Randy Smith (basketball)

Randolph Smith (December 12, 1948 – June 4, 2009) was an American professional basketball player who set the NBA record for consecutive games played.

Smith was an outstanding all-around athlete at Buffalo State College, earning All-American honors in three sports: basketball, soccer and track.

Playing alongside league scoring champion Bob McAdoo, Smith averaged 21.8 points per game in the 1975–76 season, and was named to the All-NBA Second Team.

On November 3, 1982, Smith played in his 845th consecutive NBA game, breaking Johnny Kerr's iron man record.

He had requested to be waived to play for a contender late in the 1982–83 NBA season and he missed a game while waiting to clear waivers.

In early 1975 at age 26, while nearing the height of his basketball career, Smith tried out for the expansion Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League.

[1] Smith was inducted into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame on Long Island in the Basketball Category with the Class of 1990.