This NBA Player Invented The “High Five”...Then He Passed Away

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2022
  • This NBA player is named Derek Smith. He was widely credited as the person who invented the "high five", but his NBA journey was quite a tragic one. Hope you enjoy the video!
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  • @junaidshahzad6803
    @junaidshahzad6803 Год назад +129

    You should also mention how his son, Nolan Smith, went on to become a basketball player for Duke, then part of Coach K’s coaching staff, and is now an assistant coach at his Dad’s Alma Mater UofL

  • @sensethevillen
    @sensethevillen Год назад +148

    That’s one hell of a title.

    • @bobbyloveoblock6580
      @bobbyloveoblock6580 Год назад +5

      i swear 🤣

    • @coolbreeze3793
      @coolbreeze3793 Год назад +5

      You know how Andy gets.

    • @eggggg00
      @eggggg00 Год назад +8

      Clickbait at its finest

    • @calamorta
      @calamorta Год назад +2

      3:18
      I swear I thought he would say something like "this dude popularized high fives after converting a free throw" or something, but nah

  • @calebdouglas7622
    @calebdouglas7622 Год назад +153

    It’s even more tragic than Michael Redd’s story who was still able to make one all star team but by the end of the 00’s knee injuries plagued him badly. Derek Smith will always be a great what if R.I.P.

    • @Vladraac
      @Vladraac Год назад +12

      Michael Redd was super hot for the season I picked him up on my fantasy team. Then he pretty much disappeared.

    • @calebdouglas7622
      @calebdouglas7622 Год назад

      @@Vladraac He was always the perfect example of a broken card in 2k. You can shoot anywhere on the court with him and 99% of the time it goes in.

  • @chriscj71
    @chriscj71 Год назад +57

    Thank you for making this video. Never heard of this story before. Now Derek’s story can live on & reach a new generation

  • @AirRusher1992
    @AirRusher1992 Год назад +90

    Well honestly I have never heard of Derek Smith but he does have an interesting story. RIP. That's all I can say.

  • @brucelau2023
    @brucelau2023 Год назад +66

    Never heard of Derek Smith but absolutely that’s insane, more videos of NBA stories and players we’ve never heard

    • @memphis1038
      @memphis1038 Год назад +1

      He son played for Duke won national Championship Nolan smith if you know that name?

  • @beaniealex
    @beaniealex Год назад +30

    There’s always more to learn in the history of the game. RIP to Smith 🙏🏼

  • @EuanNunez
    @EuanNunez Год назад +15

    I felt bad for Derek, just wanted to become a great basketball player, humble man, damn tragedy is bad tho

  • @athanasioskosmas3915
    @athanasioskosmas3915 Год назад +15

    His life could easily be a film. This was shocking. Rest in peace Smith🙏

  • @jpowell6418
    @jpowell6418 Год назад +12

    This is why I've been a subscriber. You always come up with content that hasn't been rehashed over and over again.
    Tragic story but a very good video telling it. Keep it coming!

  • @danielvasquez3758
    @danielvasquez3758 Год назад +11

    Love it man!! Always entertaining us with these new stories we have never heard of!!

  • @Late2Hoops
    @Late2Hoops Год назад +15

    You never fail to bring a unique topic to the surface bro. I aspire to continue to try an be as creative as you.

  • @crbcannon
    @crbcannon Год назад +1

    Another great video! I’ve never heard of this story. Sad to hear about him..

  • @SydneySmith11
    @SydneySmith11 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this! ❤️ you captured who dad was perfectly.

  • @jasonallen3678
    @jasonallen3678 Год назад +1

    I love when you guys do stories on unsung athletes ✊

  • @TrahNO2
    @TrahNO2 Год назад

    I was a huge Nolan Smith fan as a teen, playing ball myself. This was a great video. Thanks Andy.

  • @snail4253
    @snail4253 Год назад

    This is really a crazy story great video

  • @nba_jaymin
    @nba_jaymin Год назад +6

    Kobe died 4 yrs after he retired 😢 I would’ve loved to see what he would have become life after the nba still the saddest day in sports history

  • @ND-OPS
    @ND-OPS Год назад +4

    Andy you sounds sick! Get well soon

  • @austinmiller8111
    @austinmiller8111 Год назад

    Did not know this story before this. Thanks for sharing it. Rip

  • @Kamrose24
    @Kamrose24 Год назад +2

    I never heard of the guy… gone way too soon and too early fr fr💔

  • @davidjohnson8976
    @davidjohnson8976 Год назад +1

    I remember him R.I.P. He was overshadowed by doctor dunkenstein darryl griffith but was much tougher and versatile. Great video.

  • @orlandowoodson7978
    @orlandowoodson7978 Год назад

    Great video

  • @SavoxYT
    @SavoxYT Год назад

    It's such a weird coincidence that Smith and the first two you mentioned at the start of the video all played for the Celtics. It's like playing for or being drafted by them was a bad omen back then.

  • @GarkKahn
    @GarkKahn Год назад +1

    As someone who knew nothing besides jordan playing in chicago, the teams names and a few other things before the restart of the league in orlando i must thank you because most of my nba knowledge comes from you
    You're a real basketball historian andy

  • @brucelau2023
    @brucelau2023 Год назад +1

    That is still tragic to this guy . Just unbelievable

  • @ayrtonadiong
    @ayrtonadiong Год назад +3

    This is Nolan Smith's dad.

  • @normanbinder6233
    @normanbinder6233 Год назад +4

    Why does Andy's voice sounds like slowed 0.25x

  • @feddi7693
    @feddi7693 Год назад +2

    Never heard of him but R.I.P.

  • @ing4gi
    @ing4gi Год назад +1

    Bro Len Bias' frame was crazy 😭0:14 The fact that he was less than 22 yo in this pic is insane to me

  • @TempoQuin
    @TempoQuin Год назад

    Indeed a sad story. Never heard of it. Rip Derek Smith.

  • @triplennnoflaf
    @triplennnoflaf 2 месяца назад

    Wow, what a tombstone for Derek Smith. R.I.P. D.S. Will always remember him on the 1980 Louisville Cardinal championship team.

  • @niccolobanini7190
    @niccolobanini7190 Год назад

    Very very nice content

  • @kam_12_
    @kam_12_ Год назад +1

    had to have been so sad for the friends and family on the cruise :( especially his wife n kids

  • @camerenrandi
    @camerenrandi Год назад +2

    His son had a great career at Duke. I remember him playing with the 6ers I also remember when he blew his knee with the clippers

  • @rebelrising9719
    @rebelrising9719 Год назад

    Get well soon Andy

  • @handbanana5555
    @handbanana5555 Год назад

    80's and 90's what if stories series would cool. its all history to us for the most part

  • @em6568
    @em6568 Год назад

    You should make a video about Brandon Jennings. He was one of my favorite players to watch. That era of the NBA was the best

  • @nbapbaupdate8338
    @nbapbaupdate8338 Год назад

    Bias biggest " What IF " NBA history 🔥💪💪

  • @therealjd4life
    @therealjd4life Год назад +1

    He was on the Sixers during the 89-90 season and he received high praise from Charles Barkley...

  • @GetBenched2010
    @GetBenched2010 Год назад +5

    While Bias was a great 'might have been' story, I put Hank Gathers ahead of him.

  • @liubron4435
    @liubron4435 Год назад

    I’m so glad ekgs exist now to many stars were lost before then

  • @SuperNASCARrocks
    @SuperNASCARrocks Год назад +1

    Never heard of Derek Smith before. That’s a crazy story. From rags to riches in the NBA in a way. Sad ending to his story.

  • @CoachMarcus92
    @CoachMarcus92 Год назад

    Derek smiths son Nolan could hoop in high school. Oak hill academy he was a monster. Went on to play at Duke and in the nba as well. Coaches for Duke now. I remember hearing about his dad when Nolan played in a high school game vs OJ Mayo I believe. RIP to Derek Smith.

  • @antoniiio0312
    @antoniiio0312 Год назад +3

    You forgot to include Petrovic as example

    • @AustinHansen
      @AustinHansen Год назад +1

      Malik Sealy too. Killed at 30 years old by a drunk driver after leaving Kevin Garnett’s birthday party. The drunk driver who hit him was driving the wrong way down the freeway and got a whole 4 years in prison for it.

  • @danielvasquez3758
    @danielvasquez3758 Год назад +4

    We're just a month away ladies and gentlemen!! Not that long of an off season and we'll be seeing the guys on TNT and ESPN!!!

  • @bootypounderzzz4313
    @bootypounderzzz4313 Год назад +9

    I heard the high five was invented during a baseball game in the late 70’s

    • @bootypounderzzz4313
      @bootypounderzzz4313 Год назад

      @@sactownchad haven’t watched the video yet , just saw the title and replied

  • @theophilusjones6024
    @theophilusjones6024 Год назад +1

    Wow that’s sad

  • @aldouscoroza
    @aldouscoroza Год назад

    I never heard of this Dude, I think I might do more searching on him

  • @aldenencluna6409
    @aldenencluna6409 Год назад

    R.I.P.

  • @ianosaurus27
    @ianosaurus27 Год назад

    This is shockingly sad
    😭😭😭😭

  • @achilles2365
    @achilles2365 Год назад +3

    You sound sick here bruh. Take a rest

  • @veejee1508
    @veejee1508 Год назад

    Mud love from israel
    Thanks for sharing another unknown nba story

  • @championof12
    @championof12 Год назад

    I didn't know those facts about Derek Lewis I never heard of him

  • @KhiryTheKonqueror
    @KhiryTheKonqueror Год назад

    I heard of him I remember his son playing in league

  • @Jackey_Chen
    @Jackey_Chen Год назад +2

    Wow this interesting...

  • @bryanburnap4537
    @bryanburnap4537 2 месяца назад

    People forget that before Mr Larry Bird smacked his head on the floor with a busted back in game 5 vs the Pacers in 91 and then proceeded to return from the locker room to score 32 and beat the Pacers - that the game was turning into the "Derek Smith" game. He had around 10-12 points and was having a great game before Bird did his thing

  • @nbapbaupdate8338
    @nbapbaupdate8338 Год назад +1

    Jaylen Brown next video Andy Hoops 🙏🙏🙏

  • @ajaay786
    @ajaay786 Год назад

    You ought make a video about dru joyce III

  • @MrE_
    @MrE_ Год назад

    Now we need the stories of the guys who invented the fist bump, the butt slap, and the most ancient form: the clap

  • @AhmetDursun1903
    @AhmetDursun1903 Год назад

    Another video adding to the "shadiness" of the cruise ships :)

  • @Odysseus1999
    @Odysseus1999 Год назад

    Sad story

  • @Titova-prababa
    @Titova-prababa Год назад

    RIP

  • @edwinvazquez4230
    @edwinvazquez4230 Год назад +1

    Hi Andy,
    Here’s a key for the background music of your next video about a certain team:
    Basic Implosion - Celtics, Lakers, Warriors, Magic, Wizards, Nets, Knicks, Raptors, Mavericks, Pelicans, Spurs, Bucks, 76ers, Pistons
    Eternity - Grizzlies, Rockets, Cavaliers, Nuggets, Heat, Bulls, Thunder, Hornets
    E L L A - Blazers, Pacers, Jazz, Clippers
    Crypto - Timberwolves, Kings, Suns
    Lord of Dance - Hawks
    City Lights City Dreams - Retro NBA (1980-2007)
    Let me know what team your next video will be about and use the music according to that team.

  • @jschwizz2842
    @jschwizz2842 Год назад +2

    Sounds like a ChubbyEmu title lol

  • @kenyattakariem9708
    @kenyattakariem9708 Год назад

    That Nolan Smith from duke father I knew about him

  • @lukegilbert7985
    @lukegilbert7985 Год назад

    People talk about having Dinner with Jay-Z. I wanna eat a meal with Andy Hoops and talk about Kendall Gill and Shawn Kemp. Then after dinner we can discuss Darius Miles for desert!

  • @dantekyle1775
    @dantekyle1775 Год назад

    Damn. Same age as me. Gonna get the heart checked out.

  • @2383Scorpio
    @2383Scorpio Год назад

    Actually, Derek Smith played small forward for the Louisville Cardinals because the star shooting guard on that college was "Dr. Dunkenstein" Darrell Griffith. Anyways, I heard his name on his obituary in an old sports Alamac, but I never knew that he invented the "High Five".

  • @MikeyMike0330
    @MikeyMike0330 Год назад +2

    Off topic but you sound kinda off. I hope you’re doing ok Andy!!

  • @poohlee2879
    @poohlee2879 Год назад

    Rip I didn't know that was my boy Nolan dad

  • @ill3404
    @ill3404 Год назад +1

    u ok? you sound sick

  • @jamesbenedict7516
    @jamesbenedict7516 Год назад

    Imagine going for a high-fiving to you teammate but you end up high-fiving Kobe

  • @rayglenn
    @rayglenn Год назад

    You forgot to mention his son Nolan Smith, who was a 2007 McDonald's All American, All ACC Player At Duke and a National Champion on the their 2010 Championship Team, former NBA Player, and now one of the top Young Assistant Coaches in College Basketball, as he just left Duke to become the Top Assistant at Louisville.

  • @_CoachW
    @_CoachW Год назад

    Wow what a story. My only dispute would be the high five. RIP Glenn Burke, LA Dodgers.

    • @rite755
      @rite755 Год назад

      Hey, I was thinking the same thing with Glenn Burke doing the “High five” with Dusty Baker at home plate in a World Series game in the early mid 70’s!

  • @vortexluigirosalina5557
    @vortexluigirosalina5557 Год назад

    I never heard of him I wonder what if he was still alive

  • @jreds79
    @jreds79 Год назад +3

    At first I thought this wax clickbait, but I didn't realize there might be two orgin stories about the high five. Usually when I think about who invented the high five, I think Glenn Burke.

  • @giantrobot9000
    @giantrobot9000 Год назад +4

    That dunk on Jordan @ 5:28 was NASTY….you don’t see MJ on the recieving end of many of those

  • @macewbee
    @macewbee Год назад

    Wow

  • @BeastSquad-uq1wh
    @BeastSquad-uq1wh 7 месяцев назад

    I have derek smith in my starting 5

  • @spunjbath
    @spunjbath Год назад

    Derek Smith was not the best NBA player ever.
    But he is one of the few players I've seen play who I associate with the word fierce.

  • @DaBigBlud
    @DaBigBlud Год назад

    I use to do so many school projects on Len Bias he was such a special player I honestly believe 100% he was better than Jordan

  • @Ping63ms
    @Ping63ms Год назад +1

    damn i never heard of someone living in a former slave cabin

  • @502Takers
    @502Takers Год назад

    Louisville fan here and I’ve never heard a bad word about Derek Smith thank you for making this !

  • @jackqueenan8418
    @jackqueenan8418 Год назад

    A good man lost. Nothing more to be said. The man loved his wife and kids and fought hard not to be a victim of his circumstances. I think many of us would have been had we grown up as he did. He deserved better than he got but at least he was able to put his kids in a position to succeed. If he’s looking down on us now he should be happy his son is coaching for the U of Louisville. Sleep well Derek. You deserved better than you got.

  • @doa_824
    @doa_824 Год назад +1

    I thought the high five was invented way longer ago that’s crazy

  • @AlbertoGonzalez-xn1lw
    @AlbertoGonzalez-xn1lw Год назад

    At first I confuse Derek with Ben Wilson

  • @proxypoke6331
    @proxypoke6331 Год назад +1

    You sound a little different, you okay?

  • @jonathantorres4101
    @jonathantorres4101 Год назад +4

    Klaus from American dad invented the high five

  • @jessef9041
    @jessef9041 Год назад +1

    Not as tragic as Len Bias or Reggie Lewis. If Len Bias makes the league, Jordan doesn't win 6 chips.

  • @dallinferguson994
    @dallinferguson994 Год назад

    He didn't invent the high five, but cool story

  • @korys8720
    @korys8720 Год назад

    playing for the clippers be like:

  • @jayherbogaming
    @jayherbogaming Год назад

    Wait Michael Redd died?

  • @fredierickjalbuenafat1689
    @fredierickjalbuenafat1689 Год назад

    SC30

  • @bradfordjohnson9316
    @bradfordjohnson9316 Год назад

    he look like bron

  • @make-outseries831
    @make-outseries831 Год назад

    Tf.... This dude didn't come up with the high five 🤣🤣 that was Soulja boy who did that... Y'all owe him like 5%

  • @timwalker6470
    @timwalker6470 Год назад

    No/he/didn't.
    Dusty/Baker...

  • @hubertsumlin9697
    @hubertsumlin9697 Год назад

    Dusty Baker

  • @chrisgraves4521
    @chrisgraves4521 Год назад

    He may have coined the term, Glen Burke is known for doing the high five in a pro sport setting

  • @BeingKyleBusch18
    @BeingKyleBusch18 Год назад +5

    There's something to be said about black basketball players in the NBA, that pass away, from preexisting heart conditions. I find it highly dubious, that no white NBA player has died, from heart or any other issues, while playing in the NBA.
    So as long as the NBA has been in existence, not one white NBA players has had a heart condition? I'm sure there has been a white basketball player with a heart condition but he was stopped in his tracks and was told, if you continue, you will die. This is why you never heard of a white basketball players that has died, while playing in the NBA.
    Black people, let alone black NBA players, don't get the same treatment within medical institutions, as white people. It's been well documented, that black people face discriminations in many forms, when they go to hospitals for treatment.
    So it makes sense, that it would be in a NBA franchises interest, to not bother to look deep into a black NBA player, that would cost the team, tens of millions if they were to point out a heart condition.
    What I'm saying is that these team doctors, don't look no further than a black NBA players ability to run up and down the court. Their health is secondary....

    • @imaginethat3026
      @imaginethat3026 Год назад +2

      Pistol Pete died at 40 while playing a pickup game. Its the only white player i know of.

    • @BeingKyleBusch18
      @BeingKyleBusch18 Год назад +1

      @@imaginethat3026 Yep, you're right.

    • @yajeel
      @yajeel Год назад +3

      That's one way to look at it, I guess?
      ...Another way could be that these kinds of abnormalities might be more or less common in certain ethnic groups. Black people are less likely to have cystic fibrosis than white people. Different groups have different predispositions and it's not always that simple.
      I personally don't think it's helpful to cast aspersions like this. NBA teams have it in their best interest to conduct as thorough of a medical evaluation as they can. There is literally no downside to them. They can get insurance to pay for career ending medical issues.
      Things are probably better now in this regard than they were in the 80's.

    • @kushberry6679
      @kushberry6679 Год назад +2

      Well, the answer is quite simple.
      These type of tragic incidents happened during the 70s-90s. Black people were facing racism and discrimination regularly. The ghetto was still a thing and a lot of black NBA players were coming from poor neighborhoods where medical treatment was the last priority they needed, sadly.
      So when young black athletes suddenly made money overnight and became rich, their childhood's problems like not eating properly, not getting any medical checks/treatments etc appeared.
      Maybe it's just a coincidence, but for me it was a social problem.

    • @BeingKyleBusch18
      @BeingKyleBusch18 Год назад +1

      @@kushberry6679 It’s not race, it’s class!” is an argument that says that what seems to be caused by race or racism is in fact mainly being caused by class, by being rich, poor or middle-class.
      This argument appeals to:
      Left-wing White Americans - also known as white liberals. They experience classism way more than racism and think being colour-blind is a good thing. So they like this argument. It also allows them to avoid facing up to their own racism and unjust position in society.
      Marxists - who like to blame class.
      Europeans - who live in countries that are almost completely white, where the effects of class are far easier to see than those of race.
      It does not appeal to:
      Right-wing White Americans - who generally oppose raising taxes and changing society. If the ills of blacks and Latinos can be blamed on race, on something inborn (or even cultural), there is no need to raise taxes or change society. Better yet, if the ills of society, like poverty, drugs, crime and unemployment, can be blamed on blacks and Latinos, there is no reason to do anything serious about them either!
      rich whites - who use race to divide the working class in America, getting poor whites and even middle-class ones to vote against their class interests.
      poor whites - who have largely been persuaded by rich whites to blame blacks and Latinos, not rich whites, for the ills of society.
      skinheads and white nationalists - who like to blame race.
      middle-class blacks - who see that while education and money make life easier, they do not make white racism go away.
      poor blacks - who tend to blame white racism for their ills, but, like rich and middle-class whites, are not well-positioned to tell the difference between the effects of race and class.
      Notice that while some whites blame race (how black people are born), blacks blame white racism (what white people do). Big difference.
      The black middle-class and poor whites are, arguably, in the best position to tell the difference between race and class and how they affect people. For everyone else race and class line up in the same direction so it is hard to tell.
      In America class does matter but race generally matters more. For example, poor whites live longer and read better than middle-class blacks. When I lived in Queens in New York City during the crack epidemic, blacks made better money than whites on average yet their neighborhoods were on the whole far more violent. None of this you would expect from the white liberal view of America.
      White American thinking about the nature of society and power has its roots in Europe, so it is easier for them to think in terms of class. But they do not live in an ordinary European class-based society. They live in a race-based one with roots in colonialism. On top of that, most of what they think they know about race are self-serving lies.