Adrian Smith (basketball)

Medal record
Competitor for United States
Men's Basketball
Olympic Games
Gold	1960 Rome	Team Competition

Adrian Howard Smith (born October 5, 1936, in Farmington, Kentucky) is an American former, Northeast Mississippi Community College, University of Kentucky, and 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.

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^ 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.

Preceded by Jerry Lucas	NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player 1966	Succeeded by Rick Barry

v • d • e 1960 Olympic Champions Men's Basketball team - United States

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

v • d • e Kentucky Wildcats Basketball 1957-1958 NCAA Champions

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

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