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Joe Prunty is in his second season with the Mavericks after having served nine seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. During his time with the Spurs, they won three NBA Championships (1999, 2003 and 2005).
Prunty began his coaching career in 1992 at the high school level in San Diego where he coached at the University of San Diego High School and St. Augustine High School. While at USDHS, he coached both the Lakers’ Luke Walton and the Cubs’ Mark Prior.
He joined the Spurs in the summer of 1996 as assistant video coordinator. He was named an assistant coach at the University of San Diego in April of 1997. Prior to the start of the 1997-98 season, he returned to San Antonio as the Spurs video coordinator and was promoted to assistant coach/video coordinator during the summer of 2000.
Then in 2002-03, he was promoted to advance scout/assistant coach. For the last two summers, he has coached the Mavericks Summer League team (at the Rocky Mountain Revue in Salt Lake City in 2006 and the Vegas Summer League in Las Vegas in 2005).
In the six summers prior, he served as either a head coach or an assistant coach for the Spurs summer league squads in Boston and Salt Lake City. He has also worked a wide variety of summer camps including ABCD camp, Superstars, Pepperdine University and University of San Diego.
The Sunnyvale, California native played two years of college basketball at De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communications from California Poly San Luis Obispo in 1991. He and wife, Laura, were married in the summer of 2002. | 