About Milton Wagner
Born 1963. Milton Wagner is an American basketball player and basketball coach.
Milton E. Wagner Jr. (born February 20, 1963) is an American former basketball coach and former professional basketball player. After playing college basketball at Louisville, Wagner played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He served as assistant coach for the UTEP Miners and the Auburn Tigers. He most recently served as the Director of Player Development and Alumni Relations at the University of Louisville.
Career Wagner played high school basketball at Camden High School.
A 6' 5" point guard/shooting guard he led the Louisville Cardinals to the 1986 NCAA Championship along with three Final Four berths (1982, 1983, 1986) as well as to the 1984 Sweet Sixteen. He helped the Cardinals to a 113β32 record, three Metro Conference regular season titles and two Metro Conference Tournament crowns during his college career. He redshirted the 1985 season with a broken foot.
A three-time All-Metro Conference selection, Wagner ranks fifth (was fourth after finishing collegiate career) in Cardinal history with 1,836 career points, with a 12.7 career scoring average while also averaging three assists and 2.5 rebounds. He played in 144 career games, second all-time at Louisville, and started the last 111 games he played. He ranks sixth in career assists (432) and seventh in career free throw percentage (.808, 336-of-413).
Wagner was drafted in the second round of the 1986 NBA draft. Wagner is one of the few players that have won national titles in high school, college and in the NBA. He and Billy Thompson are the only players to win all three championships as teammates.
Wagner is also the father of Munirah Walker, DaShonda Wagner, Janay Wagner and former NBA player Dajuan Wagner, and grandfather of five-star recruit D. J. Wagner who plays for the University of Arkansas. He served as an assistant men's basketball coach for the University of Texas at El Paso under Tony Barbee. In 2010, he moved to Auburn as part of Barbee's staff there.
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American basketball player-coach
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Milton Wagner was born on 20 February 1963 in Camden.
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Milton Wagner is a basketball player and basketball coach.
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