About Doug Moe
Douglas Edwin Moe was an American professional basketball player and coach. A star small forward playing college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels, Moe was a two-time All-American but was accused of point shaving. He was cleared of fixing games, but was kicked out of school and blackballed from the National Basketball Association (NBA). Moe played professionally in the Italian league Lega Basket Serie A in 1965 before signing on with the upstart American Basketball Association (ABA) with the New Orleans Buccaneers in 1967, where he played with his former college teammate Larry Brown. Moe played five seasons for four teams while being named an ABA All-Star three times and winning the ABA championship in 1969 with the Oakland Oaks. In four seasons, with a high-scoring offense, the Spurs won their first ever division championships and reached the conference finals in 1979, but Moe was fired in late 1980. They won 432 games in his tenure of run-and-gun offense with nine postseason appearances, two division championships and a conference finals appearance in 1985 while Moe was named NBA Coach of the Year in 1988.
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