Charles Smith (basketball, born 1967)

Charles Smith
No. 3, 13
Guard
Personal information
Date of birth November 29, 1967 (1967-11-29) (age 44)
Washington, D.C.
Listed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight 160 lb (73 kg)
Career information
College Georgetown
Pro career 1989–2001
Career history
Career highlights and awards

No notable achievements

Career NBA statistics
Points 186
Rebounds 76
Assists 115
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Olympic medal record
Competitor for  United States
Men's Basketball
Bronze Seoul 1988 National team

Charles Edward Smith IV (born November 29, 1967) is a retired American professional basketball player who played with the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA.

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College career

Smith attended All Saints High School in Washington, D.C. At Georgetown University he was the Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year for the 1988–89 season.

Smith also played for the 1988 United States Men's Olympic Basketball Team, the last American team not to feature professional players.

Professional career

After his college career, Smith went undrafted during the 1989 NBA Draft. But he went on to play for the Boston Celtics and the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Conviction of vehicular homicide

On March 12, 1992, Smith was convicted of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a crime, in the hit-and-run deaths of two Boston University students on March 22, 1991.[1]

Shooting

On October 21, 2010, he was shot in Bowie, Maryland.[2] The next day, police discovered "large quantity of cocaine and evidence of a gambling operation" in a search of his home.[3]

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