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 Longtime Warriors trainer Tom Abdenour becomes just the third NBA athletic trainer to enter the NATA Hall of Fame. (Renée Fernandes/NATA) |
Abdenour recently completed his 20th season as athletic trainer for the Golden State Warriors, having begun his NBA career with the team in 1987. In 2005, he was the recipient of NATA’s Tim Kerin Award for Excellence in Athletic Training and in 1990, just his third season in the league, Tom’s peers elected him as the NBA’s Athletic Trainer of the Year.
Along with his work with Golden State, Abdenour served as athletic trainer for the gold medal-winning USA Men’s Basketball Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Austrailia. His list of accomplishments also includes serving as athletic trainer for the Western Conference at NBA All-Star 2000 (hosted by the Warriors) and as a volunteer athletic trainer at the 1999 Pan-Am Games, the Goodwill Games in New York City and the 1994 U.S. World Championships in Toronto.
Prior to joining the Warriors, Abdenour spent eight years as the athletic trainer for all 15 varsity sports programs at Weber State in Ogden, Utah. His career began in 1978 at Hillsdale College in South Central, Michigan, where he spent one year as its athletic trainer before moving on to Weber State.
Abdenour becomes just the third NBA athletic trainer to enter the NATA Hall of Fame, joining Fritz Massmann from the New Jersey Nets (inducted in 1984) and Dick Vandervoort from the Houston Rockets (1988). Along with Abdenour, ATC, PES, three other athletic trainers were inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame in June: Stephen Bair, ATC (Pine Hill, NJ), Cynthia “Sam” Booth, PhD, ATC (Moorhead, MN) and Julie Max, MEd, ATC (Fullerton, CA).
For more information on Abdenour's induction into the NATA Hall of Fame, click here.
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