Sean Michael Elliott is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. Elliott was born in Tucson, Arizona and was youngest of three boys. He was a very intelligent boy growing up and attended the G.A.T.E. program at Tolson Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona. He played high school basketball at Cholla High School on Tucson's west side, and after graduating in 1985, remained in Tucson to play college basketball at the University of Arizona. Under the tutelage of Lute Olson, Elliott was selected as a consensus all-American during his junior and senior years, and led... the Wildcats to the Final Four in his junior year . After an exceptional senior season, Elliott won the Wooden Award. He is still the University of Arizona's all-time leading scorer. He played for the US national team in the 1986 FIBA World Championship, winning the gold medal. Elliott was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 1989 NBA Draft under Coach Larry Brown, and spent the majority of his career with the Spurs. Elliott spent the 1993–94 season with the Detroit Pistons.
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