But please take care of Sam," West told the press, per Yahoo Sports. While with the Tar Heels in the early '80s, Perkins was ...

Sam Perkins might have been another one ... “I saw an article about James Worthy—about his mother and father and his character,” he said. “I wanted Sam to be around good people ...

That team returned four of its top-six scorers for 1981-82 in Worthy, Sam Perkins, Jimmy Black ... gets brought up all the time. James Worthy went on to become a Finals MVP and Hall of Famer." ...