Clem Smith Haskins (born August 11, 1943) is a retired American college and professional basketball player and college basketball coach. He and star player Dwight Smith became the first black athletes to integrate the Western Kentucky University (WKU) basketball program in the fall of 1963. This put Western Kentucky at the forefront to integrate college basketball in the South. He served 13 years (1986–1999) as head coach of the University of Minnesota's men's basketball team, but was forced to resign due to one of the worst academic fraud scandals in the history of NCAA sports. He was effectively blackballed from coaching college basketball for seven years, one of the most severe penalties handed down by the NCAA to an individual.
Played for Western Kentucky University (1964-1967). All-American (1967, 1966). The only player in Ohio Valley Conference history to be chosen Player of the Year three consecutive seasons (1965, 1966 and 1967).
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Played for the Chicago Bulls (1967-1970), Phoenix Suns (1970-1974) and Washington Bullets (1974-1976) in the NBA.
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Head coach for Western Kentucky University (1980-1986) and the University of Minnesota (1986-1999).
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First recipient of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award (which honors the active Division I basketball coach who has made the most significant positive contributions to his sport during the preceding year) in 1997.
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