Ed Smith (basketball)

{{short description|American basketball player}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Ed Smith

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| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 6

| weight_lb = 180

| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|7|5}}

| birth_place = West Jefferson, Ohio

| nationality = American

| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|11|26|1929|7|5}}

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| college = Harvard (1948–1951)

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 6

| draft_year = 1951

| draft_team = New York Knicks

| career_start = 1953

| career_end = 1954

| career_number = 14

| career_position = Small forward

| years1 = {{nbay|1953|full=y}}

| team1 = New York Knicks

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Edward Bernard Smith (July 5, 1929 – November 26, 1998{{cite web |url=http://www.thedraftreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2624 |title=Ed Smith |work=thedraftreview.com |accessdate=October 2, 2010}}) was an NBA basketball player for the New York Knicks. He was drafted with the sixth pick in the first round of the 1951 NBA draft by the Knicks. He made his NBA debut in the 1953–54 NBA season and played in eleven games where he averaged 2.5 points per game and 2.4 rebounds per game.{{cite web|title=Ed Smith NBA statistics|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/smithed01.html|website=Basketball Reference|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|accessdate=26 September 2023}}