Phillip "Philosophy" Sellers, Junior. is an American former professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the.
Education
Sellers signed a letter of intent to play at Notre Dame, but worries about managing the tough academics made him reconsider and so he attended Livingston College in New Jersey, a part of specially designed to help students from low-income backgrounds.
Career
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sellers played high school basketball at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn. He also earned All-America honors at Jefferson and received over 200 scholarship offers from colleges across the country to play basketball. At Rutgers, Sellers played under then-assistant coach and future college basketball legend Dick Vitale.
His decision to become a Scarlet Knight was initially criticized, but Sellers lead Rutgers to two National Institute of Technology berths during his freshman and sophomore seasons and then back-to-back National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament appearances in his final two collegiate seasons.
1975-1976 season
"s best men"s basketball season in school history came during 1975-1976. Sellers, a senior and Consensus Second Team All-American, led the team to a 31–0 start.
The team finished 31–2, and their only two losses occurred in the national semifinals (to Michigan) and the third-place game (to University of California, Los Angeles). Sellers graduated from Rutgers in 1976 and is still the school"s all-time leading scorer (2,399) and rebounder (1,115).
On January 16, 1988, he had his jersey number (#12) retired, making him one of only three Scarlet Knights players to have ever been so honored.
After graduating, Sellers was picked in the third round (38th overall) of the 1976 Draft by the Detroit Pistons, but lasted only a year with the Pistons before being put on waivers. He then served as an assistant at Rutgers for three years before moving on to a job with a mortgage banking firm in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Sellers finished his one-year career averaging 4.5 points, 0.9 rebounds and 0.6 assists in 44 games played.