Marvin Wayne Harvey (born May 12, 1954) is an American basketball shooting instructor, former college player and coach, who currently owns and runs the trademarked Shot Lab™ in Tampa, Florida and the Marvin Harvey Basketball School of Excellence. He has been a shooting instructor and coach since 1982. As a basketball coach he has won over 400 games at the high school and college level. Over the past 28 years he has trained the best shooters in the world on every level. Two of his most notable students are Raja Bell and Tamika Catchings. He is known as the "Shot Doctor". Early years Harvey was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from Paseo High School. Harvey decided to try out for the Penn Valley Community College basketball team. After playing two years at Penn Valley, Harvey was offered a scholarship to play basketball at Ottawa University, where he eventually graduated in 1980. In 1982, Harvey tried out for the NBA in Los Angeles, California. After making the final cut, he was then chosen by Marty Blake (then Chief Scout of the NBA) to attend two other training camps for different NBA teams. Kansas/Missouri Marvin Harvey became the head coach for the boys' and girls' basketball teams at Santa Fe Trail Jr. High School in Olathe, Kansas. During this time he coached the boys' team to three one-loss seasons. In 1983 however, he became the Shooting Coach for the University of Kansas Women's Basketball, after which, he was the Shooting Coach for every major college and university in Missouri and Kansas. He started the first individual and small group, Player Development program in the State of Kansas; the Basketball Workshop. While gaining attention and exposure from his program, Harvey began training his first NBA player Clay Johnson. Clay Johnson would eventually win an NBA Championship with the Los Angeles Lakers. During the same summer he toured the United States as the "Shot Doctor" with top NCAA Women Basketball Coaches (World-Wide Sports) for the Lynette Woodard free basketball camps. The tours conducted free clinics with the help of top-name coaches and players across the country and discussed drugs, character, commitment, and what it means to be a student-athlete. Harvey wrote, and produced a thirty-minute video, "Shooting the Basketball", sold across the country with a free instructional development shooting poster. Florida/Alabama/Texas From 1991 to 1993 Marvin Harvey tour the State of Florida,