Charles Smith (basketball, born 1967)

Charles Smith
Personal information
Born	November 29, 1967 (age 56); Ourense
1998	Vaqueros de Bayamón
1998–1999	Serapide Pozzuoli
1999	Obras Sanitarias
1999–2000	Record Napoli
2000	Media Broker Messina
2000–2001	La Crosse Bobcats
2001	Liège Basket
Career highlights and awards
	CBA assists leader (1996); Second-team All-American – AP, UPI (1989); Big East Player of the Year (1989); First-team All-Big East (1989); Second-team All-Big East (1988);
Career NBA statistics
Points	186
Rebounds	76
Assists	115
	Stats at NBA.com
	Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Men's basketball
Representing United States
Olympic Games

Charles Edward Smith IV (born November 29, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player who played with the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Smith was also a member of the bronze medal-winning 1988 United States Olympic team and was an All-American college player at Georgetown.

College career

Smith was born in Washington, D.C., where he attended

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 NBA 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] He subsequently served time in prison.^[2]

Shooting

On October 21, 2010, Smith was shot twice in the chest at his home in Bowie, Maryland.^[3] Smith underwent surgery and survived. The next day, police discovered "large quantity of cocaine and evidence of a gambling operation" in a search of his home.^[4]

References

^ Smith, a former Celtic, gets a split verdict, abstract The New York Times. March 13, 1992. Accessed August 27, 2007.
^ Charles E. Smith, former Hoya, NBA player, shot in Bowie; drugs found in home | TBD.com Archived October 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ Report: Former Boston Celtic Charles Smith shot, hospitalized – ESPN Boston
^ "Ex-Hoyas star Smith shot at Bowie home, police say". The Baltimore Sun. October 23, 2010.

[1] Smith, a former Celtic, gets a split verdict, abstract The New York Times. March 13, 1992. Accessed August 27, 2007.

[tbd-2] Charles E. Smith, former Hoya, NBA player, shot in Bowie; drugs found in home | TBD.com Archived October 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

[3] Report: Former Boston Celtic Charles Smith shot, hospitalized – ESPN Boston

[4] "Ex-Hoyas star Smith shot at Bowie home, police say". The Baltimore Sun. October 23, 2010.

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