Moses Scurry (born 14 June 1968) is a former college and professional
basketball
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player.
Born in
Brooklyn
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,
New York
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, Scurry played power forward for the
UNLV
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. It includes the S ...
Runnin' Rebels during the 1988–89 and
1989-90 seasons. The Rebels beat
Duke University
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103-73 to win the title game of the
1990 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
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. Scurry appeared on the cover of ''
Sports Illustrated
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'' the following week.
Primarily coming off the bench as the
sixth man
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during UNLV's championship season, Scurry was a favorite among UNLV fans and fellow players because of his animated, shouting style when grabbing rebounds, and was the team's leading rebounder during the
1989 NCAA tournament, pulling down 10.3 per game.
Scurry played in the
Japan Basketball League, where he won the MVP award and led
Kumagai Gumi Bruins to the league title in 1992.
In 1994-95, Scurry spent six months in jail for his role in a
carjacking
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in which another man was shot. After his release, he returned to Japan to play professional basketball for another season. He later joined the
Las Vegas Silver Bandits
The Las Vegas Silver Bandits were a team in the International Basketball League (IBL). They played at the Thomas and Mack Center in Paradise, Nevada in 1999.
The team president was Michael A. Olsen. The V.P. of Basketball Operations was Cindy Ha ...
of the
International Basketball League
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.
Scurry has three daughters, Clarissa, Asia and Diamond, and a son, Malik. Also, his older brother,
Carey Scurry played three years in the NBA, with the
Utah Jazz
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and
New York Knicks
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References
External links
"Moses Leads Way Again" ''Las Vegas Review-Journal''
1968 births
Living people
African-American basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Japan
Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
Las Vegas Silver Bandits players
Power forwards (basketball)
Basketball players from Brooklyn
UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball players
American men's basketball players
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
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