Pinetop Perkins, born Joe Willie Perkins, 7th July 1913, Belzoni, Mississippi, USA.
A barrelhouse blues pianist from before his teens, Perkins traveled through Mississippi and Arkansas, and north to St Louis and Chicago, playing piano, and sometimes guitar, behind Big Joe Williams, Robert Nighthawk, John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson and others.
In 1969, Perkins replaced Otis Spann in the Muddy Waters Band, with which he toured up to and after the leader's death, also working as a solo act.
SamPerkins has enjoyed a wealth of success on the basketball court.
As a rookie with the Mavericks in 1984-85, Perkins averaged 11.0 points and 7.4 rebounds (18.8 ppg in the playoffs) and made the NBA All-Rookie Team.
He was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics during the 1992-93 season and has continued to prosper as a three-point-shooting center on the talented Sonics squads.
Perkins had been intrigued by the work of Tacoma based specialists who were making headlines all over the state with their ability to raise complete buildings and move them to more suitable locales.
Sam was an automobile aficionado and decided to renovate the vacant space into a parking garage.
Perkins' eventually found suitable work with the Republican Party and then became the personal secretary and confidante of Mark Hanna of Ohio, a powerful and influential mid-westerner who was running William McKinley’s campaign for the presidency.
SamPerkins, the oldest, most playoff-tested player on the Indiana Pacers, turns 39 Wednesday, the day of Game 4 in the NBA Finals.
Perkins, who expects to retire after the series, has come off the bench for two seasons and has given the Pacers some muscle under the basket and a sweet 3-point touch, drawing cries of "Smooooth" from the fans just about every time he touches the ball.
A member of North Carolina's 1982 NCAA championship team, Perkins was picked by Dallas in the first round of the 1984 draft, the fourth player overall.
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Samuel Bruce Perkins (born June 6, 1961) was a professional basketball player, also known by the nickname "The Big Smooth." ==Biography== SamPerkins was born in Brooklyn, New York City.
Sam retired after the 1999-2000 season having played for 17 years.
However, Sam's former UNC teammate Michael Jordan and his team would rally back the next four games and take the championship.
During his four years at UNC, Perkins was part of a core that won the 1982 NCAA Championship with Michael Jordan and James Worthy and later Brad Daugherty.
Perkins played at the college from the 1980-1981 season to the 1983-1984 season, after which he was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks.
As a team co-captain, Perkins was sixth on the team in scoring, averaging 8.1 points and 5.4 rebounds on a U.S. team that breezed through the competition, winning all eight of its games by no less than 11 points.
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For basketball fans new to the unorthodoxies of the Sonics, Perkins is one of several big men unafraid to wander from the hoop and let one fly.
But it is Perkins, long-distance shooting that has become a trademark of a Sonics offense that has the versatility this season to allow the team to dunk on the ghosts of playoff.
Most fans have forgotten that in the famous draft of 1984 that sent Hakeem Olajuwon to Houston, Sam Bowie to Portland and Jordan to Chicago, Jordan's North Carolina teammate, Perkins, was the next player selected, by Dallas.
SamPerkins, the oldest, most playoff-tested player on the Indiana Pacers, turns 39 Wednesday, the day of Game 4 in the NBA Finals.
Perkins, who expects to retire after the series, has come off the bench for two seasons and has given the Pacers some muscle under the basket and a sweet 3-point touch, drawing cries of "Smooooth" from the fans just about every time he touches the ball.
A member of North Carolina's 1982 NCAA championship team, Perkins was picked by Dallas in the first round of the 1984 draft, the fourth player overall.
Perkins was a star on Carolina's 1982 national championship team and was named First-Team All-American in 1984.
As Perkins grew older, he became an expert three-point marksman, perhaps one of the best for his size in NBA history.
"Sam was a consummate pro, an inspiration in the sense that at his age he never missed a practice, even when he was hurt," said Pacers president, and UNC grad, Donnie Walsh.
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Perkins will replace Zan Tabak in the starting lineup on Tuesday night, the Indianapolis Star reports.
Perkins had an MRI on his sprained neck on Friday, the Indianapolis Star reports.
Pacers head coach Isiah Thomas is going to go back to a veteran lineup and start Derrick McKey and SamPerkins on Tuesday, the Indianapolis Starnews reports.
