Phil Sellers Age, Biography, Wife, Children
The Rutgers men’s basketball family mourns the loss of Scarlet Knights legend Phil Sellers, who passed away at the age of 69 years old on Tuesday night.
Sellers is Rutgers’ all-time scoring and rebounding leader with 2,399 points and 1,115 rebounds and was the leader of the 1975-76 Final Four team. The 1975-76 team was the greatest team in Rutgers men’s basketball history.
Phil Sellers Biography
Phil Sellers Jr. was an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association.
Born on November 20, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, Phil Sellers played high school basketball at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn.
He achieved success at the prep level, winning the MVP Award of Pittsburgh’s Dapper Dan Tournament, a tournament with the nation’s top high school players, at the end of his senior season.
He also earned Third-Team Parade All-American honors at Jefferson and received over 200 scholarship offers from colleges across the country to play basketball.
Sellers signed a letter of intent to play at Notre Dame, but academic concerns made him reconsider and so he attended Livingston College in New Jersey, a part of Rutgers University specially designed to help students from low-income backgrounds.
At Rutgers, Sellers was recruited by and played under then-assistant coach and future college basketball legend Dick Vitale.
Professional career
After graduating from Rutgers, Sellers was picked in the third round (38th overall) of the 1976 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons.
The 6’4″ Sellers changed to the guard position, having played forward in college, and struggled with the increased ball-handling responsibilities. Sellers said, “I couldn’t play guard.
They had doubts. Even me, I had doubts.” Sellers spent the year with Detroit, playing the tumultuous 1976-77 Detroit Pistons season with Marvin “Bad News” Barnes, averaging 4.5 ppg in 44 games. He was released prior to the following season.
After his release by Detroit, Sellers played for the Jersey Shore Bullets in the Continental Basketball Association and then for BV Amstelveen in the Netherlands.
He tried out for the Pistons again in 1979, under his former assistant coach at Rutgers Dick Vitale, but was cut before the season began.
Phil Sellers death
Phil Sellers died on September 20, 2023.
Phil Sellers Age
Phil Sellers was born November 20, 1953 and died on September 20, 2023 (aged 69).
Phil Sellers Net Worth
According to Allfamousbirthday, Phil Sellers had an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Phil Sellers wife
Since his playing days, Sellers lived a modest life, living, and working in New Jersey, raising a family, and becoming a grandfather. He has persevered after having lost his wife Pat to cancer four years ago.
Phil Sellers Children
Sellers is survived by his daughter Kendra Sellers Palmer and his son Phil Sellers.
Phil Sellers Parents
Not Much is known about Phil Parents.
Phil Sellers Siblings
Not Much is known about Phil Siblings. All information about his private life is concealed. We will update you soon.
Phil Sellers cause of death
Phil Sellers died from a stroke on September 20, 2023, at the age of 69.
Sellers had a series of medical setbacks this year, including an intestinal perforation and a build up of fluid in his lungs, that required multiple surgeries and left him in a rehabilitation center. He suffered a stroke earlier this month and he did not recover, a family spokesman told NJ.com.
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