Corperryale Lādorable "Manny" Harris (born September 21, 1989) is an American professional
basketball
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player for
Al Riyadi Beirut
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of the
Lebanese Basketball League
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. He has previously played for the
Los Angeles Lakers
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,
Cleveland Cavaliers
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, and
Dallas Mavericks
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of the
National Basketball Association
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(NBA), and is a former All-
Big Ten Conference
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guard
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who played three seasons for the
Michigan Wolverines
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.
He decided to forgo his final year of collegiate eligibility and declare himself
eligible for the
2010 NBA draft
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, but went undrafted. He signed with the Cavaliers of the
National Basketball Association
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(NBA). He began his second year injured and rehabbed for two months in the
NBA D-League
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with Cavaliers' affiliate, the
Canton Charge
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, before being re-signed by the Cavaliers. He signed with BC Azovmash of Ukraine in September 2012 and spent 2012–13 playing in the
Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague
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. For the following two seasons he split time in the NBA, NBA D-League and in the
Turkish Basketball Super League
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. He is an NBA D-League All-star and six-time D-League performer of the week. He has set single-game scoring records for the Legends, Charge and D-Fenders franchises.
At Michigan, he was a
2008–09 first team All-Big Ten Conference selection, a
2007–08 second team All-Big Ten selection and a
2009–10 third team All-Big Ten selection.
[ Harris also earned Big Ten Academic All-Conference honors as both a sophomore and a junior after the 2008–09 and 2009–10 Big Ten Conference regular seasons.] Harris began the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 9, 2009, and ended with the 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament's championship game on April 5, 2010, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. The openin ...
by recording the second triple double
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in school history.
Harris previously attended Redford High School
Redford High School was a secondary school in Detroit, Michigan. A part of Detroit Public Schools, the school opened in September 1921 and ceased operations in June 2007. Staffed and operated by the Detroit Public Schools; Redford High School se ...
in Detroit
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, Michigan
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, where he won the state's Mr. Basketball award as a senior.[ Harris is one of only five Big Ten Conference basketball players to have finished in the top ten in the conference in scoring, rebounding, and assist average in the same season and prior to ]Evan Turner
Evan Marcel Turner (born October 27, 1988) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He was most recently an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted second overall ...
's 2009–10 season, Harris' 2008–09 season was the only time a player had finished in the top six of all three categories.
High school
Born in Detroit, Michigan
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, Harris was a 2005 Class A All-State fifth team selection as a sophomore by ''The Detroit News
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''.[ He was an '']Associated Press
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'' Class A All-State first team selection in each of the next two seasons. Harris was selected as the 2007 Mr. Basketball of Michigan. That season he led the Redford to the Michigan High School Athletic Association
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Class A championship game, which it lost to Saginaw High School
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The school was established in 1865 as East Side High Scho ...
. During his high school basketball career, he became the first player to start for three consecutive Detroit Public School League championship teams since Jalen Rose
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and Voshon Lenard
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College care ...
had done so from 1989 to 1991. At Redford, Harris once recorded 52 points and 15 rebounds. During the 2006–07 season, his last at Redford, Harris averaged 33.5 points, 11.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists.[ Harris was highly recruited, receiving offers from ]Tennessee
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, UCLA
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, Wisconsin
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, George Washington
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, and Indiana
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before committing to the University of Michigan
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. He was ranked by Rivals.com as the sixth-best shooting guard
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in the country in the 2007 high school class,[ while Scout.com ranked him the twelfth-best shooting guard. ]ESPN
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ranked him #7, but they listed him as a point guard
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A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position and is usually the shortest player ...
. When Michigan announced that it would replace Tommy Amaker
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with John Beilein
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as head coach
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, Harris was initially unsure if he would honor his signed letter of intent
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, but when Michigan re-signed assistant coach Mike Jackson, he again decided to attend the school.
College career
Freshman year
Prior to the 2007–08 basketball season, Freshman Harris was selected as a second team pre-season All-Big Ten Conference
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selection.[ He started every game for the 2007–08 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team. He scored 13 points and tallied 4 steals in his debut on November 9 against . After the 2007–08 NCAA basketball season, Harris was selected as a second team All-Big Ten Conference selection and an All-Freshman team selection. He led the Wolverines in scoring (16.4), assists (2.8), steals (1.5), minutes (32.9) and ]free throw
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percentage (82.0). Among his highlights during the season were being named to the Great Alaska Shootout
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tournament team, becoming the fourth U-M freshman to score over 500 points in first season (516), and setting the U-M freshman record for free throw
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s made in a season while playing at least 20 minutes and starting every game.[ During the season, he keyed the first three-game winning streak of the season for the team, which earned him his first Big Ten Player of the Week Award.
]
Sophomore year
As a 2008–09 first team pre-season All-Big Ten player, he was the first Wolverine to earn the honor since Daniel Horton in 2004. Although he was the leading returning scorer and top draft prospect, Purdue
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's Robbie Hummel
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was named Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year. Preseason All-Big Ten status has not always led to regular season honors. In both 2005 and 2007, only two preseason selections made the regular season team.[ Harris opened the 2008–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball season with a career-high 30 points in a 77–55 victory over ]Michigan Tech
Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech, MTU, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Houghton, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School, the first post-secondary institution in the Uppe ...
on November 11. The following night in the second game of the Coaches vs. cancer classic, Harris nearly posted a triple double
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when he posted 26 points, and career-highs with 10 rebounds and 8 assists in a 76–56 win against Northeastern University
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. This quick start earned Harris the November 17, 2008 Big Ten Player of the Week Award. Harris led the Big Ten Conference in scoring until the second to last game of the preconference schedule when he snapped a ten-game double digit scoring streak. Throughout the season, he continued to battle with fellow sophomores Evan Turner
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and Talor Battle
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for the Big Ten scoring leadership. On February 5, Harris was selected along with Kalin Lucas
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High school career
Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Lucas was listed as the No. 6 point ...
as one of only two Big Ten John R. Wooden Award
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2008–09 Midseason Top 30 Candidates. On March 5, the National Association of Basketball Coaches
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honored Harris as a District 7 (Big Ten) first-team selection along with four other sophomores (Lucas, Turner, Battle, and JaJuan Johnson). On March 9 after the conclusion of the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season
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, he was named to the first team All-Big Ten by both the Big Ten coaches and the Big Ten media along with the same four sophomores.[ He was also chosen on March 10 by the ]U.S. Basketball Writers Association
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Scholarships
The US ...
for its 2008–09 Men's Division I District V (OH, IN, IL, MI, MN, WI) Team, based on voting from its national membership. On March 26 Harris was honored as one of four Michigan men's basketball Winter Sports Big Ten Academic All-Conference selections.
Harris, at 86.3% (176/204), was NCAA free throw shooting percentage champion. Harris led the Wolverines in points, minutes, assists and steals. Additionally, Harris finished one behind teammate DeShawn Sims for the team leadership rebounds.[ In the Big Ten, Harris ranked first (or second depending on the source) in free throw percentage,] first in free throws made, second in points per game, fifth in assists per game,[ and sixth in rebounds per game.][ Harris and ]Evan Turner
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(who led the Big Ten in scoring) were the only Big Ten players to finish in the conference's top 10 in total points, rebounds, assists, and steals.[ They are the 4th and 5th players in conference history to finish in the top ten in average points, rebounds, and assists since assists became a statistic in 1983–84. Of these five, Harris was the only one to finish in the top six in each stat prior to Turner's 2009–10 season.
]
Junior year
Entering the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
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for the 2009–10 Wolverines, Harris was named to the FOX Sports
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preseason All-American list included him on its second team. Harris and Sims were named among the 50 preseason Wooden Award
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watch list nominees. Harris was also named to the preseason Naismith College Player of the Year
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watchlist. The 24-member Big Ten media panel selected Harris as a first team preseason All-Big Ten team member.
Harris opened the season by recording the second triple double
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in school history ( Gary Grant was the first) against Division II Northern Michigan
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. This earned him his third Big Ten player of the week honor. Harris was suspended prior to the January 23 game against #13 Purdue
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due to unsportsmanlike conduct in one of the team's practices. Harris was named as a finalist for the 2010 Bob Cousy Award
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and a Midseason Top-30 finalist for the 2010 John Wooden Award
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. At the conclusion of the regular season, he was named a third-team All-Big Ten selection by both the conference coaches and the media. He was recognized as an All-District second-team selection by the National Association of Basketball Coaches
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making him eligible for the State Farm Division I All‐America teams. Since the Big Ten Conference
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was its own district, this is equivalent to being named second team All-Big Ten by the NABC. Harris concluded his junior season with 484 free throws made. Cazzie Russell
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holds the official Michigan career record with 486 with Louis Bullock
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Although his records have officially been vacated, due to the University of Michigan basketball scandal, his vacated records are unsurpassed for mos ...
's 505 total having been vacated due to the University of Michigan basketball scandal
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. He joined Jalen Rose
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and Mike McGee as the only Wolverines to amass 1600 points over a three-year period.[ Harris finished the season among the Big Ten Conference leaders in several statistical categories including: fourth in scoring, tenth in rebounds, fifth in assists, seventh in free throw percentage, second in steals (1.83 to 1.81), and eighth in minutes played.
]
2010 NBA draft
On March 29, Harris held a press conference in which he announced his intentions to enter the NBA draft. Multiple draft outlets ranked Harris as likely to be drafted in the 2nd round or go undrafted. Two days after the announcement, Harris was recognized as an Academic All-Conference performer again.[ Harris suffered a hamstring injury shortly before the draft, which hampered his draft workouts and draft potential. Harris was undrafted in the 2010 NBA draft.]
College statistics
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, style="text-align:left;", Michigan Wolverines
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, 32 , , 32 , , 33.1 , , .381 , , .318 , , .817 , , 4.2 , , 2.7 , , 1.4 , , .2 , , 16.1
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, style="text-align:left;", 2008–09
, style="text-align:left;", Michigan Wolverines
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, 35 , , 35 , , 32.9 , , .414 , , .327 , , .863 , , 6.7 , , 4.4 , , 1.2 , , .5 , , 16.8
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2009–10
, style="text-align:left;", Michigan Wolverines
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, 31 , , 30 , , 36.1 , , .421 , , .308 , , .800 , , 6.0 , , 4.1 , , 1.8 , , .4 , , 18.1
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, style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career
, 98 , , 97 , , 34.0 , , .406 , , .318 , , .827 , , 5.7 , , 3.7 , , 1.5 , , .4 , , 17.0
Professional career
Cleveland Cavaliers (2010–2011)
Harris played for the Cleveland Cavaliers
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in the NBA Summer League
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in 2010. He saw limited action due to the same ankle injury that impaired his draft status. After being an undrafted player from Michigan for about 3 months, Harris joined the Cleveland Cavaliers with a #6 jersey number as a non-guaranteed free agent member of the 20-man preseason roster. Harris made the final roster. He made his debut on October 29 against the Toronto Raptors
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in which he scored 8 points. Harris' agent is Henry Thomas. After compiling a 7–14 record in the first 21 games, head coach Byron Scott
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shuffled the lineup on December 8, and Harris played twenty-one minutes that night.
On December 29, Harris made his first start when Mo Williams
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was recovering from an injury and Harris earned the surprise start instead of Ramon Sessions
Ramon Darrell Sessions (born April 11, 1986) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Nevada Wolf Pack, earning WAC All-Newcomer Team as a freshman and second-team All-WAC as a junior. He was dr ...
, scoring 8 points. In his fourth start on January 7 against the Golden State, Harris posted his first double-double
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with career highs of 16 points and 10 rebounds and added 3 steals and 4 assists, too. Then, on January 9, he posted a new career-high 27 points against the Phoenix Suns
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. With the return of Daniel Gibson and Anthony Parker
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to the lineup he saw little action until February 23.
Harris was waived by the Cavaliers on December 22, 2011. The transaction came as the 2011–12 Cavaliers made their final cuts from 17 to 15 players. The move, which surprisingly left Mychel Thompson
Mychel Thompson (born June 1, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Pepperdine Waves. His father, Mychal Thompson, and brother, Klay Thompson, are also basketball players. His youngest b ...
on the roster, was attributed to a freezer burn
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Freezer burn appears as gray ...
that Harris suffered on his foot during the 2011 NBA lockout
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in a cooling chamber designed to augment recuperation from injuries at the Nike
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facility in Oregon.
Canton Charge (2011–2012)
On December 28, 2011, Harris signed with the Canton Charge
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of the NBA Development League
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(D-League). The Charge are the D-League affiliate of the Cavaliers, but the Cavaliers had no exclusive rights to Harris. He was signed under the NBA Development League's player affiliate rule allowing ". . .D-League teams to acquire up to three players that were waived from their affiliate's NBA training camp that do not otherwise have their rights held by another team." After about a week of rehab with the Charge, he was getting close to returning to the court with the Charge. Technically, he was waived by the team, but the Charge retained their rights to him during his rehab. On January 9, he was readded to the roster by the Charge, and he scored 15 points for the team on the 10th in his debut.
On January 24, he contributed a game-high 32-point effort against the Springfield Armor
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, surpassing both his professional career-high of 27 set on January 9, 2011, with Cleveland and his post- secondary career-high 30 set on November 11, 2008, with Michigan. He earned the NBA Development League Performer of the Week for games played from January 23–29 for his three-game performance in which he averaged 25.0 points, 7.3 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 2.0 steals in 34.3 minutes per contest. On February 3, Harris logged his professional career-high 14 rebounds along with 21 points on his way to his second D-League double-double against the Austin Toros
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. On February 16, Harris posted a new career high 46 points along with 9 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals against the Rio Grande Valley Vipers
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. This is a Charge record for the franchise since its move to Canton. In the rematch two nights later, he added 36 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 steals. He became the first player to earn two player of the week awards in the 2011–12 season when the league recognized him for his performance for the week of February 13–19. In 17 games for Canton, he had averages of 21.4 points, 7.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.6 blocks per game, while shooting 47% from the field and 40.9% on three-point shots.[
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Return to Cleveland (2012)
On February 21, the Cleveland Cavaliers announced they had signed Harris to a 10-day contract. He was re-signed on March 2 to a second 10-day contract. After the second 10-day contract expired on March 11 and with the trade deadline approaching on March 15, the Cavaliers opted not to sign Harris to a guaranteed contract for the rest of the season.
On March 17, 2012, the Cavaliers re-signed Harris for the remainder of the season. On March 21, Harris moved into the main rotation and began playing about 20 minutes or more per game. On April 6 with Parker, Kyrie Irving
Kyrie Andrew Irving ( ; , ; born March 23, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named the Rookie of the Year after being selected by the Cleveland Cav ...
and Gibson all injured, Harris made his first start of the season and 16th of his career against the Toronto Raptors
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. On April 20, Harris posted his first NBA double-double of the season with 19 points and a game-high and career-high 12 rebounds against the New York Knicks
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. In two seasons with the Cavaleiers, Harris averaged 6.2 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 17.4 minutes in 80 games (including 20 starts).[
On July 2, 2012, the Cavaliers waived Harris. Harris then joined the ]Houston Rockets
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for the 2012 NBA Summer League
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.
BC Azovmash (2012–2013)
On September 13, 2012, Harris signed with BC Azovmash
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Mariupol was one of the strongest teams in Ukraine along with Kyiv, Khimik, and Cher ...
in Ukraine.
Los Angeles D-Fenders (2013–2014)
On September 27, 2013, Harris signed with the Orlando Magic
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for training camp. A long shot to make the 15-man roster, Harris was waived on October 25. On December 7, Harris' rights were acquired by Los Angeles D-Fenders
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in a trade with the Canton Charge
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. In his D-Fenders debut on December 14, 2013, against the Santa Cruz Warriors
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, he scored 41 points. He also had a professional career-high 5 steals, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. On December 16, he was one of the top D-League players of the week. On December 23, he was again one of the top D-league players of the week, based on a pair of 20+ point performances. He was also a finalist for D-League Player of the Month. Harris averaged 29.3 points per game for the week ending January 5, leading his team in scoring and to victory in each of the three games. As a result, he earned his first D-League player of the week award of the season and third of his career. On January 10, Harris posted 49 points along with 6 rebounds, 3 steals, 3 assists and a block against the Idaho Stampede
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. The 49 points was a Los Angeles D-Fenders franchise record. and tied the 2013–14 NBADL season high set earlier by Pierre Jackson
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.[ On January 13, Harris earned his second consecutive NBA Development League Performer of the Week award.] On January 13, Harris scored 42 against the Maine Red Claws
The Maine Celtics are an American professional basketball team in the NBA G League based in Portland, Maine, and are affiliated with the Boston Celtics. The Maine Celtics play their home games at the Portland Expo Building. The Boston Celtics pu ...
to improve his season scoring average to 30.6, taking the league lead from Jackson. In 13 games with the D-Fenders, Harris averaged a league-leading 30.6 points, league-leading 8.9 free throws made and a league-leading 10.2 free throws attempted. He also averaged 6.5 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.1 steals (6th in the league), while shooting 48.5%.[
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Los Angeles Lakers (2014)
On January 16, 2014, Harris signed a 10-day contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. On January 26, he signed a second 10-day contract after averaging 6.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 20.9 minutes in 5 games. The Lakers were enduring injuries of guards Kobe Bryant
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, Steve Nash
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, Steve Blake
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, Jordan Farmar
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, and Xavier Henry
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. After re-signing, Harris posted a season high 18 points that night against the New York Knicks
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.
On February 3, 2014, Harris was named to the Futures All-Star roster for the 2014 NBA D-League All-Star Game. At the time of the announcement, Harris was one of at five players on an NBA roster that were selected, but who had played over half of their D-League team's games through January 26. On February 4, the eve of the end of Harris' second 10-day contract, the Lakers appeared to be returning to good health, with the return of Nash, Blake and Farmar to the lineup imminent. That night, although Nash and Blake returned to the starting lineup against Minnesota
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, Jodie Meeks
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and Jordan Hill were injured in the first quarter and Harris contributed 19 points and 8 rebounds even though he had been told before the game he would not be re-signed.
Return to D-Fenders (2014)
On February 7, 2014, Harris was re-acquired by the D-Fenders. On February 8, 2014, Harris again set a new D-Fenders franchise scoring record, this time with 56 points, while adding 15 rebounds against the Santa Cruz Warriors
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. It was two points shy of the league record set by Jackson four days earlier. He was a nominee for D-League Player of the Week, but Jackson won. Harris played 12 minutes in the February 15 D-League All-Star game. Afterwards, he missed some games due to an ankle injury. He was a finalist for player of the week on March 3 and 10.
Türk Telekom (2014)
After playing a total of 22 games in the NBA D-League for the D-Fenders and averaging 31.6 points, 7.9 rebounds and 3.7 assists, Harris signed with Türk Telekom B.K.
Türk Telekom Basketbol Kulübü (English language, English: Turk Telekom Basketball Club) is a professional basketball team that is based in Ankara, Turkey. The team is currently playing in the Turkish Basketball Super League. It is a branch of t ...
of the Turkish Basketball League on March 13.
Third stint with D-Fenders (2014)
On November 1, 2014, Harris was reacquired by the Los Angeles D-Fenders. On December 6, Harris posted a triple-double with 23 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds to help the D-fenders defeat the Reno Bighorns
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. On December 20, Harris recorded his second triple-double of the season with 39 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds in an historic win. The D-Fenders set new NBA Development League records of most points scored in a single quarter, half and game en route to a 175–152 win over Reno. On December 22, Harris earned his first D-League Performer of the Week of the season and fifth of his career.
Eskişehir Basket (2014–2015)
On December 30, Harris left Los Angeles in order to sign with Eskişehir Basket
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of the Turkish Basketball League
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the following day.
Fourth run with D-Fenders (2015)
On October 31, 2015, Harris returned to the Los Angeles D-Fenders for a fourth stint. He began the season as a finalist for performer of the week during the first week and a half of the season.
Texas Legends (2015–2016)
On December 14, Harris was traded to the Texas Legends
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in exchange for the returning player rights to Damion James
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High school ca ...
.
Return to Türk Telekom (2016)
On January 26, 2016, Harris left Texas and signed with Türk Telekom
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for a second stint.
Anhui Dragons (2016)
In May 2016, Harris signed in China with the Anhui Dragons
Anhui Wenyi Basketball Club, (in Chinese: 安徽文一篮球俱乐部) commonly known as simply Anhui Wenyi, are a Chinese professional basketball club based in Hefei, Anhui. The team plays in the National Basketball League. Founded in 2013, Weny ...
for the 2016 NBL season.
Return to Texas (2016–2017)
On October 30, 2016, Harris was reacquired by the Texas Legends. On November 12, Harris established a Texas Legends franchise record by scoring 49 points in the season opener against the Maine Red Claws. The total was a record for a Red Claw opponent. On December 27, the Dallas Mavericks
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signed Pierre Jackson
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to a two-year NBA contract from the Legends. On December 28, Harris posted 47 in a win for the Legends. On January 2, 2017, Harris again earned NBA Development League Performer of the Week based on his 38.0 points average on 57.4 percent shooting as well as 5.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game in two games on December 28 against the Austin Spurs
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and December 30 against the Reno Bighorns
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. At the time he was leading the D-League in scoring and was second in steals. Despite leading the league in scoring, Harris was not selected to the 2017 D-League All-Star team.
Dallas Mavericks (2017)
On March 8, 2017, the Dallas Mavericks
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signed Harris to a 10-day contract. Harris had been the NBA D-League leading scorer at the time of the signing with averages of 26.3 points, 7.6 rebounds, 4.0 assists, and 2.2 steals. He made his debut for the Mavericks later that day during a 105–96 win over the Brooklyn Nets
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, playing two minutes off the bench. On March 18, the Mavericks announced that they would re-sign Harris to a second 10-day contract. During the 2016–17 season, Harris was assigned multiple times to the Texas Legends. Harris was not resigned by the Mavericks after his second 10-day contract expired.
Return to Anhui (2017)
On July 29, 2017, Harris re-joined the Anhui Dragons of the National Basketball League. Harris was recognized as Asia-Basket.com All-Chinese NBL Player of the Year and Asia-Basket.com All-Chinese NBL Import Player of the Year in 2016 as he helped Anhui Dragons win the Chinese NBL championship title in 2016 with averages of 31.5ppg, 7.2rpg, 3.7apg and 2.7spg.
AEK B.C. (2017–2018)
On August 12, 2017, Harris signed a one-year contract with Greek club AEK
A.E.K. (; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople'') is a major Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadelfeia, Attica. The club is more commonly known in European competitions as A.E.K. Athens.
Established ...
. Harris was selected the MVP of the 14th round of the FIBA Champions League
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2017–18 season. Harris posted 21 points in the February 11, 2018, HEBA Greek All Star Game
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. He was also named the MVP of the 2017–18 Greek Cup
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The Greek Cup is the second-most important domestic men's footba ...
tournament, after leading AEK Athens to victory. He also earned 2017– FIBA Champions League regular season MVP, as AEK earned the 2018 FIBA Basketball Champions League championship.
Rytas Vilnius (2018)
On September 3, 2018, Harris signed with Greek club Olympiacos
Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós (, Olympic Association of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number of different competitive departments which participate in football, ...
, for their preseason practices, while their rosters were depleted due to the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification
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events. On October 9, Harris signed with Rytas Vilnius.
Bahçeşehir Koleji S.K. (2018–2019)
On December 14, Harris signed with Bahçeşehir Koleji S.K.
NLEX Road Warriors (2019)
On October 17, 2019, Harris joined the NLEX Road Warriors
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of the Philippine Basketball Association
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for the PBA Governor's Cup. In his PBA Debut, Harris had an impressive statline of 45 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in a win 117–111 win over Columbian Dyip.
Hapoel Holon (2020)
On December 10, 2019, Harris signed with the Shandong Golden Stars
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of the Chinese Basketball Association
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The league is commonly known by fans as the CBA, and this acronym is even used in Chinese on a regular basis ...
. He parted ways with the Golden Stars after the CBA season was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. On February 9, 2020, Harris signed with Hapoel Holon
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of the Israeli Premier League
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for the rest of the season.
On February 15, 2020, he made his debut in a 90–86 win over Hapoel Tel Aviv
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, recording 22 points and four rebounds off the bench. He played three games for the team., averaging 22 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 3.3 assists per game.["Manny Harris,"]
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Shandong Heroes (2020–2021)
On October 4, 2020, Harris signed with the Shandong Heroes of the CBA. On November 5, he was named CBA player of the week after posting 44 points and ten rebounds, while his team defeated the Nanjing Monkey Kings
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The Chinese Basketball Association (), often abbreviated as the CB ...
.
Return to AEK (2021)
On July 29, 2021, Harris signed back with AEK Athens
A.E.K. (; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople'') is a major Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadelfeia, Attica. The club is more commonly known in European competitions as A.E.K. Athens.
Establishe ...
of the Greek Basket League
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and the Basketball Champions League
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. He left the team on October 3.
Kaohsiung Steelers
On March 2, 2022, Harris signed with Kaohsiung Steelers
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of the Taiwanese P. League+ for the remainder of the season.
Return to Hapoel Holon (2023)
On February 25, 2023, he signed with Hapoel Holon
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of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
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.
Merkezefendi Bld. Denizli Basket (2023)
On April 28, 2023, he signed with Merkezefendi Bld. Denizli Basket of the Turkish Basketball Super League
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* The w ...
(BSL).
Al Ittihad Alexandria (2023–present)
In October 2023, Harris made his debut for Al Ittihad Alexandria
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.
Career statistics
NBA
Regular season
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NBA D-League
Regular season
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International domestic leagues
Regular season
Personal life
His name, Corperryale, is a combination of the names of his cousin
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(Corrine), an uncle (Perry) and the "ale" of his immediate siblings—Janelle, Jerrelle and Al. He has a total of nine brothers and sisters and is the son of Merrick (Harris-Carter) and James Carter.[ Harris' middle name, Lādorable, is derived from his mother's reaction that he was "adorable" when she first saw him.] The source of his nickname, "Manny", is given differing accounts by his parents: his mother claims that it was because he "looked like a grown man" as a baby while his father claims it was after the character Manny Ribera Manny is a common nickname for the given names Manuel, Emmanuel, Immanuel, Emanuele, Herman, Norman, or Manfred.
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''. During the 2013–14 season, the @DFenders and @nbadleague Twitter accounts occasionally referred to Harris using the hashtag #MichiganMamba.[ Upon being called up to the NBA, @LakerNation used the nickname once.]
See also
* Michigan Wolverines men's basketball statistical leaders
References
External links
NBA D-League Profile
TBLStat.net Profile
*Harris D-Fenders single-game scoring record video
Jan 10, 2014
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1989 births
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