title: Mike Evans (basketball)
text: Michael Leeroyall Evans (born April 19, 1955) is an American former National Basketball Association (NBA) player and coach.  He played collegiately at Kansas State University where he is Kansas State's second all-time leading points scorer, behind Jacob Pullen, with 2,115 points.  He was drafted by the Denver Nuggets with the 21st pick of the 1978 NBA draft and had a 9-year NBA career with four teams (the San Antonio Spurs, Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Denver Nuggets).  He was widely regarded throughout his career as an excellent 3-point shooter, being among the league leaders in that statistical category during his stint in Denver.
  
  After his retirement as a player, he became an assistant coach with the Nuggets.  In 2001, when Dan Issel was fired, Evans assumed coaching duties for the remainder of the 2001–02 season, after which Jeff Bzdelik was hired as the team's head coach. In 2006–07 he was a scout for the Toronto Raptors. He then joined the Raptors' coaching staff in 2007–08. He was fired in the 2009 off-season.
  
  NBA career statistics
  
  Regular season
  
  |-
  | align="left" | 1979–80
  | align="left" | San Antonio
  | 79 || - || 15.8 || .448 || .286 || .682 || 1.4 || 2.9 || 0.8 || 0.1 || 6.2
  |-
  | align="left" | 1980–81
  | align="left" | Milwaukee
  | 71 || - || 12.8 || .460 || .143 || .781 || 1.2 || 2.4 || 0.5 || 0.1 || 4.5
  |-
  | align="left" | 1981–82
  | align="left" | Milwaukee
  | 14 || 0 || 14.0 || .471 || .000 || .667 || 0.9 || 1.6 || 0.6 || 0.0 || 4.0
  |-
  | align="left" | 1981–82
  | align="left" | Cleveland
  | 8 || 0 || 9.3 || .314 || .000 || .625 || 1.3 || 2.5 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 3.4
  |-
  | align="left" | 1982–83
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 42 || 5 || 16.5 || .473 || .000 || .805 || 1.4 || 2.7 || 0.5 || 0.1 || 6.3
  |-
  | align="left" | 1983–84
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 78 || 5 || 21.6 || .431 || .360 || .847 || 1.8 || 3.7 || 0.8 || 0.1 || 8.1
  |-
  | align="left" | 1984–85
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 81 || 0 || 17.7 || .489 || .363 || .863 || 1.5 || 2.9 || 0.8 || 0.1 || 10.1
  |-
  | align="left" | 1985–86
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 81 || 1 || 17.1 || .425 || .222 || .846 || 1.2 || 2.2 || 0.8 || 0.0 || 9.5
  |-
  | align="left" | 1986–87
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 81 || 4 || 19.3 || .458 || .314 || .780 || 1.6 || 2.3 || 1.0 || 0.1 || 10.1
  |-
  | align="left" | 1987–88
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 56 || 0 || 11.7 || .453 || .396 || .811 || 0.9 || 1.4 || 0.6 || 0.1 || 6.1
  |- class="sortbottom"
  | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
  | 591 || 15 || 16.7 || .452 || .307 || .807 || 1.4 || 2.6 || 0.7 || 0.1 || 7.7
  |}
  
  Playoffs
  
  |-
  | align="left" | 1979–80
  | align="left" | San Antonio
  | 2 || - || 6.0 || .375 || .500 || .750 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 5.5
  |-
  | align="left" | 1980–81
  | align="left" | Milwaukee
  | 4 || - || 9.5 || .529 || .000 || .875 || 0.3 || 1.5 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 6.3
  |-
  | align="left" | 1982–83
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 8 || - || 22.9 || .486 || .300 || .647 || 2.4 || 4.8 || 0.6 || 0.0 || 10.8
  |-
  | align="left" | 1983–84
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 5 || - || 15.4 || .321 || .125 || 1.000 || 0.6 || 2.4 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 4.6
  |-
  | align="left" | 1984–85
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 15 || 0 || 18.7 || .434 || .333 || .824 || 2.1 || 3.1 || 0.9 || 0.2 || 10.3
  |-
  | align="left" | 1985–86
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 10 || 0 || 20.4 || .366 || .241 || .833 || 2.0 || 2.5 || 1.0 || 0.3 || 9.2
  |-
  | align="left" | 1986–87
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 3 || 0 || 19.0 || .368 || .286 || 1.000 || 2.3 || 2.7 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 6.0
  |-
  | align="left" | 1987–88
  | align="left" | Denver
  | 11 || 1 || 19.9 || .395 || .273 || .933 || 2.0 || 2.1 || 1.1 || 0.0 || 10.5
  |- class="sortbottom"
  | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
  | 58 || 1 || 18.5 || .414 || .284 || .825 || 1.8 || 2.8 || 0.7 || 0.1 || 9.1
  |}
  
  Head coaching record
  
  |-
  | style="text-align:left;"|Denver
  | style="text-align:left;"|
  |56||18||38|||| align="center"|6th in Midwest|||—||—||—||—
  | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
  |- class="sortbottom"
  | align="center" colspan="2"|Career
  |56||18||38|||| ||—||—||—||—||
  
  References
  
  External links
   BasketballReference.com: Mike Evans (as coach)
   BasketballReference.com: Mike Evans (as player)
  
  1955 births
  Living people
  20th-century African-American sportspeople
  21st-century African-American sportspeople
  African-American basketball coaches
  African-American basketball players
  All-American college men's basketball players
  American expatriate basketball people in Canada
  American expatriate basketball people in Italy
  American men's basketball players
  Auxilium Pallacanestro Torino players
  Basketball coaches from North Carolina
  Basketball players from North Carolina
  Cleveland Cavaliers players
  Denver Nuggets assistant coaches
  Denver Nuggets draft picks
  Denver Nuggets head coaches
  Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball players
  Milwaukee Bucks players
  Montana Golden Nuggets players
  Sportspeople from Goldsboro, North Carolina
  Point guards
  San Antonio Spurs players
  Toronto Raptors assistant coaches
  Halifax Rainmen coaches