Benched Career
M.L. Carr, would become a professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA), then the head coach and General Manager of the Boston Celtics.
Carr and his best friend David Wells, had led their high school team to the semi-finals in the North Carolina State Championship Tournament. Carr, who went off to Gilford College called his old point guard, Wells, and told him to get up there to Gilford that this was a team that Wells could really help.
The problem was that until he walked into his first practice Wells had not seen his competition, the player that he was going to have to have to beat out as a guard, who was performing at that practice Wells attended. A talent that would have literally nailed Wells to the Guilford bench.
The incredible talent Wells witnessed, as fate would have it, actually moved Carr’s friend down the down the road to UNC Greensboro, where the almost Guilford benchwarmer, would pursue a degree in theater and eventually a life changing stage and screen career.
Well’s competition at Gilford, as it turns out, was none other than the player that would later be known as World B Free, the eventual ABA and NBA Star who, as a freshman, led that Guilford basketball team to the NAIA National Championship and was named MVP of the NAIA Tournament.
Wells: "I took one look at this guy slamming and jamming and I called ML over to the bench where I was watching from and said, "ML, you've gotta’ be shitting me, if you think I’m going to beat out this guy. So, I left the practice bench that day and eventually went off to New York and Hollywood, which was a very good decision.
David Wells David Wells, actor in Los Angeles for 35 years, is known for his varied and eccentric characters, whether it be the recent recurring Father Pete, the pedophile priest on Shameless, to the time traveling Mr. Quiche opposite Jeff Daniels in The Grand Tour, to the grave-digging Milton in House. Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans know him as the iconic "cheese man" character.
This almost bench warmer is a veteran of over 50 films and 100 plus television appearances, career highlights include George C. Scott and Jack Lemmon's Inherit The Wind, Michael Douglas' Basic Instinct, and Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop.
