Ron Mercer is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on May 18, 1976 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The 1998 NBA All-Rookie First Team selection was made by the Boston Celtics. They won the national championship at the University of Kentucky.
His former college coach, He was drafted into the NBA by his former college coach, Rick Pitino., drafted him into the NBA.
Ron Mercer was twice named “Mr. Basketball” of Tennessee while at Goodpasture Christian School in Madison, Tennessee. He then transferred to Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, and was rated by Bob Gibbons to be the best prep player of the class of 1995.
He was selected with the sixth overall pick of the 1997 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics and was reunited with fellow Kentucky teammate Antoine Walker, and Rick Pitino, his coach at Kentucky who had just become the coach of the Celtics. Prior to Mercer’s drafting, Pitino was recorded as saying that he did not envisage Mercer as having the necessary talent to be selected very high. Some felt this was just a ploy to scare the other teams away from him so as to increase the likelihood of Mercer being available by the time the Celtics got an opportunity to make their draft selection. It turned out it was.
As a rookie, he gave his mother a Cadillac for Mother’s Day.
