Nationality American Name Charlie Scott Career start 1970 Listed height 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Role Basketball player Career end 1980 | Listed weight 175 lb (79 kg) Height 1.96 m Children Shannon Scott Pro career 1970–1980 Weight 79 kg | |
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Born December 15, 1948 (age 75)
New York City, New York ( 1948-12-15 ) College North Carolina (1967–1970) NBA draft 1970 / Round: 7 / Pick: 106th overall Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stuyvesant High School | ||
Charlie scott basketball
Charles Thomas Scott (born December 15, 1948) is an American former professional basketball player. He played two seasons in the now-defunct American Basketball Association (ABA) and eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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- Charlie scott basketball
- The journey big ten basketball 2014 shannon and charlie scott
- Early life
- College career
- Professional career
- Personal life
- References
The journey big ten basketball 2014 shannon and charlie scott
Early life
Charlie Scott grew up primarily in Harlem, New York. A 6'5" (1.96 m) guard/forward, Scott attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City for one year before transferring to Laurinburg Institute in Laurinburg, North Carolina. He was valedictorian of his high school senior class. He was a legend at Rucker Park
College career
Scott played college basketball at the University of North Carolina, where he was the first black scholarship athlete. Scott averaged 22.1 points and 7.1 rebounds per game at UNC, and a career-best 27.1 points per game in his senior season. He was a two-time All-American and a three-time all-ACC selection. Scott led the Tar Heels to their second and third consecutive NCAA Final Four appearances in 1968 and 1969.
He was the first African American to join a fraternity at the University of North Carolina, St. Anthony Hall, in 1967. Scott was a gold medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Professional career
Scott was drafted by the Boston Celtics in 1970 but he had already signed a contract with the Virginia Squires of the ABA. Scott was named ABA Rookie of the Year after averaging 27.1 points per game. During his second season with the Squires, he set the ABA record for highest scoring average in one season (34.6 points per game). However, he became dissatisfied with life in the ABA and joined the NBA's Phoenix Suns in 1972. The Suns acquired Scott in a trade with the Celtics for Paul Silas. At that point, he briefly went by the name Shaheed Abdul-Aleem.
Scott continued his stellar play in the NBA, representing the Suns in three straight NBA All-Star Games (1973, 1974, and 1975), then was traded to the Boston Celtics straight up for Paul Westphal. With the Celtics in the 1975-76 NBA season, Scott won a championship ring against the Suns. Scott later played for the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets. He retired in 1980 with 14,837 combined ABA/NBA career points. Of the seven people that led the ABA in scoring for one season, he is the only one not inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Personal life
While attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Charlie Scott married Margaret Holmes Scott and from that union they had one daughter Holly Scott Emanuel.
Scott and his current wife, Trudy, have three children—sons Shaun and Shannon and daughter Simone—and have lived primarily in Atlanta and Los Angeles. They currently live in Columbus, Ohio, where son Shannon used to play for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
After retiring from the NBA, Scott served as a marketing director for the sports apparel company Champion for several years, then as executive vice president of CTS, a telemarketing firm, before owning his own business.