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Nov 01, 1960 Ogden, Utah, United States 63 years old
Canadian basketball player
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About Karl Tilleman
- Karl Michael Tilleman (born November 1, 1960) is an attorney and two-time Canadian Olympian.
- Among his accomplishments, Tilleman holds the Olympic record for the most three-point baskets in a single basketball game, hitting ten of sixteen three-point shots, and scoring 21 points in a row for Canada, in a game against Spain in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
- His Olympic and other international performances against such hall of fame basketball players as Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, and Charles Barkley led team coach, Jack Donohue, to call him "the best three-point shooter in the world." His Olympic three-point record has never been broken, but has been tied twice, most recently by Carmelo Anthony of the US, in 2012.Tilleman had some of his best games against the United States.
- For example, in the 1983 Pan American Games, Tilleman scored 28 points in a head-to-head showdown with Michael Jordan; Tilleman's "excellent shooting" kept Canada in that tight game, which was tied 15 times.
- In the 1987 World University Games, where "Canada challenged the U.S.
- men all the way," Tilleman again led Canada (and all players) scoring 21 points against a talented U.S.
- team led by future NBA stars B.J.
- Armstrong (Chicago Bulls) and Mitch Richmond (Golden State), and coached by the iconic Mike Krzyzewski.Tilleman has also excelled as an attorney.
- He clerked for former Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice Clarence Thomas at the Supreme Court of the United States in 1992–93.
- He and Nick Bravin appear to be the only Olympians to also clerk for a U.S.
- Supreme Court Justice. Tilleman is a two-time Olympian.
- He had strong performances in both the 1984 LA Olympics, where Canada finished fourth, and in 1988 in Seoul, where Canada finished sixth.
- In addition to setting the three-point record in 1988, Tilleman also was Canada's second leading scorer and had the highest points per minute of any Canadian player.
- In 1984, Tilleman again had the highest points per minute of any Canadian player (with a minimum of 50 minutes played).
- In Canada's initial game against the United States in 1984 (led again by Michael Jordan), Tilleman was Canada's second leading scorer with 10 points.
- In the 1984 bronze-medal game, Tilleman played especially well and was again Canada's second-leading scorer with 13 points (shooting 60% from the field), in a hard-fought loss to Yugoslavia, where Canada had pulled to within one point with one minute left in the game.Tilleman was drafted by the Denver Nuggets as their second pick and the 79th overall in 1984; he was the fourth highest NBA draft pick of any Canadian University basketball player in history.Tilleman had an unprecedented athletic career at the University of Calgary in Canada.
- He was voted the University's all-time greatest athlete receiving five times more votes than the closest runner-up.
- He is the only Calgary Dino ever drafted into the NBA.
- Tilleman has been inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.
- He also has been inducted into the University of Calgary's Hall of Fame and had his jersey retired by the University.Tilleman and his Canadian teammates shocked the world in 1983 when they struck gold at the World Student Games held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- Canada's 1983 gold-medal performance was one of the two finest moments in Canada's rich basketball history (the other was Canada's silver medal in men's basketball at the 1936 Berlin Olympics).
- In winning the 1983 Universiade gold medal, Canada solidly defeated powerhouse teams from the United States and Yugoslavia, both of which were laden with future NBA stars such as Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, and Drazen Petrovic.
- Canada's 1983 Universiade gold medal, Canada's only international gold medal in men's basketball, has been described as the "Miracle on Wood."Tilleman was internationally recognized for his "superb shooting" skills with "ballistic range," which allowed him to take games "into his own hands," as he did when he scored 22 points in the second half against Puerto Rico in the 1983 Pan American Games, and when he drained 23 points in one quarter in the 1988 Utah Summer Games.
- Tilleman set his personal three-point record in 1986 against the Montana State Bobcats, who won the Big Sky Conference and went undefeated at home that season.
- Tilleman scored 50 points - on the Cats' home court - hitting 13 three-pointers and setting a record for the most points in a men's basketball game at Montana State's Worthington Arena.Tilleman holds numerous Canadian basketball records.
- He hit every free throw he attempted during the entire 1983–84 regular season, except one, resulting in a record-setting 98% free throw percentage that has never been broken by any Canadian or U.S.
- college player.
- Tilleman broke the Canadian University scoring record with a 32.9 points-per-game average (before Canada adopted the three-point line).
- He was named the most outstanding Canadian male basketball player two years consecutively, the first to accomplish that feat.
- Tilleman was the Canadian scoring champion in 1982 and 1983.
- He was voted a first team All-Canadian 4 consecutive years.
- And, he broke the University of Calgary's all-time point-per-game record and became Calgary's all-time leading scorer averaging 25.9 point-per-game (again, before the three-point line).
- Tilleman was the Canada-West Conference scoring champion 3 consecutive years (82–84), the Conference player of the year 3 consecutive years (81–83), and a unanimous first-team Conference all-star 4 consecutive years.In addition to his respected athletic career, Tilleman has distinguished himself as an attorney and in his charitable service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
- Tilleman has been the managing partner of Steptoe & Johnson's Phoenix office, and has held many firm leadership positions, while also representing many high-profile companies, including the Harlem Globetrotters, the University of Southern California, Western Union, State Farm, AIG, and Metlife, Inc.
- In March 2019, Tilleman led a "powerhouse" litigation group that joined the Phoenix office of the Dentons law firm, which is the largest law firm in the world.
- In the LDS Church, which has no paid local clergy, Tilleman has served as a bishop and stake president in Phoenix, Arizona, and as mission president of the Canada Vancouver Mission.
- Tilleman currently serves as an Area Seventy in the Church's North America Southwest Area.
