University of North Carolina All-American Phil Ford signed autograph set-NICE!

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Check it out...Here's an UNCOMMON 8 1/2" tall by 11" wide AUTOGRAPH & photo of legendary University of North Carolina All-American star & NBA star Phil Ford, Jr.-The page features a HUGE black ink signature on a 6x3 cut from Ford's personal North Carolina letterhead signed "Best Wishes, Phil Ford, Jr." and is tipped to a larger blue backer with a photo of Ford as a Tarheels player on front- Signature is crisp & clear. What a great vintage item with a 100% authentic signature! This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 4.95 postage is required.
University of North Carolina All-American Phil Ford signed autograph set-NICE!
University of North Carolina All-American Phil Ford signed autograph set-NICE!
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Check it out...Here's an UNCOMMON 8 1/2" tall by 11" wide AUTOGRAPH & photo of legendary University of North Carolina All-American star & NBA star Phil Ford, Jr.-The page features a HUGE black ink signature on a 6x3 cut from Ford's personal North Carolina letterhead signed "Best Wishes, Phil Ford, Jr." and is tipped to a larger blue backer with a photo of Ford as a Tarheels player on front- Signature is crisp & clear.
Here's some info on Ford:
Phil Jackson Ford Jr. (born February 9, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He graduated from Rocky Mount Senior High School in 1974, and had an All-American college career with the North Carolina Tar Heels. Ford was the first freshman under head basketball coach Dean Smith to start in his first collegiate basketball game. During the season, he averaged 16.4 points and 5.2 assists per game - both of which were UNC freshman records that would stand for more than 20 years. Ford led UNC to a second-place finish in the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season standings, and then to a championship win over North Carolina State University in the 1975 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament. This win broke N.C. State's 2-year winning streak as ACC Champions. Ford averaged 26 points in the tournament and was named tournament MVP - the first freshman in ACC history to achieve that honor. Ford averaged 18.6 points and 7.0 assists per game. His assists average established a UNC single-season record until Ed Cota averaged 7.4 assists during the 1997-98 season. Ford led UNC to a first-place finish during the ACC regular season and was a First Team All-ACC selection, an honor he would also receive in his Junior and Senior seasons. He also was a consensus second-team All-American. After his sophomore season, Ford was the starting point guard for the 1976 U.S. Olympic team, coached by Dean Smith, which won the gold medal that summer. In 6 Olympic games, Ford totaled 54 assists for a very high 9.0 average. Ford averaged 18.7 points and 6.6 assists per game while once again leading the Tar Heels to a first-place ACC regular season finish. In the 1977 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Ford scored 26 points in the championship game against the University of Virginia to propel UNC to another conference title. In the 1977 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament, Ford helped advance the Tar Heels into the Final Four and all the way to the NCAA Championship Game, despite hyperextending his shooting elbow in the regional semifinal game against the University of Notre Dame. Ford was named a consensus first-team All-American at the end of the season. In his final season, Ford averaged 20.8 points and 5.7 assists a game, and scored a career-high 34 points in his final home game - a victory against Duke University, which clinched another ACC first-place finish for the Tar Heels. At the end of the season, Ford repeated as a consensus first-team All-American and was recognized as the National Player of the Year when he won the USBWA, NABC and Sporting News Player of the Year awards, as well as the John R. Wooden Award. Ford was known as an excellent ballhandler and penetrator who possessed a very accurate pull-up jump shot. He was also very adept at making free throws, especially in the final minutes of close games. His ballhandling and free-throw shooting skill allowed him to be at his best when running Carolina's Four Corners offense, an offensive strategy that some college teams used to either stall or score only when taking extremely safe shots. However, when Ford was dribbling the ball in the center of the four corners alignment, he often found teammates for quick, easy baskets or drew fouls on the other team. Coach Smith often employed this offense when UNC needed to protect a lead in the final minutes of a game, and Ford's abilities all but ensured that such a lead would be maintained. Ford also mastered the 360-degree spinning layup. Ford is widely considered to be among the greatest college point guards of all time, and some contend he is still the greatest point guard ever to play in the ACC. He finished his career at Carolina as the all-time leading scorer in school history, with 2,290 points. He also set school and ACC career records for total assists, with 753 (a mark since broken by several other players). On December 18, 2008, Tyler Hansbrough surpassed Ford's career scoring total. He also finished his career as the only player in Atlantic Coast Conference history to score over 2,000 points and register at least 600 assists (a record now shared with Travis Best of Georgia Tech and Greivis Vásquez of Maryland). Ford was especially productive in ACC Tournament play, as he averaged 23.6 points per game in 8 career tournament contests. In both his Junior and Senior years, Ford won the ACC Athlete of the Year award, making him one of just a few ACC athletes ever to win the award twice. Ford was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in May 1991. In 2002, Ford was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team honoring the fifty best players in ACC history. The second pick in the first round of the draft, Ford was NBA Rookie of the Year with the Kansas City Kings in 1979. In 482 NBA games, Ford scored 5,594 points, an 11.6 average, and had 3,083 assists, an average of 6.4 per game. He retired from the NBA in 1985.
What a great vintage item with a 100% authentic signature! This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item!
Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 4.95 postage is required.
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