Samuel Ray Little (born March 29, 1946) is a retired professional basketball player who spent one season in the American Basketball Association (ABA) as a member of the Kentucky Colonels during the 1969–70 season after a successful college career at Delta State University. While he was not drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) after graduating from Delta State, the New Orleans Buccaneers did select him in the 1969 ABA Draft. Little was also a coach, heading Utah Valley University's men's basketball team for the first two seasons in the program's history (1972–1974).