McHale, Robert Parish, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman. He won an NBA championship in 1998, as a center, for a Chicago Bulls team that included Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, and Steve Kerr. His best season was with the Kings in 1985, when he averaged 9.8 PPG. At the time of his retirement from the NBA, he'd scored 4,666 points, had 3,991 total rebounds, and had scored 849 free throws out of 1,069 attempts. National team career Kleine played for the US national team in the 1982 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal. Along with his college teammate Robertson, he also won a gold medal as a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball team coached by Bob Knight. Sportswriter Jon Goode would later write that "Joe Kleine was never a star, but what made Kleine great was that he accepted his role and was ready to play every night." Coaching career After coaching AAU and high school basketball in Little Rock and serving as an analyst for Arkansas basketball games, Kleine was hired as an assistant coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2007. Movie appearances Kleine appeared in the 1996 movie Eddie as himself. Career statistics NBA Source Regular season |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Sacramento | 80 || 18 || 14.8 || .465 || – || .723 || 4.7 || .6 || .3 || .4 || 5.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Sacramento | 79 || 31 || 21.0 || .471 || .000 || .786 || 6.1 || .9 || .4 || .4 || 7.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Sacramento | 82 || 60 || 24.4 || .472 || – || .814 || 7.1 || 1.1 || .3 || .7 || 9.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Sacramento | 47 || 11 || 19.4 || .383 || .000 || .920 || 5.1 || .7 || .4 || .4 || 6.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Boston | 28 || 2 || 17.8 || .457 || .000 || .828 || 4.9 || 1.1 || .5 || .2 || 6.1 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Boston | 81 || 4 || 16.9 || .480 || .000 || .830 || 4.4 || .6 || .2 || .3 || 5.4 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Boston | 72 || 1 || 11.8 || .468 || .000 || .783 || 3.4 || .3 || .2 ||