About Us
Larry Steele
Larry Steele is a former professional basketball player, best known for being on the Portland Trail Blazers team that won the 1977 NBA Finals. Born in Indiana, he played basketball at Bainbridge High School where he was selected All-County, All-Sectional, All-Regional, All- Semi-State, Indianapolis News 1st Team All-State, and a member of the Indiana All-Star Team. In 2003, he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
He played collegiately at the University of Kentucky under coach Adolph Rupp. At the University of Kentucky, he was a three-year starter, averaging 13.1 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 3.9 assists per game. He was selected 1st Team All-SEC twice, Co-captain, MVP, Leadership Award, Hustle Award, led the UK team in assists and free throws.
He was drafted by the Trail Blazers in 1971, at the start of the Blazers’ second season and became a roster mainstay for nine years. He played 20.7 MPG on the 1977 championship team (starting nine games) averaging a career high 10.3 points per game. In a game against the Los Angeles Lakers in 1974, he was one assist short of accomplishing an extremely rare “quadruple-double” (a performance in which a player accumulates a double digit number total in four of five statistical categories-points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots-in a game).
Knee injuries forced Coach Steele into retirement at the end of the 1979–80 season and the Trail Blazers retired his jersey (15) on October 11, 1981.
After his playing days, he worked in the Blazers front office in marketing and served as a commentator and broadcaster for the NBA on CBS and as a head coach at the University of Portland from 1987 to 1994. He has been running the Larry Steele Basketball Camp since 1988.
Coach Steele lives at Camp Cedar Ridge during the week, and is dedicated to being personally involved at each of his camps. He conducts many of the daily clinics, lectures and demonstrations and interacts with every camper.
Staff
Larry and our Camp Directors handpick our staff. Our coaches consist primarily of High School level coaches, college level players, and outstanding youth coaches. Counselors are typically college age. We have one coach per ten campers and one counselor to an average of 20 campers. Including Coach Steele, the staff to camper ratio is typically 8 campers to each staff member.
Quadruple-Double
A quadruple-double is defined as a performance in which a player accumulates a double digit number total in four of five statistical categories-points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots-in a game. This feat is extremely rare: only four players have officially recorded a quadruple-double in National Basketball Association (NBA) history.
Only seven other players (one did it twice) have managed to finish with triple-doubles and a total of 9 in a fourth statistical category (statistical categories in which they fell short are in bold):
Name |
Date |
Team |
Opponent |
Minutes |
Points |
Rebounds |
Assists |
Steal |
Blocks |
Overtime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
RickBarry |
October 29, 1974 |
Golden State Warriors |
Buffalo Braves |
43 |
30 |
10 |
11 |
9 |
- |
No |
|
Larry Steele |
November 16, 1974 |
Portland Trail Blazers |
Los Angeles Lakers |
44 |
12 |
11 |
9 |
10 |
- |
No |
|
Johnny Moore |
January 8, 1985 |
San Antonio Spurs |
Golden State Warriors |
36 |
26 |
11 |
13 |
9 |
- |
No |
|
Larry Bird [a] |
February 18, 1985 |
Boston Celtics |
Utah Jazz |
33 |
30 |
12 |
10 |
9 |
- |
No |
|
Micheal Ray Richardson |
October 30, 1985 |
New Jersey Nets |
Indiana Pacers |
54 |
38 |
11 |
11 |
9 |
- |
Yes (3 OT) |
|
Clyde Drexler |
January 10, 1986 |
Portland Trail Blazers |
Milwaukee Bucks
|
42 |
26 |
9 |
11 |
10 |
- |
No |
|
Hakeem Olajuwon [b] |
March 3, 1990 |
Houston Rockets |
Golden State Warriors |
40 |
29 |
18 |
9 |
5 |
11 |
No |
|
Clyde Drexler |
November 1, 1996 |
Houston Rockets |
Sacramento Kings |
42 |
25 |
10 |
9 |
10 |
- |
No |
- [a] Bird sat out the entire fourth quarter. After three quarters, head coach K. C. Jones informed Bird that he was one steal away from a quadruple-double and asked if he wanted to stay in the game. Bird declined, saying that he "already did enough damage."
- [b] Olajuwon was credited with 9 assists in the original box score. However, after Rockets officials reviewed the game tape and discovered what they believe was an uncredited assist in the first quarter, they revised the box score, crediting Olajuwon with 10 assists and the third quadruple-double in NBA history. NBA's director of operations, Rod Thorn, requested to review the tape. After reviewing the tape, the league disallowed Olajuwon's quadruple-double and announced that his original line—with 9 assists—is official.