Aaron Fitzgerald McKie is an American basketball coach and former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently the special advisor for athletics at his alma mater Temple University. From 2019 until 2023 he served as the head coach for the Temple men's basketball team. Selected by the Portland Trail Blazers 17th overall in the 1994 NBA draft, McKie spent time as a point guard, shooting guard or small forward throughout his professional playing career from 1994 to 2007.
McKie standing on the sidelines during a 2023 Temple basketball game
McKie with Sixers' teammates Keith Van Horn and Allen Iverson in 2003
McKie with the 76ers in 2012
Temple University is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Baptist Temple. On May 12, 1888, it was renamed the Temple College of Philadelphia. By 1907, the institution had revised its institutional status and been incorporated as a research university.
Postcard depicting the original Baptist Temple and Russell Conwell
President Harry S. Truman visits Temple University.
Martin Luther King Jr. lecturing at Temple University in 1965
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