Adrian Smith Basketball player

Adrian Howard (Odie) Smith is a retired American Northeast Mississippi Community College, University of Kentucky, NBA, and ABA player. Smith was a member of the undefeated U.S. men's basketball team that won the gold medal in the 1960 Olympics and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on August 13, 2010. A 6'2" guard, Smith was drafted out of the University of Kentucky by the Cincinnati Royals in the fifteenth round of the 1958 NBA Draft. Smith began his professional career in the 1961–62 NBA season. In the 1969-70 season, Smith was traded by the Royals to the San Francisco Warriors. Smith's NBA career ended following the 1970-71 season, after which he played one season in the American Basketball Association with the Virginia Squires. Smith's career highlights include his surprising winning of the 1966 NBA All-Star Game MVP in which he scored 24 points in 26 minutes of play (assisted, literally, by his regular-season teammate Oscar Robertson), and his league- leading free throw percentage of 90.3% in the 1966-67 season. After eleven seasons of playing professional basketball Smith entered the banking industry, where he worked as a Commercial Relationship Manager for Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank as of August 2010.