Coaching career Assistant coach (1996-2004) After success with that franchise, he finished his career by moving between several teams, making contributions in New Jersey, Los Angeles (with the Clippers), Houston, and Cleveland. He averaged 12.2 points over his career with the Kings (moving with the team to Sacramento). He enjoyed great success with the franchise, leading the team with 18.2 points per contest during a 1983 playoff run. He spent two years in New York, before being traded to the Kansas City Kings. Woodson was selected 12th overall by the New York Knicks in the 1980 NBA Draft and played in the league from 1980 until 1991. Woodson finished his career at Indiana with 2,062 points. The 1979-80 Hoosiers, led by Woodson and Isiah Thomas, won the Big Ten championship and advanced to the 1980 Sweet Sixteen. In Woodson's junior year, the 1978-79 season, he was the leading scorer on the Hoosier team that won the 1979 NIT Tournament. And I thought I was playing for the best coach in the country at that time.'

However, according to Woodson, 'I wanted to go somewhere where I could play, and where I knew I could get a great education, and my family didn't have to travel far to see me. During one recruiting visit by Knight where Woodson's high school coach, his mother, and his pastor were all present, Knight got into a heated exchange because Woodson's high school coach was not convinced Woodson would fit into Indiana's system.

Woodson elected to play college basketball for Bob Knight and the Indiana University Hoosiers. And Bob Knight is the one who really instilled a lot of the fundamentals and how high school coaches taught their teams.' Indiana University According to Woodson, playing in Indiana meant 'you had to be able to pass, and shoot, and dribble, and play without the basketball, you know, the motion offense. It was a place to go learn your craft.' He was also able to practice with a large number of talented basketball players in the Indianapolis area, including professionals such as George McGinnis, Roger Brown, and Rick Mount. You had parks in every area of town where you could go get a pickup game. If you didn't have it, you had neighbors two doors down that had it. He said, 'Every yard had courts, little basketball hoops in the yard. Growing up in Indiana, Woodson felt the Hoosier Hysteria which permeated the state helped prepare him for a career in basketball. Playing career Early life and prep career Woodson coaching the Hawks in the 2008 NBA playoffs.

A Perfect Game by Reno MacLeod