Sam Vincent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Sam Vincent

American basketball player and coach

Date of Birth: 18-May-1963

Place of Birth: Lansing, Michigan, United States

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Sam Vincent

  • James Samuel Vincent (born May 18, 1963) is an American retired professional basketball Player and Coach. Vincent won the State of Michigan "Mr.
  • Basketball" award in 1981, the first year the award was given.
  • He attended Lansing's Eastern High School, where he scored 61 points in one game as a senior, breaking the previous city scoring record of 54 set by Magic Johnson at Everett High School. A 6'2" point guard, Vincent followed in the footsteps of his older brother Jay Vincent, attending Michigan State University and earning Sporting News All-America honors in 1985.
  • After graduating from college, he was selected by the Boston Celtics with the twentieth pick of the 1985 NBA draft.
  • He played two seasons for the Celtics, winning an NBA Championship ring as a reserve in 1986, before joining the Seattle SuperSonics, who promptly traded him to the Chicago Bulls for Sedale Threatt.
  • After one-and-a-half solid seasons with the Bulls, he was selected by the Orlando Magic in the 1989 NBA expansion draft, and he finished his NBA career with the Magic in 1992.
  • He scored 3,106 points and tallied 1,543 assists during his seven-year tenure in the league. Shortly after retiring, Vincent worked at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Walt Disney World.
  • During the late 1990s, he coached basketball in South Africa, and he has also coached in Greece, Netherlands, Nigeria, and the NBDL.
  • At the 2004 Summer Olympics, he led the Nigerian women's basketball team to a 68–64 victory over South Korea, which was the first ever victory by an African nation in an Olympic women's basketball contest.

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