Chad Kinch
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born | Perth Amboy, New Jersey | May 22, 1958
Died | April 3, 1994 Carteret, New Jersey | (aged 35)
Nationality | American |
Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
Listed weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Perth Amboy (Perth Amboy, New Jersey) |
College | Charlotte (1976–1980) |
NBA draft | 1980: 1st round, 22nd overall pick |
Selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers | |
Playing career | 1980–1981 |
Position | Point guard / Shooting guard |
Number | 20, 21 |
Career history | |
1980–1981 | Cleveland Cavaliers |
1981 | Dallas Mavericks |
Stats at NBA.com | |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Chadwick Oliver "Chad" Kinch (basketball player. He was a 6'4" (1.93 m) 190 lb (86 kg) shooting guard and played collegiately at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte after starring at Perth Amboy High School in Perth Amboy, New Jersey,[1] his place of birth.
May 22, 1958 – April 3, 1994) was an American professionalHe was selected with the 22nd pick in the first round of the 1980 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers.[2] He spent his only NBA season (1980–81) split between the Cavaliers and the Dallas Mavericks. The Cavs traded Kinch, along with a 1985 first-round draft choice, to the Mavericks in exchange for Geoff Huston and a 1983 third-round draft choice on February 7, 1981.[2]
Kinch died of AIDS-related complications in 1994,[3] aged 35, at his home in Carteret, New Jersey.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b Staff. Chad Kinch, 35, Ex-Basketball Star, The New York Times, April 8, 1994. Accessed February 28, 2011. "CARTERET, N.J., April 7— Chad Kinch, a former basketball star at Perth Amboy High School in New Jersey and the Cleveland Cavaliers' No. 1 draft choice in 1980, died at home on Sunday. He was 35."
- ^ a b "Cavaliers All-Time Roster" (PDF). (4.14 MiB); retrieved June 26, 2007
- ^ Still stunning the world 10 years later, ESPN The Magazine
External links
- NBA stats @ basketballreference.com
- Chad Kinch profile @ thedraftreview.com
Categories:
- 1958 births
- 1994 deaths
- AIDS-related deaths in New Jersey
- American men's basketball players
- Basketball players at the 1977 NCAA Men's Division I Final Four
- Basketball players from New Jersey
- Charlotte 49ers men's basketball players
- Cleveland Cavaliers draft picks
- Cleveland Cavaliers players
- Dallas Mavericks players
- People from Carteret, New Jersey
- Sportspeople from Perth Amboy, New Jersey
- Shooting guards
- American basketball biography, 1950s birth stubs