Mateen Cleaves (born September 7, 1977 in Flint, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics. Cleaves is most remembered for his career at Michigan State University. Cleaves became the eighth MSU player to have his number retired on February 3, 2007.
Cleaves, a three-time MSU captain, led the Spartans to the 2000 national championship and was named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. He is the school's only three-time All-American. He was named Big Ten Player of the Year twice. He also leads MSU and the Big Ten in career assists with 816 and is Michigan State's all-time steals leader (193). In his final home game on senior night in East Lansing Spartan star Mateen Cleaves dished out 20 assists, breaking the Big Ten single-game and career assist marks. In that game Cleaves and his seventh-ranked Spartans drubbed rival Michigan 114-63, assuring themselves their third straight Big Ten title along with the school's most-decisive conference victory ever.
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