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| - Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is a retired NBA basketball player and currently a sportscaster for NBC Sports. Smith played four years of college basketball as a shooting guard at Pittsburgh, where he, along with teammate Paul Young, helped turn the Panthers into an elite program, going to the Final Four in 1990 and 1991, losing to Kansas both years in overtime. In 2005, Smith signed a ten-year contract with NBC Sports as a sportscaster, a job he currently holds.
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| - Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is a retired NBA basketball player and currently a sportscaster for NBC Sports. Smith played four years of college basketball as a shooting guard at Pittsburgh, where he, along with teammate Paul Young, helped turn the Panthers into an elite program, going to the Final Four in 1990 and 1991, losing to Kansas both years in overtime. He was the third pick in the 1991 NBA Draft, going to the Milwaukee Bucks, where he was moved to point guard. In 1993-1994, he won the NBA scoring title, regular-season MVP award and the Finals MVP award as he led the "Breakout Bucks" to their first-ever NBA title in a seven-game series against the New York Knicks. He won the season MVP in 1996 as well as the Finals MVP, leading the Bucks to the title that year as well. He won his third championship in Milwaukee in 1999. Following the 2000 season, Smith was unexpectedly traded to the Kansas City Kings, where he came off the bench to help provide senior leadership to the young team in winning the Western Conference, although the Kings fell to the 76ers in six games in the 2001 Finals. Smith played two more years with the Kings before being cut prior to the 2003 playoffs having missed significant time to injuries. In his final season, Smith played with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets before retiring in 2004. In 2005, Smith signed a ten-year contract with NBC Sports as a sportscaster, a job he currently holds.
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