Edward Eugene "Ed" Rains is an American former basketball player. He played for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. Rains played college basketball for the University of South Alabama from 1977 to 1981. In his college career, he scored 1,801 points and in his senior season was named the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year. After the close of his college career, Rains was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA in the second round of the 1981 NBA draft. He appeared in 83 games for the Spurs over two seasons, averaging 3.5 points per game. He was the first player from South Alabama to appear in an NBA game. [More at Wikipedia]

December 24th, 1956 in Ocala (Age 67)