 26, 1963) is an American former basketball player and current assistant coach for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Elie grew up in New York City and played college basketball at American International College. In the 1985 NBA draft, the Milwaukee Bucks drafted Elie in the seventh round as the 160th overall pick. Elie began his career in 1986 playing in the Irish Superleague and later elsewhere overseas and in U.S. minor leagues USBL and CBA. He first played in the NBA in 1990 for the Philadelphia 76ers and later played for the Golden State Warriors, Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, and Phoenix Suns before retiring from the sport in 2001. Elie won three NBA titles: two in 1994 and 1995 with the Rockets and the 1999 title with the Spurs. Elie began his coaching career in 2003 as an assistant with the Spurs and later held similar positions with the Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings before joining the New Jersey Nets (now Brooklyn Nets) in 2011. After leaving the Nets two years later, Elie would take on an assistant coach role for the Orlando Magic in 2015. ==Early life and career== Elie, who is of Haitian heritage, grew up in New York City. He was named "Mario" for opera singer Mario Lanza. His father died after Elie graduated from college. He had a brother named Clark, an amateur basketball player who died in a car accident in October 2009. He also has a sister named Nancy. Elie attended Power Memorial Academy (same high school as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), under coach Steve Donohue. Elie played street ball in Central Park and other locations in New York City during the 1980s, trying and failing several times to get into the NBA. His nickname on the New York playgrounds was "The Jedi". He played college basketball at American International College in Springfield, MA. Though Elie led AIC to their conference's first NCAA Division II Tournament Quarter-Final, he was at first overlooked by NBA teams.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.northeast10.org/information/about_ne10/timeline )〕 Elie was selected with the 160th pick (out of 162 total) in the 1985 NBA Draft by the Milwaukee Bucks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/draft/NBA_1985.html )〕 However, he was waived by the Bucks less than two months later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/e/eliema01.html )〕 He was also on the pre-season roster for the 1990-91 Los Angeles Lakers, but was waived before the season started.〔 In 1986, he started his professional career at Dart Killester in Ireland. He later played in the Portuguese League with the Ovarense Aerosoles, then in the World Basketball League, and also spent two years in the Continental Basketball Association with the Albany Patroons. He also played briefly in the Argentine League, for Unión de Santa Fe.〔( Elie, nuevo asistente de San Antonio Spurs )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mario Elie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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