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Rik Smits is a Dutch former professional basketball player, born in Eindhoven on the 23rd of August 1966, who spent his entire NBA career with the Indiana Pacers. Standing 7 feet 4 inches tall, he was nicknamed the Dunking Dutchman and played for the Pacers from 1988 until his retirement in 2000.
Rik Smits was selected with the second overall pick in the 1988 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers. He was drafted out of Marist College and became the first and only Marist player ever to appear in the NBA or WNBA.
Rik Smits scored a career-high 44 points on the 10th of December 1995, in a 111-104 win over the Los Angeles Clippers. That season he averaged 18.5 points per game, the highest single-season average of his career.
Rik Smits retired at the conclusion of the 1999-2000 season, after Indiana lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals 4 games to 2. Persistent foot problems, caused by nerve damage from wearing tight shoes as a teenager, had hobbled him for the majority of his career.
After retiring, Smits devoted himself to collecting and racing vintage motocross motorcycles. In 2008 he won the AHRMA Vintage National Premier 500 Intermediate Class riding a BSA 500, and was featured in Yahoo! Sports in November 2011 for his competitive motocross activities.
Smits briefly appeared in the 1988 film Coming to America. The scene was filmed in 1987 during a game at Madison Square Garden in which Marist played against St. John's.