What league did the shortest player ever to play in the NBA play for a team in Rhode Island from?
Rhode Island Gulls The Rhode Island Gulls were a team in the United States Basketball League (USBL). They have many notable former players such as Manute Bol, Spud Webb, John "Hot Rod" Williams, Muggsy Bogues, Robert Rose, and Dick Johnson from Warwick, Rhode Island.
Mel Counts Mel Grant Counts (born October 16, 1941) is an American retired basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1964 to 1976. An excellent outside shooter for a 7 footer, he was on the United States Olympic basketball team that won the gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He played in college for Oregon State University and was selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1964 NBA draft. The Celtics won the NBA Championship in 1965 and 1966 with Counts on the team as Bill Russell's backup, but he was traded for the 1967 season to the Baltimore Bullets. Halfway through that season he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, who made it to the playoffs that year.