High school career

A native of Altadena, California, Vaughn attended John Muir High School in nearby Pasadena, where he maintained a 3.94 GPA in honors and AP courses, and became the best high school player in that area since former Muir and NBA standout Stacey Augmon. Vaughn excelled both on and off the court, and by his senior year was ranked as high as the #7 high school recruit in the country and the #2 point guard in the class of 1993 behind arguably the nation's top player that year, Randy Livingston. Over the course of the season, Vaughn averaged over 21 points and 19 assists per game, while also compiling six triple-doubles. Named a First-Team All-American by nearly every publication on the market, Vaughn rounded off his special season with a selection to participate in the prestigious McDonald's All-American Game where he put on a show, scoring only 6 points but amassing 13 assists (still a McDonald's record), while also thoroughly outplaying the higher-ranked Livingston once again—this time on a national stage (they had both matched up against each other in the All-Star Game of the 1992 Nike Camp), and was named co-MVP with North Carolina's Jerry Stackhouse in the process. After considering Georgetown, Indiana, UNLV, Arizona and UCLA, Vaughn decided to play for coach Roy Williams at Kansas, continuing, along with fellow recruit and college roommate Scot Pollard, the California pipeline of high school hoopsters to Lawrence, Kansas, started by former standouts Adonis Jordan and Rex Walters, and continuing in later years with Paul Pierce, and Eric Chenowith.

As a senior in high school in 1993, Vaughn was awarded the Dial Award as the nation's top male high school scholar-athlete, becoming the first basketball player ever to win that award.

College career

In his college career Vaughn became the starting point guard as a freshman after being chosen to replace incumbent starter Calvin Rayford. Among Vaughn's first-year highlights were earning the MVP award at the 1993 Pre-Season NIT at Madison Square Garden in New York City and hitting a game-winning three pointer at the overtime buzzer to beat Indiana in an early season game at Allen Fieldhouse. Throughout his four years at Kansas, Vaughn was known as a good distributor of the basketball and effective defender with great speed and court awareness. By the end of his college career, he was the all-time leader in assists in Kansas basketball history with 804 total (since surpassed by Aaron Miles), as well as the Big Eight Conference's all-time record holder. In 1997, the award given annually to the school's assist leader was renamed to include Vaughn, Miles and original assists leader, Cedric Hunter, as the Hunter/Vaughn/Miles Assists Award.

Vaughn earned a 3.72 GPA as a Business Administration major. He was a two-time Academic All-American at Kansas and the 1997 GTE Academic All-American of the Year. He was also a two-time all-conference pick and was named the Big Eight Player of the Year in 1996. His college jersey was retired on December 31, 2002 and hangs in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse.

NBA career

In 1997, Vaughn was selected 27th overall by the Utah Jazz in the 1997 NBA Draft. In addition to playing four seasons in Utah, Vaughn also played with the Orlando Magic, the Atlanta Hawks (in two separate stints), New Jersey Nets, and San Antonio Spurs. He appeared in 64 games for the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs during the 06-07 season and finished his career there, retiring after the 08-09 season. Over his career, he averaged 4.5 points per game and 2.5 assists per game. He also set an NBA record for consecutive missed field goal attempts to open a season, missing his first 22 to start the 2001 season with the Atlanta Hawks. After those 22 straight misses he shot a career best 47% that season.

NBA career playing statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field goal percentage	3P%	3-point field goal percentage	FT%	Free throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

†	Denotes seasons in which Vaughn won an NBA Championship

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1997-98	Utah	45	0	9.3	.361	.375	.706	.8	1.9	.2	.0	3.1
1998-99	Utah	19	0	4.6	.367	.250	.833	.6	.6	.3	.0	2.3
1999-00	Utah	78	0	11.3	.416	.412	.750	.8	1.6	.4	.0	3.7
2000-01	Utah	82	0	19.8	.433	.385	.780	1.8	3.9	.6	.0	6.1
2001-02	Atlanta	82	16	22.6	.470	.444	.825	2.0	4.3	.8	.0	6.6
2002-03	Orlando	80	48	21.1	.448	.235	.776	1.5	2.9	.8	.0	5.9
2003-04	Atlanta	71	6	17.9	.386	.150	.779	1.6	2.7	.6	.0	3.8
2004-05	New Jersey	71	34	19.9	.449	.333	.835	1.5	1.9	.6	.0	5.3
2005-06	New Jersey	80	6	15.4	.437	.167	.728	1.1	1.5	.5	.0	3.4
2006-07†	San Antonio	64	4	11.9	.425	.500	.754	1.1	2.0	.4	.0	3.0
2007-08	San Antonio	74	9	15.4	.428	.300	.763	1.0	2.1	.3	.0	4.1
2008-09	San Antonio	30	0	9.7	.320	1.000	.889	.7	1.8	.2	.0	2.2
Career		776	123	16.3	.429	.352	.779	1.3	2.5	.5	.0	4.5

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1998	Utah	7	0	3.4	.200	.500	1.000	.4	.6	.0	.0	1.0
1999	Utah	2	0	3.0	.500	1.000	.000	.0	1.0	.0	.0	1.5
2000	Utah	7	0	9.6	.357	.500	.875	1.7	1.6	.6	.1	4.0
2001	Utah	5	0	11.4	.100	.500	.000	.4	1.6	.0	.2	.6
2003	Orlando	7	6	18.7	.364	.000	.769	.9	3.6	.6	.1	4.9
2006	New Jersey	11	0	14.5	.364	.000	.571	1.0	1.1	.2	.0	2.5
2007†	San Antonio	20	0	10.4	.400	.000	.500	.5	1.4	.2	.0	2.2
2008	San Antonio	14	0	6.5	.273	.000	.000	.6	.6	.1	.0	.9
2009	San Antonio	2	0	10.5	.400	.000	.500	.0	2.0	.5	.0	3.5
Career		75	6	10.2	.342	.400	.690	.7	1.4	.2	.0	2.2

Coaching career

Vaughn was an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs from 2010 to 2012. On July 28, 2012, Vaughn was named the new head coach of the Orlando Magic. On February 5, 2015, he was fired by the Magic.

Head coaching record

Legend
Regular season	G	Games coached	W	Games won	L	Games lost	W-L %	Win-loss %
Post season	PG	Playoff games	PW	Playoff wins	PL	Playoff losses	PW-L %	Playoff win-loss %

Team	Year	G	W	L	W-L%	Finish	PG	PW	PL	PW-L%	Result
Orlando	2012-13	82	20	62	.244	5th in Southeast	—	—	—	—	Missed Playoffs
Orlando	2013-14	82	23	59	.280	5th in Southeast	—	—	—	—	Missed Playoffs
Orlando	2014-15	52	15	37	.288	(fired)	—	—	—	—	—
Career		216	58	158	.269		—	—	—	—

Personal life

Vaughn and his wife Laura, who was his college girlfriend, have two sons, Jalen and Jeremiah. Vaughn enjoys reading and writing poetry.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]