Sam Perkins

Samuel Bruce Perkins ( born June 14, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York ) is a retired American professional basketball player.

NBA

Perkins was brought in 1984 in fourth place of the draft by the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA. He reached the playoffs in 13 of his 15 professional years. So also in his first year as a pro, in which he was charged with 11.0 points per game and 7.4 rebounds selected in the NBA All - Rookie Team (an average of 18.8 points in the playoffs ). In the following years with the Mavericks "Big Smooth" could improve its yield points and reached the Western Conference Finals Mavericks in 1988.

In 1990, when his contract expired, he joined the Los Angeles Lakers, where he starred alongside his former college teammate James Worthy. In 1991 he reached the NBA Finals with the Lakers, but where you could win a game and the Chicago Bulls around superstar Michael Jordan ( also a former college teammate ) thus 1:4 defeated. In the only victory for the Lakers Perkins scored the decisive three- point shot in the last game second.

In the 1992-93 season, the Lakers wanted to rejuvenate and exchanged Sam Perkins on 22 February 1993 for Benoit Benjamin and Doug Christie to the Seattle SuperSonics, where he played up to and including 1997-98. During this time, he slipped more and more into the role of the banking player. In 1996, he reached, now wearing the jersey of the Seattle SuperSonics, the second time the NBA finals to once again there are Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.

On January 21, 1999 Sam Perkins signed with the Indiana Pacers. With the team he reached in 2000 for the third time in his career, the NBA Finals, in which his team the Los Angeles Lakers defeated. The following year he did not play a major role in more cadres of the Pacers and was therefore dismissed on 17 September 2001. This ended Sam Perkins ' professional career.