James Samuel Vincent was born on May 18,1963 and is an American former professional basketball player and coach.
13 Facts About Sam Vincent
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Sam Vincent attended Lansing's Eastern High School, where he scored 61 points in one game as a senior, breaking the previous city scoring record of 54 set by Magic Johnson at Everett High School.
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Sam Vincent played two seasons for the Celtics, winning an NBA Championship ring as a reserve in 1986, before joining the Seattle SuperSonics, who promptly traded him to the Chicago Bulls for Sedale Threatt.
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Sam Vincent scored 3,106 points and tallied 1,543 assists during his seven-year tenure in the league.
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Shortly after retiring, Sam Vincent worked at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Walt Disney World.
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On May 25,2007 Sam Vincent was introduced as the new head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA.
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Later that year, Sam Vincent was named the head coach of the Anaheim Arsenal of the NBA Development League.
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Sam Vincent assumed coaching the D'Tigress at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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In 2005, Sam Vincent led the Nigerian women's basketball team to their second tournament victory in the FIBA African Basketball Championship.
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Sam Vincent led the team to a 100 per cent performance in the 2017 FIBA African women's basketball tournament Afrobasket in Bamako, Mali.
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Sam Vincent had his appointment as head coach of the Nigeria Women's Basketball Team terminated by the Nigeria Basketball Federation on Thursday, August 2 while the team was preparing for the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.
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Sam Vincent was appointed as head coach of the Bahrain National team replacing Serbian coach Darko Russo.
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In September 2022, Sam Vincent was named the first head coach of the men's and women's teams at Beacon College, a liberal arts school in Central Florida.