Nationality American Name Darrell Allums Career start 1980 Listed height 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) Role Basketball player Career end 1981 | Listed weight 220 lb (100 kg) Height 2.06 m Position Power forward College UCLA (1976–1980) Weight 100 kg | |
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Born September 12, 1958 (age 65)
Los Angeles, California ( 1958-09-12 ) High school Lynwood (Lynwood, California) NBA draft 1980 / Round: 5 / Pick: 103rd overall Education University of California, Los Angeles | ||
Darrell Wilbert Allums, Jr. (born September 12, 1958) is a retired American basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1980-1981.
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Basketball
Allums attended Lynwood High School, where his 18 points and 18 rebounds per game helped lead his team to the Southern Section 3A championship.
A 6'9" forward playing on scholarship for the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Allums played for three different coaches and ended his collegiate career by scoring four points in UCLA's loss to the University of Louisville in the finals of the 1980 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
Allums was selected with the 11th pick in the fifth round of the 1980 NBA Draft by the Dallas Mavericks and played one season (1980-81) for them, averaging 2.7 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.1 assist per game.
Later life
In 1989, Allums was sentenced to nine years in prison for robbing Domino's Pizza deliverymen on 14 separate occasions (he was convicted of eight counts with the other six charges dropped). During the trial the judge was sympathetic after it was brought out that Allums was fighting a cocaine habit.