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Adrian Smith (basketball)
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Adrian Howard Smith (born October 5, 1936, in Farmington, Kentucky) is an American former National Basketball Association player.
Smith was a member of the undefeated U.S. men's basketball team that won the gold medal in the 1960 Olympics.
A 6"1" guard, he was drafted out of the University of Kentucky by the Cincinnati Royals in 1961. Career highlights include his surprising winning of the 1966 NBA All-Star Game MVP in which he scored 24 points in 26 minutes of play (assisted, literally, by his regular season teammate Oscar Robertson[1]), and his league leading free throw percentage of 0.903 in the 1966-67 season. In the 1969-70 season, Smith was traded by the Royals to the San Francisco Warriors. Smith's NBA career ended following the 1970-71 season, after which he played one season in the American Basketball Association with the Virginia Squires.
- ^ Pluto, Terry (1992). Tall Tales: The Glory Years of the NBA in the Words of the Men Who Played, Coached, and Built Pro Basketball. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-74279-5.
- NBA stats @ databasebasketball.com
| 1960 Olympic Champions Men's Basketball team - United States |
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Jay Arnette | Walt Bellamy | Bob Boozer | Terry Dischinger | Burdette Haldorson | Darrall Imhoff | Allen Kelley | Lester Lane | Jerry Lucas | Oscar Robertson | Adrian Smith | Jerry West |
| Coach: Pete Newell |
| Preceded by Jerry Lucas |
NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player 1966 |
Succeeded by Rick Barry |
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| 14 Phil Johnson | 24 Johnny Cox | 32 John Crigler | 34 Ed Beck | 40 Earl Adkins | 50 Adrian Smith | 52 Vernon Hatton | 54 Don Mills Coach Adolph Rupp |
Categories: 1936 births | Living people | American basketball players | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players | Cincinnati Royals players | San Francisco Warriors players | Virginia Squires players | Olympic basketball players of the United States | Olympic gold medalists for the United States | Basketball players at the 1960 Summer Olympics