title: Jim Cleamons
text: James Mitchell Cleamons (born September 13, 1949) is an American former professional basketball player and current coach.
  
  Playing career 
  He played collegiately at the Ohio State University, and was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 13th pick of the 1971 NBA draft.  He had a nine-year NBA career for four teams (the Los Angeles Lakers, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the New York Knicks, and the Washington Bullets). In 1976, Cleamons was selected to the NBA All-Defense 2nd team.
  
  Coaching career 
  Cleamons worked as an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls from 1989 to 1996. He was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks for slightly over one year, from 1996 to 1997.  He was then the head coach of the Chicago Condors of the American Basketball league, a short-lived women's professional basketball league in the mid Nineties. He also served as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets. For a few games during his tenure with the Lakers, he served as acting head coach while Phil Jackson was absent.
  
  In 2011, Cleamons became a coach in the Chinese Basketball Association. In 2013, he became an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks.
  
  In 2014, Cleamons joined the New York Knicks coaching staff under Derek Fisher.
  
  In 2017, Cleamons accepted a position as an assistant coach for the Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA) high school boys basketball team.
  
  Head coaching record
  
  College
  
  NBA
  
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  | align="left" |Dallas
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  |82||24||58||.293|| align="center" |5th in Midwest||—||—||—||—
  | align="center" |Missed Playoffs
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  | align="left" |Dallas
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  |16||4||12||.250|| align="center" |(fired)||—||—||—||—
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  | align="left" |Career
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  References
  
  External links
  
   BasketballReference.com: Jim Cleamons (as coach)
   BasketballReference.com: Jim Cleamons (as player)
  
  1949 births
  Living people
  African-American basketball coaches
  African-American basketball players
  American expatriate basketball people in China
  American men's basketball players
  Basketball coaches from North Carolina
  Basketball players from North Carolina
  Cleveland Cavaliers players
  Chicago Bulls assistant coaches
  Dallas Mavericks head coaches
  Dallas Mavericks expansion draft picks
  Furman Paladins men's basketball coaches
  Los Angeles Lakers assistant coaches
  Los Angeles Lakers draft picks
  Los Angeles Lakers players
  Milwaukee Bucks assistant coaches
  New Orleans Hornets assistant coaches
  New York Knicks assistant coaches
  New York Knicks players
  Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball coaches
  Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball players
  People from Lincolnton, North Carolina
  Washington Bullets players
  Youngstown State Penguins men's basketball coaches
  Guards (basketball)
  21st-century African-American people
  20th-century African-American sportspeople