Kevin Maurice Johnson (born March 4, 1966) is a former professional American basketball player and Democrat Party politician who serves as 55th Mayor of Sacramento, California. She is the husband of educator Michelle Rhee. Elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012, Johnson was the first African American to serve as Mayor of Sacramento. Before entering politics, Johnson was a professional basketball player at the National Basketball Association (NBA). Johnson played point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers for part of his rookie year, and for the Phoenix Suns for the rest of his NBA career.
During his 12-year playing career, Johnson was the NBA All-Star three times and the All-NBA team the second time, and holds many records for the Phoenix Suns organization. At the University of California, Berkeley, Johnson was named the two-time All-Pac-10 Conference and the All-American honorable by the Associated Press.
Johnson holds B.A. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley that he completed after his early retirement from the NBA. Since founding St. HOPE in 1989, Johnson has been active in educational reform. As the Mayor of Sacramento, Johnson launched two educational initiatives - Stand UP and Sacramento READS! - to benefit students in Sacramento. Johnson also helped prevent the Sacramento Kings basketball team from moving to Anaheim, and, later, to Seattle, Washington.
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Johnson, son of Georgia West and Lawrence Johnson, born March 4, 1966, in Sacramento. After his father died in an accident when he was three years old, Johnson was raised by his grandparents, the Peat family. He studied at Sacramento High School, where he starred in baseball and basketball. In his senior year, Johnson leads the state of California in an appraisal (32.5 ppg) and was named the North Carolina Footballer of the Year.
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Basketball career
University of California
Johnson received a scholarship to play basketball for the University of California, Berkeley. As a four-year starter, Johnson ended his college career in 1987 as an all-time school leader in helping (since destroyed by Jason Kidd), stealing, and scoring goals (since blocked by Lamond Murray, Sean Lampley, Patrick Christopher, Joe Shipp and Jerome Randle ). Johnson was named First Team All-Conference Pac-10 in his junior and senior seasons, averaging 17.2 points and 5 assists in his final year. He led Cal to his first post-season appearance of the program in 26 seasons with NIT's bid in 1986 and 1987 and was the first player in the Pac-10 Conference to post a triple-double. In 1992 Johnson became the first gold bear to have its uniform (No. 11) retired.
Johnson briefly played for baseball teams Cal and Oakland Athletics compiled him as a shortstop in the twenty-third draft MLB 1986. After playing a few games with Oakland's small league team in Modesto, California during the summer of 1986, Johnson ended his baseball career, finding his way to professional baseball more difficult and risky than basketball.
Cleveland Cavaliers
After his senior season of college basketball, the Cleveland Cavaliers chose Johnson by choosing seventh in the 1987 NBA draft. Originally drafted by Cleveland to challenge Mark Price's incumbent point guard for the starting place, Johnson found himself playing limited minutes as Price's reserves during the 1987 NBA season- 88.
Phoenix Suns
On February 28, 1988, Johnson, Mark West, Tyrone Corbin, and future pick plans were traded to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Larry Nance's forward Mike Sanders and a future pick plan. Adjusting quickly for ever-increasing scenes and game play, Johnson excelled and the league named him the NBA Rookie Month for April 1988 as he averaged 15.1 points, free throw percentage 86.4%, 10.6 assists, and 5 , 6 rebounds.
In his first full season with Phoenix, Johnson grew to become one of the game's elite players, averaging 20.4 points, 12.2 assists, 50.5 percent field percentage, and 88.2 percent free throw percentage. With those numbers, Johnson joins Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas as the only players in NBA history to reach an average of at least 20 points and 12 assists in a single season. His rapid improvement earned him the NBA Player of the Year award from 1988-89. The 1988-89 season was the first of three straight seasons in which Johnson averaged at least 20 points and 10 assists, joining Oscar Robertson and Isiah Thomas as the only players in league history to achieve that feat. This is also the beginning of a new era for the formerly dying Suns franchise. In KJ's seven full seasons in Phoenix from 1989-1995, the Suns won the most regular season games in the NBA (394, averaging 56 and never less than 53), were the only clubs that won at least 50 each year over that range, and they won the second most playoff game (46), just trailing the Chicago Bulls.
Johnson received the berths to the NBA All-Star Team in 1990, 1991, and 1994. In the 1991 All-Star Game in Charlotte, Johnson wears 41 from his familiar number 7. NBC hosts Bob Costas and Mike Fratello speculate that decisions represent a calm way KJ in honor of Mark West's teammate, the largely unknown, Suns' stoic center who graciously executes dirty work on glass and in paint.
In the 1991 NBA All-Star Game, Johnson began with Magic Johnson in the Western Conference backcourt. In anticipation of the match, Sporting News asked whether K.J. may have surpassed Magic as the best player in court. The previous spring in the Western Conference Semifinals of 1990, Johnson led the Suns past the best Magic league, the Los Angeles Lakers 63-victory, four games into one. During the last two games, Johnson closed the series with an average of 33.5 points and a dozen assists as the Suns won Game Four and Game Five, with K.J. greatly outperformed Magic Johnson in the fourth quarter of both contests. Indeed, Johnson's clutch show leads the Hall of Fame center and NBC commentator Bill Walton to comment later, "Kevin Johnson... really came to the top of this league in the 1990 playoffs when he fired the Magic Johnson and Lakers in the early rounds. - and the Suns - took care of business in 1990, four to one over the Lakers... Kevin Johnson really surpassed the Magic. "Johnson's performance during the 1990 playoff led the Suns to second place in a row in the Western Conference Finals as Phoenix became the only the team that once beat John Stockton's Jazz (55 wins) and Magic Johnson's Lakers (63 wins) in the same postseason.
Johnson made the annual playoffs of his career after his rookie season, reversing the long-lost Phoenix Suns' fortunes. The 1992-93 Suns, led by Johnson and new teammate Charles Barkley, scored a best 62-20 NBA record and made it to the NBA Finals, where they lost to Chicago Jordan four games in two. Johnson averaged 17.8 points and 7.9 assists in the playoffs and made an NBA record for the final minutes played by recording 62 minutes in Game 3 (triumph three-three UL 129-121) vs. Bulls.
But even before Johnson played his first regular season game with Charles Barkley, he suffered an undiagnosed hernia in October 1992 as he attempted to hire newcomer Oliver Miller's team from the ground during warm-up before the pre-season game. In mid-season 1995-96, Johnson suffered an undiagnosed second hernia. Particularly because of groin, hamstring, quadriceps and other muscular strains stemming from undiagnosed hernia, Johnson missed 109 regular season games for four seasons with Barkley from 1992-1993 to 1995-1996 (though he only missed a playoff game during the game). whole career). When practicing out-of-season exercise during the summer of 1996 failed to remove the stomach and groin pain that had plagued Johnson since the middle of last season, Suns doctors finally diagnosed a second hernia right after the start of the training camp in the fall of 1996. Later, during surgery to repair the hernia, Phoenix doctors discovered a second, "hidden" hernia that has existed for four years.
Despite undiagnosed hernia problems, K.J. continued to expand in the postseason like some other point guards in the 1990s.
In 1994, he averaged 26.6 points and 9.6 assists in the postseason, scoring 38 points three different times in ten games.
In 1995, after an injury-hit regular season, Johnson returned to form a postseason. He averaged 24.8 points on 57.3% of shooting from the field and 9.3 assists in ten games, including 43 points (18-24 FG) with 9 assists in the Game Four of the Western Semifinals versus Houston and 46 points (21-22 FT) with 10 assists in Game Seven. During the series, K.J. dived more of the three-point throw (5) than he received in the 1994-95 regular season (4).
In Game Four of the previous year's series with Houston, Johnson completed a remarkable game, riding the baseline and dipping over the 7'0 "Rocket Center of Hakeem Olajuwon.The shot was a spotlight often played for centuries and was part of the second consecutive year. 38-point, 12-assist effort by point guard.
International Competition
In the summer of 1994, Johnson played with the US National Team, otherwise known as Dream Team II, in the 1994 FIBA ​​World Championship, reuniting with old team mate and point guard Mark Price to win the gold medal. Johnson led Dream Team II in both total assists (31) and assists per game (3.9), while photographing 47.1% (16-34) from the field and 50.0% (16-32) on two goalscoring spots field. US head coach Don Nelson said: "I really like having KJ on the pitch, the thing that stands out is how he sacrifices his score to become a distributor of the ball and gets his team to win.We do not need him to attack this team We need defense, penetration and He gave us all three. "
Retirement and comeback
The Kevin Johnson Corporation includes the operations of several subsidiary organizations specializing in the development and management of real estate, sports management, and business acquisitions. Key components of The Kevin Johnson Corporation include public speaking appearances and engagements for companies, academic institutions, and community organizations.
St. HOPE
In 1989, while still an NBA player, Johnson founded St. HOPE (Helping Others Pursue Excellence) as a school after-school program for children in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, California. St. HOPE was eventually expanded to run as a nonprofit umbrella organization consisting of three divisions: St. HOPE Academy, St. HOPE Public Schools, and St. HOPE Development Corporation. It includes a new vision to become a nonprofit community development company whose mission is "to revitalize society through public education, civil leadership, economic development, and the arts." Johnson served as CEO of St. HOPE until January 2008.
The St. The HOPE Development Corporation, founded in 1994, has focused its efforts on Oak Park. The Development Corporation has enabled the renovation of a number of projects including a historic bank building which is now a local Bank of America branch, a converted Victorian house into an office space, and a 25,000 square foot art gallery and retail complex that includes the Guild Theater and 40 Acres Art Gallery.
St. HOPE Public Schools is pre-K through a 12th-grade independent charter school system that provides education to nearly 2,000 students in seven small schools. One of St. The affected HOPE is the Sacramento High School (colloquially known as the Imperial College and now the Charter High School of Sacramento), where three generations of the Johnson family including him are present. In October 2002, the High Sac risked closing and being restricted to five smaller schools due to low test scores. But in January 2003, Johnson had collected seed money from the Gates Foundation and drafted a petition to reopen SMA Bag as an independent charter school. On September 2, 2003 Sac High reopened as Sacramento Charter College, a charter school with 1,450 students. Since the involvement of St. HOPE with Sac High, student performance has increased. In 2010 the Sac Sac High score increased to 719, compared to 610 in 2006. The number of students completing all the courses required for the Reception of California State Universities or California also increased between those years from 84% to 90.6%.
This improved test score attracted the attention of schools in New York and St. Louis. HOPE eventually expanded into Harlem at St. Paul's School of Leadership. St. HOPE Leadership College opened in 2008. Since 2007, the decision to expand St. HOPE to New York has been taught as a case study in Entrepreneurship in the Education Reform class at Harvard Business School. After the presentation of the case study, Johnson discussed it over lunch with Harvard students and faculty. The class works as a feeder program for students to participate in the Mayoral Fellowship Program in Sacramento.
Selection for Sacramento Mayor's Office
On March 5, 2008, Johnson announced he would run for mayor of Sacramento, his hometown, challenging the powerful Heather Fargo. Election day is June 3, 2008. Since no candidate receives a majority in nonpartisan elections, there is an abundance.
Johnson garnered support from the Sacramento Police Officers' Association (SPOA), Regional Builders, Chamber of Commerce, Association and Labor Board Realtors, among others. Johnson is also supported by Sacramento City Council members Steve Cohn (Deputy Mayor) and Sandy Sheedy, and by former Sacramento Mayor Jimmie Yee.
On June 4, 2008, Kevin Johnson, who led by 8 percentage points, forced a round selection for the mayor versus a 2-month incumbent. 374 of the 378 police stations were reported, and Johnson was in front of Mayor Heather Fargo 47% to 40%. The other five candidates share the rest of the vote. The candidates need more than 50% to win the election. Finisher third place Leonard Padilla endorsed Mayor Fargo on June 4, 2008. Johnson, at the end of May, lent his campaign $ 500,000 and raised $ 490,000, while Fargo raised $ 340,000 despite initiating a fundraiser in 2005.
the 2008 primary election for mayor of Sacramento
Johnson and Fargo had a second round of election in November, won by Johnson.
2008 runoff elections for Sacramento mayor
First term
Johnson launched nine initiatives in his first term as Mayor:
Volunteer Sacramento (2009)
Sacramento volunteers launched with Cities of Service, a bipartisan coalition of mayors established in 2009 to encourage public services. As one of the founding cities, Sacramento posted 1.7 million hours of service and created $ 22 million in economic impact in 2009. In 2010, 3 million hours of service were recorded, adding a $ 70 million economic impact in the region. For this effort, Sacramento was awarded the City of Service Leadership Grant.
For Arts' Sake was launched to increase interest and local art support of Sacramento. In response to this commitment, Sacramento was elected by John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. as the country's first city to pilot the "Any Given Child" program. The program is designed to provide equal access to art programs for K-8 children. It currently operates in Sacramento City Unified School District and Twin Rivers Unified School District.
Sacramento Step Forward (2009)
Sacramento Steps Forward is an initiative launched to end chronic homelessness in Sacramento. Johnson assumed leadership as Chair of the Regional Policy Council to End the Homeless and joined the US Conference of Mayors Task Force for Hunger and Homelessness in 2009. In 2011, 2,350 households were moved to permanent housing and Sacramento was awarded about $ 6 million through the Homeless Prevention Program and Quick Re-housing.
Stand UP (2009)
Johnson launched the STAND UP education initiative to improve student achievement in Sacramento schools with $ 6 million raised to bring innovative education and innovative programs to Sacramento.
In 2010 Johnson is the Founding Chairman of the US Conference of Duties of the Mayor General School Task Force and Co-Chair of the US Secretary of Education, Advisory Council of Mayor Arne Duncan.
Greenwise (2010)
The Greenwise Initiative was launched to diversify economic development, go green, and promote Sacramento as "Emerald Valley." Sacramento was chosen by President Obama to participate in the Better Building Challenge which provides federal investment to achieve energy efficiency. Sacramento is committed to reducing energy use by 20% by 2020 in 12 million square feet of building space. The Greenwise Initiative serves to establish a program to achieve this commitment.
Think Big (2010)
Think Big was launched to facilitate Sacramento's economic development, including the construction of a new entertainment and sports complex. Think Big oversees the progress in downtown Railyards, an area that has been left unused since 1980 and is currently one of the largest urban infill projects in the country.
Sacramento READ! (2011)
In 2011 Johnson launched another educational initiative, Sacramento READ !, in response to the "literacy crisis in Sacramento." Starting in 2011, Sacramento READ! is designed as a 10-year initiative to ensure all children in Sacramento can read at grade level by the end of grade 3 by focusing on school readiness, attendance, and limiting the loss of summer learning.
Collaborative Schools (2011)
The School-School collaboration was launched to better align city services with the school district to maximize resources to support public education.
Gang's Prevention Task Force (2011)
The Gang Prevention Task Force was launched to form a three-year city-local partnership to reduce gang violence through work-based and school-based training programs. Johnson earned more than $ 17 million in federal and state stimulus dollars for law enforcement and community policing.
2012 re-election
Kevin Johnson announced he would run for the Mayor of Sacramento election on September 14, 2011. The election day is June 5, 2012. Johnson is challenged by three individuals: Jonathan Michael Rewers, Leonard Padilla, and Richard Jones. Because Johnson receives a majority of votes (over 50% of votes), no escapement is required. Johnson raised at least $ 841,394 in re-election deals and spent $ 500,000 of it on the race.
Johnson is supported by Sacramento City Council members Angelique Ashby (Deputy Mayor), Steve Cohn, and Jay Schenirer. Johnson also received support from the Sacramento Police Officers Association, Sacramento District Local Fire Department 522, and the Sacramento Metro Room along with the pro-California Senate President Tem Darrell Steinberg, Governor Jerry Brown, and Senator Dianne Feinstein.
2012's primary election for the Sacramento Mayor
Johnson beat three other candidates with 58.74% of the vote.
Leadership roles and rewards
In June 2012 Johnson was elected as Second Vice President of the United States Mayor Conference (USCM). He became the first Sacramento mayor to be elected to the position of Second Vice President and will become the first Sacramento mayor to serve as President, which he will assume in 2014. This is the second national leadership position that Johnson assumed in 2012, since he was previously elected First Vice-President of the Black National Mayor's Conference, where he served as president in 2013. After becoming president of the Black Mayor National Conference (NCBM), Johnson took steps that resulted in the dissolution of the organization.
Johnson has worked on the board of directors for the University of California Alumni Association, Phoenix Suns Charities, Christian Athlete Ministries, Phoenix Symphony, School House Foundation, Jobs for American Graduates (JAG), and an advisory board for the Caring Institute.
Johnson has received many awards for his dedication and contribution to his community. In 1991, Former President George H. W. Bush honored Johnson as a recipient of Light Point 411 in recognition of Johnson's care and compassion for children and education. In addition to being selected as one of the "Biggest Men on Earth" by McCall's, Johnson has received the NBA J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award, the John R. Wooden Lifetime Achievement Award 2008, the Good Morning America Award from Sports Illustrated , "Caring Institute's Most Caring American Award" and entered the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame in Boise, Idaho.
Controversy
Sexually harassing and abuse allegations
During the summer of 1995, a sixteen-year-old girl living in her home accused Johnson of harassing her. Johnson apologized to the girl when she confronted him with the charge during a telephone conversation recorded by Phoenix police. However, he also stated that "what you say happens, I do not completely agree to happen." The Sacramento Bee stated that they had received a copy of the proposed settlement agreement, in which Johnson would pay the girl's family $ 230,000. After conducting an investigation, the Maricopa District Attorney Office refused to sue, arguing that there was no possibility of a reasonable belief. On October 8, 2015, a press account emerged from a 1996 police video showing detectives saying there was a possibility of him torturing him and others.
Investigation of secondary school
On April 16, 2008, competing mayor candidate Leonard Padilla shared a 2007 report of similar allegations made against Johnson at St. HOPE Sacramento High School. The allegations were investigated by local police, but no allegations were filed. On 29 April 2008, a group of female civilian leaders including former Sacramento Mayor Ann Rudin, Sacramento Municipal Utility District district councilor Genevieve Shiroma, and former State Senator Deborah Ortiz demanded the release of a police report on the matter.
The teacher to whom the student initially brought the complaint then resigned over the incident, claiming, "St. HOPE attempted to intimidate students through illegal interrogation and even had the courage to ask me to change my story." Two classmates and a school counselor confirmed the teacher's version of the show. Sacramento Police Chief Rick Braziel replied, "I think the charges at school are handled the way you want them to handle, and soon they follow all the normal protocols they should be following, I think that's pretty clear there." there's nothing there... We asked the young lady if anyone had influenced her - the answer was no. "Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness said on May 30, 2008, that Johnson's actions, though mistaken, are not illegal.
St. HOPE Academy allegedly abusing AmeriCorps funds
On April 9, 2009, Acting US Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced that St. HOPE Academy has agreed to pay $ 423,836.50 for ten years in the settlement of allegations that it does not accurately spend AmeriCorps grants and educational awards and does not adequately document grant expenditures. The settlement amount represents half of the $ 847,673 in AmeriCorps funds received by St. HOPE Academy for three years from 2004 to 2007. Johnson, founder and former CEO of St. HOPE Academy, agreed to pay $ 72,836.50 from the initial payment of St. HOPE Academy $ 73,836.50. On completion, St. HOPE Academy acknowledged that it did not adequately document some of AmeriCorps's grant expenditures, and the Corporation for National Services and Communities ended the suspension of September 24, 2008 from St. HOPE Academy and Johnson from receiving federal funds, ending questions about Sacramento's eligibility to receive federal stimulus funds.
Problems with real estate
In 2007, Sacramento Bee investigated Johnson's real estate holdings in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, and found that more than half of the properties owned by Johnson and various entities have been cited for various code violations, including for fire risk from overgrown vegetation, dead animals, rubbish and debris on the property, and buildings damaged and damaged by fire. A local group, OPUS (Oak Park United against Slumlords) complained that Johnson "halt progress" in Oak Park by refusing to develop a major property in the community.
The olfactory incident
Johnson attended a charity event at Sacramento Charter High School on September 21, 2016, when a man approached him and hit his face with a pie. Johnson then allegedly attacked his assailant, then accused of defending himself. The perpetrator, Sean Thompson, was arrested on charges of committing a criminal offense against public officials and a minor violation of the battery in the school property.
Personal life
Johnson married Michelle Rhee, former Chancellor of the District of Columbia School System, on September 3, 2011, in front of 40 people in a Tennessee mountain resort. They originally planned to get married the year before, but decided to postpone it amid a large amount of media attention on their marriage.
See also
- The National Basketball Association career list assists leaders
- The National Basketball Association's career playoff list helps leaders
- List of National Basketball Association players with most assists in the game
- List of National Basketball Association players by stealing the most in one game
References
External links
- The Sacramento Mayor's Office
- Kevin Johnson's Official Website for the Mayor
- Interview with Kevin Johnson at PMAKid.com
- St. HOPE
- Volunteer Volunteers
- For Arts' Sake
- Sacramento Step Forward
- STANDING
- Greenwise
- Think Big Sacramento
- Sacramento READ!
- The allegation of a sexual offense by a minor by Kevin Johnson is found in a statement of alleged 16-year-old victim at the Phoenix Police Department Report
- Transcript recording of conversation between Kevin Johnson (KJ) and alleged victim (AK) contained in Phoenix Police Department Report
- 4/30/07 Suspected Child Torture Report files allegations against Kevin Johnson at ST Hope Sacramento High
- Appearance in C-SPAN
NBA
- Career statistics and player information from Basketball-Reference.com
- NBA Encyclopedia Profile
- Phoenix Suns Legends
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