| Position | Point guard/shooting guard |
|---|---|
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1. Point guard ( PG) also called the one or " the ball-handler " is one of the standard positions in a regulation Basketball game The Shooting guard ( SG) also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a Basketball team A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Inches redirects here To see the Les Savy Fav album see Inches. 83 m) |
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
| Born | November 20, 1944 Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Nationality | USA |
| High school | Southport High School |
| College | University of Kentucky |
| Draft | 38th overall, 1967 Cincinnati Royals |
| Pro career | 1968–1979 |
| Former teams | Kentucky Colonels 1968–76, San Antonio Spurs 1977–79 |
| Awards | ABA All-Time Team (1997) Seven-time ABA All-Star All-ABA Second Team (1968, 1969, 1970, 1974) ABA All-Rookie team (1968) ABA Championship with Colonels (1975) |
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A 6-foot-tall guard, Dampier is one of only a handful of men to play all nine seasons in the American Basketball Association (ABA) (1967-1976), all with the Kentucky Colonels. The three basketball positions normally employed by organized Basketball teams are guard forward and center The American Basketball Association ( ABA) was a professional Basketball league founded in 1967, and eventually merged in part with the National Athletics Marathon August 5 &mdash Pan American Games Marathon, Winnipeg Canada Men's Athletics For an extensive coverage see 1976 in athletics (track and field Marathon May The Kentucky Colonels were a member of the American Basketball Association for all of the league's 9 years He also was one of just two players to play all nine ABA seasons with the same team; the other was Byron Beck of the Denver Rockets, later renamed the Nuggets. A Byron Beck (born January 25, 1945 in Ellensburg Washington) is an American former professional Basketball player The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado.
He also played three seasons (1976-1979) in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the San Antonio Spurs. The 1976–77 NBA season was the 31st season of the National Basketball Association. The 1978–79 NBA season was the 33rd season of the National Basketball Association. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas.
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High school
Dampier was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and played at Southport High School in the suburb of Southport. Southport High School is a high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Southport is a city in Marion County, Indiana, United States. He also played in an annual all-star game featuring top high-school players from Indiana and Kentucky.
University of Kentucky
Dampier was a multi-sport athlete at the University of Kentucky, playing baseball as well as basketball. The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public, Co-educational, University, and is also the state's land-grant university located Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each Playing under the legendary coach Adolph Rupp, Dampier and Pat Riley led the Wildcats, who fielded an all-white basketball team, to the 1966 NCAA championship game, where they lost to Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso), which fielded an all-black starting lineup. Adolph Frederick Rupp ( September 2, 1901 &ndash December 10, 1977) was one of the most successful coaches Patrick James Riley (born March 20 1945 is a former American National Basketball Association head coach and current team president of the Miami Heat. Artistic Gymnastics World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Men's all-around champion Mikhail Voronin, USSR The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single elimination Tournament held each spring featuring 65 College basketball teams in the The University of Texas at El Paso, popularly known as UTEP, is a public, coeducational University, and it is a member of the University African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa This story was the center of the 2006 film Glory Road. Glory Road is an American film directed by James Gartner, released on January 13, 2006.
During his three years at Kentucky (at the time, freshmen were ineligible to play varsity sports), Dampier was a two-time All-American and three-time All-Southeastern Conference selection. The Southeastern Conference (SEC is a College Athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which operates in the southeastern He was also named Academic All-SEC twice and Academic All-American once. Upon graduation from Kentucky in 1967, Dampier scored 1,575 points, at the time third-most in school history behind only Cotton Nash (1,770) and Alex Groza (1,744). Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Charles Francis "Cotton" Nash (born July 24, 1942 in Jersey City New Jersey) is a former Major League Baseball Outfielder Alexander John Groza ( October 7, 1926 &ndash January 21, 1995) was an American Basketball player who was banned from the NBA
Pro basketball
In 1967 the Cincinnati Royals (now the Sacramento Kings) selected Dampier in the fourth round of the NBA Draft. The Sacramento Kings are a professional Basketball team based in Sacramento California. The NBA Draft is an annual North American event in which the National Basketball Association 's (NBA thirty teams (29 in the United States and one in Dampier eventually signed with the Kentucky Colonels of the fledgling ABA and teamed with Darel Carrier to form the most explosive backcourt duo in the league. James Darel Carrier (born October 26, 1940 in Warren County Kentucky) is a former professional Basketball player In each of the ABA's first three seasons, both Dampier and Carrier averaged at least 20 points per game. Both were three-point field goal specialists (the ABA had used the three-point field goal from its inception), but especially Dampier who made 500 during a three-year stretch: a record 199 during the 1968-69 season, 198 in 1969-70 and 103 in 1970-71. A three-point field goal (also known as three-pointer, three-point shot, trey, or simply three) is a field goal in a Basketball (The 199 stood as an ABA or NBA record, until John Starks made 217 during the 1994-95 NBA season. John Levell Starks (born August 10 1965) is an American retired professional Basketball player who gained fame while playing at Shooting The 1994–95 NBA season was the 49th season of the National Basketball Association. Dennis Scott broke that record a year later with 267; it now belongs to Ray Allen who made 269 in 2005-06. Dennis Eugene Scott (born September 5, 1968 in Hagerstown Maryland) is an American former professional Basketball player Walter Ray Allen (born July 20 1975 in Merced, California) commonly referred to as Ray Allen, is an American professional Basketball player The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. ) At the conclusion of the ABA's history, Dampier made a career-record 794 3-point field goals. [1]
He also finished first all-time in the ABA in games played (728), minutes played (27,770), points scored (13,726), and assists (4,044). In Basketball, an assist is attributed to a player who passes the ball to a teammate in a way that leads to a score by field goal, meaning that he or she was "assisting" [1] During the 1970-71 season, he hit 57 consecutive free throws for what was then a pro record (ABA or NBA). The 1970–71 NBA season was the 25th season of the National Basketball Association. Main article Basketball moves In Basketball, free throws or foul shots are unopposed attempts to score points from a restricted Seven times, he was named an ABA All-Star. He was a unanimous choice for the ABA Top 30 team. [2] He played on the Colonels’ 1975 ABA championship team, which featured a later University of Kentucky standout, Dan Issel, as well as 7' 2" center Artis Gilmore. Athletics For an extensive coverage see 1975 in athletics (track and field Marathon August Daniel (Dan Paul Issel (born October 25 1948 in Batavia Illinois) is a retired American professional Basketball player and coach Artis Gilmore (born September 21 1949 is a former professional Basketball player in the American Basketball Association (ABA and National Basketball Association
After the 1976 season, the ABA ceased operations with Kentucky and two other teams folding. Athletics For an extensive coverage see 1976 in athletics (track and field Marathon May Dampier was selected by the San Antonio Spurs (one of the four teams to merge into the NBA) in the dispersal draft. A dispersal draft is a process in professional sports for assigning players to a new team when their current team goes out of business consolidates with another team or for some other Playing mostly as a role player behind George Gervin, Dampier averaged 6. George "The Iceman" Gervin (born April 27 1952 in Detroit Michigan) is a retired American professional Basketball player a Shooting guard 7 points in 232 NBA games.
Dampier later served as an assistant coach with the Denver Nuggets. The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado.
Several divisions in the new ABA were initially named after stars of the old ABA, including Dampier. Today the league has three divisions—Red, White, and Blue. The basketballs used in both the old and new ABA are of these three colors.
References
- ^ a b (1994) The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia,. Villard Books, pp. 208-209. ISBN 0-679-43293-8.
- ^ 30 Year ABA All-Time Team. Retrieved on 2008-06-05. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem
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