Sam Perkins Basketball News & Bio
| Name: | Sam Perkins | | Hometown: | Latham, NY | | High School: | Shaker | | Born: | June 14, 1961 (63) | | Height/Weight: | 6-9, 235 | | Position: | C/F | | Notes: | Basketball, 1980 McDonald's All-American | | Related: | Jeb Barlow | Matt Doherty | Al Wood | Jimmy Black |
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Sam Perkins Now International Ambassador for NBASam Perkins is now an ambassador for the NBA and recently traveled to China with the Brooklyn Nets and to Spain with Team USA for...
Tue Feb 3, 2015
‘Big Smooth’ didn’t gripe about 82-game seasonSam Perkins ranks 19th all time in games played (1,286) and 55th in minutes (36,598). The sweet-shooting forward/center known as “Big Smooth” played at least...
Sun Nov 9, 2014
Sam Perkins Talks About His Charity Work and Life After Basketball
Sam Perkins, who was a member of UNC's 1982 NCAA championship basketball team, was selected with the fourth pick of the 1984 NBA Draft by...
Thu Jul 3, 2014
The Best That Never Was?
The 1983-1984 Tar Heels were arguably the best team Dean Smith put on the floor in his 36 years in Chapel Hill. That UNC team...
Mon Feb 10, 2014
The Strange Tale of Patrick Ewing’s Recruitment to UNC
Patrick Ewing's college decision would shape basketball history, and his claim that the KKK precluded him from committing to North Carolina — where he would...
Wed Jan 22, 2014