- Glen Rice
Glen Anthony Rice (born May 28 1967, in Flint, Michigan) is a retired American NBA basketball player. Rice was a three-time NBA All-Star small forward well known for his pinpoint shooting accuracy, ranking 4th in NBA history with 1,559 three-point field goals made during his 15-year career. Rice has been a player on both a team that won an NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and a team that won an NBA Championship. - Juan Dixon
Juan Dixon (born October 9 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Toronto Raptors. Dixon rebounded from a traumatic childhood to make the NBA. Both his mother, Juanita, and father, Phil, were heroin addicts, and both died of AIDS-related illnesses before Dixon was 17 years old. Dixon was raised by his grandparents Roberta and Warnick Graves in Baltimore, Maryland. - Tony Delk
Tony Lorenzo Delk (born January 28 1974 in Covington, Tennessee) is an American professional basketball player currently playing with Panathinaikos in Greece. He was team leader of the 1996 University of Kentucky Wildcats that won the 1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. During his 1992 senior year of high school Delk was named "Mr. Basketball" in the state of Tennessee and also to the Parade and McDonald's All-American Teams. - Pervis Ellison
Pervis Ellison (born April 3, 1967 in Savannah, Georgia) is a former college and professional NBA basketball player. Ellison was nicknamed "Never Nervous Pervis" for his play with the University of Louisville. At 6'9" (206 cm) and 210 lb (95 kg), he started all four years as the center under coach Denny Crum. - Sean May
Sean Gregory May (born April 4 1984, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player. A 6' 9" power forward, he currently plays for the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. May grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. He was a three-time all-state selection at Bloomington High School North, and was at one time a teammate of current NBA player Jared Jeffries. May was named to the 2002 McDonald's High School All-American team. - Anderson Hunt
Anderson Hunt (born in Detroit, Michigan) is a retired American basketball player, perhaps best known as the UNLV Runnin' Rebels shooting guard when the Rebels won the 1990 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and appeared in the Final Four in 1991. He was also named the tournement's Most Outstanding Player. He left the school as a junior after the 1991 season to enter the NBA Draft, much to the dismay of his coach, Jerry Tarkanian, … - Arnie Ferrin
C. Arnold Ferrin Jr. (born July 29, 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a former basketball player in college and the BAA and NBA. Ferrin attended high school in Ogden, Utah. In college with the University of Utah, he won the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player award in 1944 when they won the championship over Dartmouth College. He would also later help them win a NIT in 1947. He became the only four-time All-American at Utah. - Corliss Williamson
Corliss Mondari Williamson (born on December 4, 1973 in Russellville, Arkansas) is an American professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the NBA. His nickname is "Big Nasty", a moniker he received from his cousin when he was 13. In college, Williamson was a dominating power forward but became an undersized power forward in the NBA and has mostly played at the small forward position. Williamson starred at the University of Arkansas. - Ed Pinckney
Edward (Ed) Lewis Pinckney (born March 27 1963 in The Bronx, New York) is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA. A 6'9" forward, Pinckney led Villanova University to the NCAA title over the Georgetown Hoyas in 1985. He was the recipient of the Tournament's Most Outstanding Player after registering 16 points and 6 rebounds in the 66-64 victory. Also in 1985 he was selected tenth overall by the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Draft. - Jeff Sheppard
Jeffrey Kyle Sheppard (born September 29 1974 in Marietta, Georgia) is a professional and former collegiate basketball player. The 6' 3" (1.90 m) University of Kentucky guard (1993-1998), was named Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Tournament in San Antonio, Texas in 1998. He played on two national championship teams at the University of Kentucky under Rick Pitino in 1996 and under Tubby Smith in 1998. - Hal Lear
Harold C. Lear (born January 31, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a retired American basketball player. A 6'0" guard, Lear starred at Temple University during the 1950s. He earned the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player in 1956 after leading Temple to the Final Four, where they lost to the University of Iowa. After college, Lear was selected by the Philadelphia Warriors with the eighth pick of the 1956 NBA Draft. - Howie Dallmar
Howard Dallmar (May 24, 1922-December 19, 1991) was an American professional basketball player and coach. A 6'4" forward from San Francisco, California, Dallmar played collegiately at Stanford University. He was an All-American selection and led Stanford to the 1942 NCAA Championship, earning Tournament Most Outstanding Player honors. From 1946 to 1949, he played professionally for the Philadelphia Warriors of the Basketball Association of America (a forerunner to the NBA). - Ken Sailors
Kenneth L. Sailors (born January 14, 1922 in Hillsdale, Wyoming) is an American former professional basketball player. A 5'10" guard, he is notable for popularizing the jump shot as an alternative to the two-handed, flat-footed set shot. Sailors grew up on a farm in Wyoming, where he developed his effective jump shot while playing against his 6'4" older brother Bud. He eventually brought his skills to the University of Wyoming, … - Jerry Chambers
Jerry Chambers (born July 18, 1943 in Washington, DC) is an American former professional basketball player. At 6'5" and 185 pounds, he played as a forward. Chambers attended the University of Utah during the mid-1960s, winning the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player award in 1966 after his team reached the Final Four. He played four professional seasons in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Atlanta Hawks, … - Marvin Huffman
Marvin "Marv" Huffman (1917-1983) was an American basketball player. A 6'2" forward, Huffman starred at New Castle High School in Indiana, where he started every game for four years. He then played collegiately at Indiana University, leading the Hoosiers to the 1940 NCAA Championship. After scoring a team-high 12 points in the deciding game over the University of Kansas, … - Art Heyman
Arthur Bruce Heyman (born June 24, 1941 in New York, New York) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6' 5" guard/forward, after attending Oceanside High School in New York, Heyman starred for Duke University in the early 1960s, where he scored 1,984 career points and averaged 25.1 points per game. As a senior in 1963, he earned the AP National Player of the Year award, the ACC Player of the Year award, the Oscar Robertson Trophy, … - Donald Williams
Donald Williams (born February 24 1973) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing with Caja Rural Melilla of the Spanish Basketball Federation (LEB). Born in Garner, North Carolina. Played for Garner High School before going on to play at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. - Richard Washington
Richard Lee Washington (born July 15, 1955 in Portland, Oregon) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'11" center, Washington starred at UCLA in the 1970s, where he was named NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player following UCLA's 1975 championship. He played six professional seasons in the NBA as a member of the Kansas City Kings, Milwaukee Bucks, Dallas Mavericks, and Cleveland Cavaliers. - Jimmy Hull
James R. "Jimmy" Hull led the Ohio State Buckeyes to the championship game in the first-ever NCAA Basketball Tournament. The Buckeyes finished the season with a 16-7 record, and lost to the Oregon Ducks in the finals. Hull was named the Most Outstanding Player of that first tournament Hull was a two-year starter for the Buckeyes. As a senior and captain of the 1938-1939 team he was the leading scorer in the Big Ten Conference and was a consensus All-America selection. - Paul Hogue
Paul "Duke" Hogue (born April 28, 1940 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a retired American basketball player. A 6'9" center, Hogue starred on the University of Cincinnati basketball team which won the 1962 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Hogue was named Most Outstanding Player. He had a brief career (1962-64) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the New York Knicks and Baltimore Bullets, averaging 6.3 points per game. - Howard Porter
Howard Porter was an American professional basketball player. At 6'8" and 220 pounds, he played as a forward and a center. Porter was born in Stuart, Florida. He attended Booker High School in Sarasota, Florida, where he was nicknamed "Geez" because teammates said he could leap into the air like a geyser. The highlight of his high school career occurred in 1967, when he led Booker to the Florida Interscholastic Athletic Association Class A State Basketball Championship. - Oscar Schmidt
Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt is a Brazilian former basketball player. He is also known as Oscar Schmidt and Oscar Schmidt Bezerra in Spain, where he played for Fórum Valladolid for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons, and simply Oscar or "Mão Santa" (Holy Hand). He is considered one of the best players never to have competed in the NBA. He played in five Olympics, and was the top scorer in three of them.
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