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Ford played four years of basketball at the University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill . After his sophomore season, Ford started for the U.S. Olympic team that won the gold medal in 1976. While a senior, he averaged 20.8 points a game during that 1977-78 season. A consensus All-American in both 1977 and 1978, he was named college player of the year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association in 1978, when he also won the Eastman and John R. Wooden Award s. Ford was the National Basketball Association Rookie Of The Year with the Kansas City Kings in 1979 . He retired in 1985. In 482 NBA games, Ford scored 5,594 points, an 11.6 average, and had 3,083 assists, an average of 6.4 per game. In 1988 he returned to North Carolina as an Assistant Coach , a job he held through the 1999-2000 season, until he was let go following a second DWI conviction. Ford was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall Of Fame in May 1991. Phil Ford currently works for the ''Educational Foundation'', the fund-raising arm of the University of North Carolina athletic department. As of 2006, Ford is an assistant coach for the New York Knicks . As of 4/27/06, he is apparently under consideration for the job as head of the NC State head basketball coach.
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