Garrett Temple

About

Garrett Bartholomew Temple (born May 8, 1986) is an American professional basketball coach and former player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the LSU Tigers before playing professionally for 12 different teams across 17 seasons in the NBA.

Temple attended LSU Laboratory School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As a senior, he averaged 13.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 5.5 assists in leading University High to the 2004 Class 2A state championship.
At University High, Temple also competed in track and field, where he was a long jump and triple jump specialist.

After redshirting the 2004–05 season at Louisiana State University to work on his game, Temple earned a reputation as a defensive stopper as a freshman in 2005–06. In 36 games (35 starts), he averaged 5.1 points, 2.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.1 steals in 33.3 minutes per game.
In his sophomore season, he finished the year with 138 assists and 83 turnovers, a 1.7 assist-to-turnover ratio, which was 10th best in the SEC. In May 2007, he was part of the Reach USA Tour of China, an all…