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Jerome Kersey ‘84 (Basketball, 1980-84) played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for six different teams, winning an NBA Championship with San Antonio (1999). He was a two-time National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division II All-American (1984, 1st-Team; 1983, 3rd-Team). A 1984 NBA Draft Second-Round selection (46th overall) of Portland, Kersey was the 1984 Virginia College Division Player of Year. He received an invitation to the 1984 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament (PIT) NBA pre-draft camp, and earned PIT All-Tournament Team honors. Kersey still holds 10 school-records, including career rebounds (1,162), and scored 1,756 career points to rank second all-time at Longwood. He served as an assistant coach with the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks during 2004-05, and also played professionally for Golden State, Los Angeles (Lakers), Seattle, and Milwaukee.
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