Samuel Troy Pellom (born October 2, 1951) is a retired American basketball player born in Wilmington, North Carolina. The 6'9" forward-center played professionally for the Atlanta Hawks and the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA and played college basketball at the University at Buffalo, and is to date the only player from that university's basketball team who ever played in the NBA. Pellom also played for the Washington Generals, the team that plays the Harlem Globetrotters.