Charlie Scott (basketball)

Charles Thomas Scott (born December 15, 1948)[1] is an American former professional basketball player. He played two seasons in the now-defunct American Basketball Association (ABA) and eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Scott was an Olympic Gold Medalist and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.

Charlie Scott grew up primarily in Harlem, New York.[2] A 6’5″ (1.96 m) guard/forward, Scott attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City for one year before transferring to Laurinburg Institute in Laurinburg, North Carolina.[3] He was valedictorian of his high school senior class.[4] He was a legend at Rucker Park