Billy Cunningham Basketball News & Bio
| Name: | Billy Cunningham | | Hometown: | Brooklyn, NY | | High School: | Erasmus Hall | | Born: | June 3, 1943 (81) | | Height/Weight: | 6-6, 218 | | Position: | F/C | | Notes: | 1965 ACC Basketball POY, All-American, 1967 NBA Champ, 4x NBA All-Star | | Related: | Dieter Krause | Bill Taylor | Charlie Burns | Art Katz |
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NYC 1960s: Incubator of World’s Best Basketball PlayersUNC's first Black scholarship player was Harlem-reared Charlie Scott, the future Hall of Famer who attended Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School before transferring to Laurinburg Institute...
Fri Jan 1, 2021
From Cunningham to Carter, an incredible streak ends but not the life lessons from Dean SmithWhen Vince Carter retired from the NBA last month after 22 years with eight teams, the world’s premier basketball league was left with no players...
Sat Jul 11, 2020
Tar Heel Firsts: UNC’s First Basketball Olympian
Larry Brown was a first-team All-ACC player for Dean Smith’s second North Carolina team in 1962-63. At 14.2 points per game, he was the second...
Sun Jun 21, 2020
Carolina Insider Podcast: Billy Cunningham, Women's Soccer Roundtable, and More
UNC Basketball great and Hall of Famer Billy Cunningham discusses his time at UNC, how he got the nickname "The Kangaroo Kid", and more. Next,...
Fri May 22, 2020
Tar Heel Firsts: The first UNC alumnus to win an NBA championship
Billy Cunningham became the first Tar Heel to win an NBA title in 1967. The future Hall-of-Famer made four all-star teams before jumping to the...
Sun May 10, 2020