The Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame has presented Caldwell County High School with a display for Greg Smith, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in August in Elizabethtown.
The presentation was made Friday night, prior to the Tigers’ home game against Dawson Springs.
Curtis Turley, representing the KHSBHF, was on hand to make the presentation. Turley played basketball at Crittenden County and is a former head coach at Lyon County. Turley also had coaching stops at Berea, Warren Central, Graves County, Henderson County, Greenwood, Shelby County, Daviess County, Lexington Catholic, Louisville Manual, Warren East and Martha Layne Collins.
Smith, who lives in Portland, Ore., was unable to attend the ceremony, but his sister, Sheila Smith-Anderson, represented the family while Principal Daniel Kukahiko represented Caldwell County High School.
Smith was a standout on Caldwell County’s 1964 2nd Region championship squad. The previous year, he helped lead Princeton Dotson to the regional championship.
His senior year at Caldwell saw him average 16.1 points and 13.6 rebounds a game. He is the only Caldwell player to have his jersey retired by the school, and he still holds the record for most rebounds in a game — 37 against Madisonville Rosenwald.
Greg Smith joins his brother Dwight as the only brothers to be inducted into the Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame.
After high school, Greg followed Dwight to Western Kentucky University, where the Hilltoppers won two OVC titles and earned two NCAA berths.
Greg was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks, and was a starter on the 1971 team that won the NBA championship, playing alongside Hall of Famers Lew Alcindor (who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Oscar Robertson.
Smith ended his NBA career with the Portland Trailblazers.
