Amateur career

Born in Danville, Virginia, Newman attended George Washington High School in Danville, playing for the Eagles under local Hall of Fame coach Harry Johnson before going on to play college basketball at Richmond. Newman is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

Newman graduated from Richmond in 1986 as the school's all-time leader in points with 2,383. He was known as an expert marksman in college, with a .532 career field goal percentage and .800 career free throw percentage mark.

Newman led Richmond twice to the NCAA Tournament. In the 1984 Tournament, Newman and the underdog, 12th-seeded Richmond Spiders upset the 5th-seeded Auburn Tigers, led by future Basketball Hall-of-Famer Charles Barkley, in the first round. They fell to the 4th-seeded Indiana Hoosiers in the 2nd round. In the 1986 NCAA Tournament, Richmond was seeded 11th in the East region and lost in the first round to 6th-seeded Saint Joseph's.

After college, Newman was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2nd round, with the 29th overall pick, of the 1986 NBA Draft.

Professional career

The Cleveland Cavaliers' group of selections in the 1986 NBA Draft was one of the best ever for the franchise, and among the best for any team. In that draft, the Cavaliers acquired the rights to future All-Stars Mark Price, Brad Daugherty, and Ron Harper. Since Harper and Newman played the same position, Newman was forced to ride the bench during his rookie season.

Newman joined the New York Knicks for the 1987-1988 season, and slowly worked his way into the starting lineup. Along with teammates Mark Jackson and Patrick Ewing, Newman lead the Knicks into the playoffs and averaged 19.0 ppg (including 35 points in game 3) in an opening round loss to the Boston Celtics. In 1988-89, Newman further grew into his role in the starting five. He averaged 16.0 ppg and led the Knicks to the NBA's Atlantic Division title.

After the 1989-90 season, Newman signed as a free agent with the Charlotte Hornets, an expansion franchise in its 3rd year of existence.

Newman was traded by the New Jersey Nets along with Stephon Marbury after the 2000-01 NBA season in exchange for Jason Kidd.

Newman scored 12,740 points in his NBA career.

Newman was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.

NBA career 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

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1986-87	Cleveland	59	0	10.7	.411	.045	.868	1.2	.5	.3	.1	5.0
1987-88	New York	77	25	20.6	.435	.280	.841	2.1	.8	.9	.1	10.0
1988-89	New York	81	80	28.8	.475	.338	.815	2.5	2.0	1.4	.3	16.0
1989-90	New York	80	69	28.5	.476	.317	.799	2.4	2.3	1.2	.3	12.9
1990-91	Charlotte	81	81	30.6	.470	.357	.809	3.1	2.3	1.2	.2	16.9
1991-92	Charlotte	55	55	30.0	.477	.283	.766	3.3	2.7	1.3	.3	15.3
1992-93	Charlotte	64	27	23.0	.522	.267	.808	2.2	1.8	.7	.3	11.9
1993-94	Charlotte	18	18	23.8	.523	.250	.814	3.2	1.6	1.0	.3	13.0
1993-94	New Jersey	63	0	20.1	.453	.270	.807	1.9	.7	.8	.3	9.5
1994-95	Milwaukee	82	11	23.1	.463	.352	.801	2.1	1.1	.8	.2	7.7
1995-96	Milwaukee	82	82	32.8	.495	.377	.802	2.4	1.9	1.1	.2	10.8
1996-97	Milwaukee	82	4	25.1	.450	.347	.765	2.3	1.4	.9	.2	8.7
1997-98	Denver	74	15	29.4	.431	.343	.820	1.9	1.9	1.0	.3	14.7
1998-99	Cleveland	50	2	19.0	.422	.377	.810	1.5	.8	.6	.2	6.1
1999-2000	New Jersey	82	9	21.5	.446	.379	.838	1.9	.8	.6	.1	10.0
2000-01	New Jersey	82	17	25.0	.419	.335	.855	2.1	1.4	.8	.1	10.9
2001-02	Dallas	47	17	15.4	.453	.386	.724	1.0	.3	.6	.1	4.2
Career		1,159	512	24.5	.461	.336	.810	2.2	1.5	.9	.2	11.0

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1988	New York	4	2	28.3	.456	.000	.875	2.8	1.8	1.5	.3	19.0
1989	New York	9	9	28.7	.467	.250	.776	2.8	1.9	.9	.1	16.1
1990	New York	10	0	23.1	.447	.400	.755	2.1	1.0	.9	.3	11.7
1993	Charlotte	9	9	19.2	.509	.200	.688	2.1	2.0	1.1	.1	7.6
1994	New Jersey	4	0	13.5	.231	.250	.714	1.3	.5	.5	.5	3.0
2002	Dallas	3	2	7.3	.143	.167	-	.0	.7	.0	.0	1.0
Career		39	22	21.8	.451	.226	.766	2.1	1.4	.9	.2	10.8

Filmography

Played in the 1997 film Shadow Conspiracy with Charlie Sheen, Linda Hamilton, Donald Sutherland and Gore Vidal.

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