b. Feb. 15, 1964, Bartlesville
High School: Enid High
Mark Price, NBA Player, 1994 Olympic Dream Team. Mark excelled as a star player in the National Basketball Association for twelve years. He ended his professional basketball career as the best ever free-throw shooter in NBA history, making 90.4 percent throughout his career. In 1982 Mark, a graduate of Enid High School, was named the Oklahoma high school player of the year. Mark led his state class in scoring his junior and senior seasons.Price left Oklahoma after graduating from high school to play college basketball at Georgia Tech. He led the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring as a freshman over Michael Jordan. He made the All-Conference team three times and ended his Georgia Tech stint as their second all-time scorer.The Dallas Mavericks selected Price in the second round of the1986 NBA draft and traded him to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Mark holds many Cleveland franchise career records (assists, steals, free throw percentage, and three-point field goals made and attempted).
In 1995 Cleveland traded him to the Washington Bullets, now the Wizards. In 1996 the Golden State Warriors signed Price and then traded him to the Orlando Magic in 1997. Price averaged 15.2 points and 6.7 assists for his entire career and achieved All-Star status four of his twelve professional years. Besides his prowess at the free-throw line, Price made over 40 percent of his three-point shots. He scored over ten thousand points and won the NBA long distance shootout twice on All-Star weekend.After retiring from the NBA in 1998, Price, his wife, Laura, and their children settled in Georgia where he coached basketball. Both of Mark's brothers, Matt and Brent, played college basketball, with Brent following his older brother into the NBA.