Kenny Smith is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on March 8, 1965 in New York City, New York State, United States. Point guard known as “The Jet,” who won back-to-back NBA titles with the Houston Rockets in the mid-1990s. He later became an analyst for TNT’s Inside the NBA after retirement.
He and Charles Barkley became the lead commentators on TNT’s Inside the NBA segment.
Smith was born in Queens, New York City and grew up in LeFrak City. He played some of his earliest basketball at New York’s Riverside Church. Smith attended Archbishop Molloy High School, where he was coached by Jack Curran, the winningest high school coach in New York City and New York State history. Smith was named a McDonald’s All-American in 1983, then played basketball at the University of North Carolina for Dean Smith. Smith credits former South Carolina State star Bobby Lewis with his development as a shooter and ballhandler. Lewis averaged 30.9 points per game and was a First Team Division II All-American as a senior at South Carolina State. He later developed the Bobby Lewis Basketball Skills Development Program, a training regimen that he presented at basketball camps around the country. Smith attended several of his lectures while in high school, and continued to use Lewis’s drills throughout his basketball career, and teaches them at his own basketball camps. Of Lewis, Smith said, “He’s the best lecturer ever. He had the best influence in terms of my workout regimen without question.”
Smith represented the United States in the 1986 FIBA World Championship, on a team that included David Robinson, Muggsy Bogues and Steve Kerr. He was second on the team in scoring behind Charles Smith with 14.7 points per game. Smith scored 23 points to lead the US to an 87–85 win and the Gold Medal over a Soviet Union team that featured Arvydas Sabonis.
He married the Price Is Right model Gwendolyn Osborne-Smith in 2006. They have a son named Malloy and daughters named London and Kayla.
