Charles Smith (basketball, born 1975)

For other people with the same name, see Charles Smith (disambiguation).

Charles Smith
Personal information
Smith playing with Efes Pilsen in December, 2009.
Born	(1975-08-22) August 22, 1975 Fort Worth, Texas
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight	200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High school	Paul Laurence Dunbar (Fort Worth, Texas)
College	New Mexico (1993–1997)
NBA draft	1997 / Round: 1 / Pick: 26th overall
Selected by the Miami Heat
Playing career	1997–2011
Position	Shooting guard
Career history
1997–1998	Miami Heat
1998–1999	Los Angeles Clippers
1999–2000	Rockford Lightning
2000–2001	Snaidero Udine
2001–2002	San Antonio Spurs
2002–2003	Portland Trail Blazers
2003	Makedonikos
2003–2004	Carisbo Castelmaggiore
2004–2005	Scavolini Pesaro
2005–2006	Portland Trail Blazers
2006	Denver Nuggets
2006	Efes Pilsen
2006–2008	Real Madrid
2008–2010	Efes Pilsen
2010–2011	Lottomatica Roma
Career highlights and awards
Alphonso Ford Trophy (2005) Eurocup Basketball Finals MVP (2007) All-Euroleague Second Team (2005) 2× First-team All-WAC (1996, 1997)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Charles Cornelius Smith (born August 22, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player.

College career

Collegiately, Smith was a star at the University of New Mexico with the Lobos, after he played high school ball at Dunbar High School in Fort Worth.

Smith played with the Denver Nuggets, the Portland Trail Blazers, the Miami Heat, the Los Angeles Clippers, and the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. A prolific scorer, he starred in European national leagues with Makedonikos Kozani, Virtus Bologna, and Efes Pilsen SK. With the Italian League team Scavolini Pesaro in 2005, he won the first-ever Alphonso Ford Trophy, as he was the best scorer in the 2004-05 Euroleague season.

He was also named the Eurocup Basketball Finals MVP of the Eurocup in the 2006-07 season, while playing with the Spanish ACB League club Real Madrid. He moved back to the Turkish Basketball Super League for the 2008-09 season, when he signed with Efes Pilsen. He moved back to Italy for the 2010-11 season, when he signed a one-year contract with Lottomatica Roma.^[1]

1997 NBA draft

First round	Tim Duncan Keith Van Horn Chauncey Billups Antonio Daniels Tony Battie Ron Mercer Tim Thomas Adonal Foyle Tracy McGrady Danny Fortson Olivier Saint-Jean Austin Croshere Derek Anderson Maurice Taylor Kelvin Cato Brevin Knight Johnny Taylor Chris Anstey Scot Pollard Paul Grant Anthony Parker Ed Gray Bobby Jackson Rodrick Rhodes John Thomas Charles Smith Jacque Vaughn Keith Booth

Second round	Serge Zwikker Mark Sanford Charles O'Bannon James Cotton Marko Milič Bubba Wells Kebu Stewart James Collins Marc Jackson Jerald Honeycutt Anthony Johnson Ed Elisma Jason Lawson Stephen Jackson Gordon Malone Cedric Henderson God Shammgod Eric Washington Alvin Williams Predrag Drobnjak Alain Digbeu Chris Crawford DeJuan Wheat C. J. Bruton Paul Rogers Mark Blount Ben Pepper Nate Erdmann Roberto Dueñas

ULEB Cup and EuroCup Finals MVP

2003: Tomašević 2004: McCarty 2005: Javtokas 2006: Douglas 2007: Smith 2008: Fernández 2009: Petravičius 2010: Nielsen 2011: Popović 2012: Planinić 2013: Hendrix 2014: Doellman 2015: Rice 2016: Lasme

EuroLeague Alphonso Ford Trophy

2005: Smith 2006: Nicholas 2007: Rakočević 2008: Salyers 2009: Rakočević 2010: Kleiza 2011: Rakočević 2012: McCalebb 2013: Brown 2014: Langford 2015: Rochestie 2016: de Colo

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